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Headline News
12 March 2010
Taiwan’s Epistar entering mainland China LED manufacturing
Epiwafer and LED plants to be set up with Taiwan’s UMC and Lite-On.
12 March 2010
SiBEAM secures $36.5m in Series D funding
60GHz CMOS chipsets targeted at WirelessHD.
11 March 2010
Mitsubishi develops 25Gbps laser and photodiode for 100GbE
Direct-modulation DFB achieves 26% mask margin using 0.1W; 4x25Gbps photodiode responsivity hits 0.88A/W.
10 March 2010
Atlumin and Floridienne partner to supply and reclaim Cd-containing materials
CdTe and CIGS PV supply chain targeted.
10 March 2010
Aixtron reports 2009 revenue up 10% to a record €302.9m
Revenue to double to €600–650m in 2010.
9 March 2010
Solar installations to grow at 23% annually to 2015, but revenue to lag at 14%
Overcapacity-driven shakeout to shift focus from Europe to China.
9 March 2010
First Solar to supply PG&E with 300MW from 550MW Desert Sunlight plant
Power purchase agreement complements 250MW already under contract to SCE.
Other News and Products
11 March 2010
Showa Shell unveils 2nd-gen CIS PV panel with 16% cell efficiency
11 March 2010
RFHIC launches GaN pallet amplifier for LTE/WCDMA RRH systems
11 March 2010
Peregrine expands with European RFIC design, manufacturing and sales center
10 March 2010
Gain Microwave expands portfolio with high-power VCO GaN MMIC
10 March 2010
SemiSouth announces reference design for 1200V SiC FET
10 March 2010
Anadigics launches PAs for 4G LTE and 3G HSPA+
10 March 2010
Nitronex recruits Diane DuVall as director of North American Sales
10 March 2010
Riber wins Compact 21 MBE system order from IHP for graphene research
10 March 2010
Opnext demos single wavelength, real-time coherent 100G PM-QPSK modem
10 March 2010
Veeco introduces new AFM system
10 March 2010
Testar wins investment to expand LED chip testing services
10 March 2010
Avago launches miniature high-linearity wireless data PAs for WiMAX and WiFi
9 March 2010
Microsemi adds 1500W SiC RF power transistor for UHF pulsed radar
9 March 2010
OPEL and BETASOL secure Spanish feed-in tariff for 330kW HCPV solar farm
9 March 2010
5N Plus and Teck sign long-term supply agreements for Ge and In feedstock
9 March 2010
Osram’s OSTAR Compact LED targets light-guide-based daytime running lights using just two LEDs
9 March 2010
Advanced Photonix adds National Sales Account Manager for Terahertz product platform
Features
27 February 2010
SEI explains polarization clues to optimal GaN green laser stripes
Semi-polar [1014] direction preferred over [1210] for lower threshold current and longer wavelength.
27 February 2010
Producing more light than heat from quantum cascade lasers
QCL wall-plug efficiencies have been boosted from 35% to 40–50%.
27 February 2010
Dielectrics at the III-V logic starting gate
Focus shifts from demonstrating the benefits of high mobility and integration with silicon substrates to developing the gate stack.
5 February 2010
LayTec GmbH company profile
LayTec provides in-situ optical metrology systems for thin-film processes. The tools are used in a range of thin-film applications, such as compound semiconductors, photovoltaic, oxide and organic deposition.
Recruitment
Sales Engineer
k-Space Associates Inc, Ann Arbor (Dexter), MI, USA
2 December 2009
Crystal Growth Engineer (EFG, Czochralski, HDSM)
Rubicon Technology Inc, Franklin Park, IL, USA
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