23 June 2017

Umicore inaugurates metal-organic precursor production plant in Germany

Precious Metals Chemistry business unit’s TMGa and TEGa target semiconductor and LED markets

21 June 2017

Finisar reports record full-year revenue, but a 6% drop quarter-to-quarter driven by Chinese telecom OEMs

Growth to resume in October quarter, driven by 100G QSFP28 transceivers for hyper-scale data centers and VCSEL arrays for 3D sensing

21 June 2017

MOCVD market growing at 14% CAGR to 2021

Equipment utilization up in Asia Pacific, driven by LED lighting market

21 June 2017

CST Global leading Quantum Ring Single Photon LED project

Mass production of low-cost, single-photon LEDs targets next-generation network security

20 June 2017

Gallium nitride implanted current-aperture vertical electron transistor

20 June 2017

Custom MMIC expands partnership with X-Microwave

More than 35 MMICs added to modular simulation, prototyping and production system

19 June 2017

A*STAR develops manufacturing of hybrid silicon lasers for mass-produced photonic devices

New heterocore configuration and integrated fabrication process combines low-temperature SiO2 interlayer bonding with dual hard-mask, single lithography patterning

19 June 2017

GaN to drive its share of RF high-power semiconductor revenue to more than double by 2022

Overall RF high-power semiconductor market exceeded $1.4bn in 2016 despite wireless infrastructure sector continuing to flatten

16 June 2017

Sofradir developing 2048x2048 15µm-pitch SWIR detector for space observation

Collaboration with CEA-Leti and CEA-IRFU under ESA’s Near Infrared Large Format Sensor Array program targets fully characterized low-flux, low-noise ALFA prototype in first-quarter 2019

15 June 2017

Imec demos first sub-10nm germanium gate-all-around FETs

High-pressure anneal used to boost performance of both Ge FinFET and GAA devices

15 June 2017

II-VI Inc ramps production of 18W pump laser diodes for fiber lasers

Production capacity to be doubled by end-2017

15 June 2017

Imec achieves record-low source/drain contact resistivity for PMOS transistors

Shallow gallium implantation on p-type SiGe source/drain contacts then pulsed nanosecond laser anneal yields sub-10-9Ω.cm2 contact resistivity

15 June 2017

UV LED market growing at 34% CAGR from $288m in 2017 to $526m in 2020

South Korean and Japanese suppliers dominant, but Taiwanese blue LED makers turning to higher-growth UV LED market

15 June 2017

MIRPHAB pilot line to provide tailor-made spectroscopy solutions

EU-funded project to fabricate mid-infrared sensor devices for early adopters

14 June 2017

WIN develops GaAs PIN diode MMIC process on 150mm wafers

Flexible 3µm process targets high-frequency switch and limiter applications

14 June 2017

Imec develops 200V and 650V dispersion-free normally-off/E-mode power devices on 200mm silicon

Technology ready for prototyping, customized low-volume production and technology transfer

12 June 2017

Osram acquiring California-based LED supplier LED Engin

Purchase to boost Osram’s specialty lighting business

9 June 2017

Aixtron appoints Felix Grawert as new executive board member

Schulte and Grawert to jointly lead firm

7 June 2017

Improving isolation of gallium nitride transistors on silicon-on-insulator

7 June 2017

Seren Photonics and BluGlass collaboration results in successful semipolar GaN template process transfer

Phase 2 to focus on improving uniformity and yield

2 June 2017

Manz receives initial €64.3m downpayment as part of €263m CIGS PV order from Chinese partners

Manz’s sites in Germany, Slovakia and Asia working on orders