25 July 2017

Riber reports first-half 2017 revenue up 80% year-on-year

Full-year growth target raised from 30% to 50% after first-half orders grow 92% year-on-year

25 July 2017

Skyworks’ quarterly revenue grows by a more-than-expected 20% year-on-year to $900.8m

Firm capturing more content per platform as design-win and new product pipeline expands

24 July 2017

Fujitsu achieves record output density with power amplifier for W-band GaN transmitters

GaN plugs below source and drain electrodes reduce internal resistance while InGaN back barrier layer controls current leakage

21 July 2017

US DOE awards Stion $1m for CIGSSe PV module efficiency R&D

New interconnection technology to improve efficiency and reduce panel cost

21 July 2017

Micro-LED-like displays and projection modules to be available in 2018

Breakthroughs in mass transfer of micron-size LEDs to display backplane yet to materialize

20 July 2017

US DOE awards SUNY Poly $720,000 ARPA-E grant to develop GaN-based power switches as part of PNDIODES program

Army Research Lab, Drexel University and Gyrotron Technology to co-develop GaN doping and annealing techniques

20 July 2017

IQE’s strong first-half revenue growth marks start of increased VCSEL wafer demand for mass-market consumer applications

Capacity expansion approved to meet higher-than-expected demand in second-half 2018; lease agreed for new premises and MOCVD system orders placed

19 July 2017

Five-junction solar cell yields module efficiency of 41.2%

GaAs-based triple-junction cell stacked on GaSb-based dual-junction concentrator cell by transfer printing

19 July 2017

GaN Systems completes investment round led by BMW i Ventures

Funding to be used to expand global sales and accelerate new product development

18 July 2017

Veeco CNT ships 500th ALD system to NCSU

Former Ultratech/Cambridge Nanotech business presents papers at ALD 2017

18 July 2017

POET focuses on proprietary Dielectric Hybrid Platform to accelerate revenue growth

Strategic partner sought to develop and commercialize monolithic GaAs platform after manufacturability challenges delay optical engine

17 July 2017

Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of High Pressure Physics now Ammono leaseholder

Collaboration to boost synergy between ammonothermal and HVPE GaN growth

17 July 2017

PLAT4M matures three silicon photonic platforms

Commercialization of technology accelerated by linking silicon photonic ecosystem

14 July 2017

GTAT launches SiC boule growth furnace addressing emerging demand for 6” wafers

Portfolio expanded to address rapidly growing power electronics market

13 July 2017

Amber quantum wells on indium gallium nitride pseudo-substrate

13 July 2017

Oxford Instruments using NPL’s non-destructive quality control method to commercialize wafer-scale fabrication of 2D molybdenum disulphide

Raman spectroscopy used to quantify defects in CVD-grown MoS2

13 July 2017

Manz orders sputtering systems from centrotherm’s FHR for CIGS solar module factories in China

centrotherm focuses on CIGS thin-film development partnership with Manz

12 July 2017

US-backed consortium AIM Photonics gains Mentor as newest tier-1 member

Software provider aims to unify the electronic and photonic design processes

11 July 2017

RF power semiconductor market growing at 9.8% CAGR from $1.5bn in 2016 to $2.5bn in 2022

GaN taking over LDMOS’ market share as 5G reshapes RF technology landscape

10 July 2017

Indian Institute of Science gets government approval to establish commercial GaN foundry

Centre for Nano Science and Engineering’s GaN-on-Si facility already producing transistors for researchers

7 July 2017

University of Twente develops record 290Hz-linewidth narrowband laser

InP-Si3N4 hybrid laser widely tunable over 81nm at 1550nm using LioniX’s TriPleX process