17 December 2018

Optical transceiver market grows 8% year-on-year in Q3/2018 despite localized headwinds

II-VI, Accelink, Innolight, Lumentum, Neophotonics and Sumitomo growing strongly, while Acacia and Oclaro still recovering from ZTE shutdown

17 December 2018

Emcore quarterly revenue rebounds by 42.5%, driven by larger-than-expected cable TV orders

Loss halved to $3.3m, despite R&D spending still being increased

14 December 2018

ALLOS’ customers confirm dynamic on-resistance of carbon-doping-free GaN-on-Si

Good dynamic Ron achieved with good crystal quality and extremely low leakage

12 December 2018

First Solar expects full-year revenue to grow to $3.25-3.45bn in 2019

Margins and profit to rise as OpEx is cut, despite Series 6 module ramp-up and plant start-up expenses

11 December 2018

Imec reports first direct growth of 2D materials on 300mm wafers

WS2-channel transfer process co-developed with SUSS MicroTec and Brewer Science

10 December 2018

Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available

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10 December 2018

Lumentum completes Oclaro acquisition

Oclaro board member Ian Small joins Lumentum’s board

7 December 2018

OSA develops 4W UVC LED water disinfection module

Collaboration with CiS, Fraunhofer IOSB and Xylem as part of ‘Advanced UV for Life’ consortium

6 December 2018

Lumentum’s acquisition of Oclaro receives anti-trust clearance from China

Acquisition expected to close on or around 10 December

6 December 2018

China’s Hongli Zhuihui and European distributor Selectronic collaborating with Epistar

Hongli to buy $75m of Epistar LED chips to produce automotive lighting products

5 December 2018

Gallium oxide trench Schottky barrier diodes with ultra-low leakage

5 December 2018

Finisar’s quarterly revenue recovers further

Targeted model for operating margin achieved earlier than expected

5 December 2018

CEA-Leti extends 300mm wafer line to open new R&D avenues for industrial partners

Memory, photonics, power electronics, 3D and quantum technology targeted

4 December 2018

IGaN and SilTerra demo D-MISHEMT using 200mm GaN-on-Si wafer on foundry CMOS process

IGaN to offer 100-200mm GaN-on-Si epi and 200mm CMOS-compatible GaN fabrication processes

4 December 2018

Mitsubishi Electric and University of Tokyo reveal new mechanism for enhancing reliability of SiC power semiconductors

Property of sulphur to capture electrons applied beneath gate oxide/SiC interface