4 December 2013

GaN-on-Si LEDs to grow at 69% CAGR from 1% market share in 2013 to 40% in 2020

Repurposing of 8" silicon fabs to take market share from sapphire and SiC wafers

3 December 2013

US LED and high-efficiency lighting market to grow at 10% annually through 2017

LEDs to grow fastest of any high-efficiency lighting product

2 December 2013

Sapphire substrate makers expanding production to meet LED lighting and smartphone demand

…but LED share of sapphire market falling from 78% in 2013 to 64% in 2014

30 November 2013

Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available

For key compound semiconductor business and technology developments, see latest issue

28 November 2013

Transphorm and Fujitsu to merge GaN power device businesses

Fujitsu taking stake in Transphorm; to establish new firm for mass production at Aizu-Wakamatsu plant

27 November 2013

TriQuint opens Korea design center

Supports closer product development collaboration with key global smartphone makers

27 November 2013

Soitec and SunEdison enter into SOI patent cross-license agreement

R&D to target products for SiGe, Ge or III-V high-mobility channels

26 November 2013

Limited area epitaxy applied to semipolar GaN laser diodes

Effects of misfit dislocations avoided, allowing true green LDs with wavelength 523nm.

26 November 2013

ZSW achieves 10.3% European efficiency record for kesterite solar cells

Simpler, printed process yields less costly, less complex CZTS cell production

26 November 2013

Spain’s IES-UPM reaches 39.2% efficiency with triple-junction CPV solar cell

Future optimization targets 42% at 1000-sun concentration

25 November 2013

First small-signal data from p-channel gallium nitride transistor

Opening up complementary logic for harsh environment applications.