Semiconductor Today: December 2008 / January 2009 Issue

Dec 2008 / Jan 2009 issue

News:
GaAs device market to shrink 5% in 2009 • Optical transport equipment market to shrink 10% in 2009 • GaAs RFIC makers cut Q4 guidance; RFMD cuts 250 jobs • TriQuint launches PowerBand transistors; doubles size of North Carolina Design Center • HRL demos first RF graphene FETs • UCSD reports 58% PAE for base-station power amplifiers • Fujitsu reports record 320W C-band PAs • Showa Denko acquiring ESICAT’s SiC epiwafer business • SDK forms China ammonia JV • OIPT postpones relocation 2 years • Aviza increases gross margin after restructuring • Rubicon amends Peregrine agreement • Cree boosts white LED to 161lm/W • Russian LED lighting JV buys OptoGaN • Sharp and Nichia agree LED & laser cross-licensing • Ge/Si yields record 340GHz gain-bandwidth product for APD • Gemfire restarts operations • GigOptix completes Lumera merger • JDSU takes Bookham, Syntune and Cyoptics to ITC • Finisar’s storage growth offsets Optium’s CATV downturn • Emcore revenues shrink 20% after PV order push-outs • Concentrix inaugurates 25MW CPV module line • Johanna Solar starts CIGSSe PV module production • Global Solar opens German CIGS plant

Technology Focus:
Probing hydrogen’s impact on ZnO

Technology Focus:
Nanowire transistors, lasers and hetero-engineering

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5 January 2009

AXT expects Q4/2008 revenue down 27% on guidance

Inventory reductions lead to order push-outs in November/December.

5 January 2009

LED lighting could save $1.8 trillion over 10 years

Control of spectrum, polarization, temporal and spatial modulation to also enable applications.

5 January 2009

Princeton reports new lasing mechanism in quantum cascade laser

High k-space second beam promises high-efficiency, non-equilibrium lasing.

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6 January 2009

Cree’s LR24 recessed LED luminaires being installed in Pentagon

6 January 2009

Global Access and Infinera complete Japan’s first 100GbE demo

6 January 2009

Advanced Photonix to supply 40Gb/s receivers to transponder maker

5 January 2009

AXT renews GaAs substrate deal with IQE for up to $14.3m

5 January 2009

Emcore shareholder files class action lawsuit

5 January 2009

Light Blue Optics recruits VP of sales & marketing

5 January 2009

SMI licenses SiC MOCVD technology from Veeco

2 January 2009

Mimix launches 1.6GHz 30W power amplifier module

2 January 2009

Cree elects GlaxoSmithKline’s Ingram to board

2 January 2009

SiGe grows 42% to record revenue and shipments in 2008

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29 November 2008

Solutions don’t solve droop controversy
InGaN LEDs suffer a nasty fall-off in efficiency as the current through the device increases. Although some companies say they have solved the problem, debate about the cause continues. Dr Mike Cooke reports.

4 November 2008

Powering up GaN MOSFETs
In the past few years a new application for nitride semiconductors has been developing for high-power radio/microwave frequency amplifiers based on high critical field and carrier mobility properties. Dr Mike Cooke reports on progress.

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21 November 2008

Senior MOCVD Process Engineer - Solar Cells

IQE plc, Cardiff, UK; Bethlehem, PA, USA; or Somerset, NJ, USA.

7 November 2008

Laboratory Engineer or Technician

Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich), Switzerland.

7 November 2008

Research Scientist in Gallium Nitride Lasers

Tyndall National Institute, Ireland

7 November 2008

Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge position on “Structures with modified thermodynamic properties”

Tyndall National Institute, Ireland

7 November 2008

PhD position (PiFAS)

Tyndall National Institute, Ireland

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