Honeywell
30 June 2025

CSconnected names first recipients for £1m Supply Chain Development Programme

Awards aim to strengthen and scale compound semiconductor supply chain in South Wales

30 June 2025

US-based GlobalFoundries investing extra $3bn for R&D on silicon photonics, advanced packaging and GaN

Total raised to $16bn, following $13bn announced last November to reshore chip manufacturing and accelerate AI growth

30 June 2025

UIUC reveals ‘efficiency cliff’ when LEDs are scaled to submicron dimensions

Peak external quantum efficiency stable from 20µm to 2µm but falls 70% down to 250nm

26 June 2025
AlYN-barrier GaN HEMTs for next generation devices
Researchers demonstrate low subthreshold swing and high on/off current ratio
26 June 2025

IKZ, PVA Tepla and Siltronic project to provide 4” AlN for power electronics and UV photonics

PVT growth of AlN to be scaled up from 2-inch diameter

26 June 2025

EFFECT Photonics raises extra $24m in Series D funding round

Total Series D round amounts to $62m

26 June 2025

BluGlass closes share purchase plan, raising a further $5.3m

Funds to be used to fulfil new and existing contracts, additional fab equipment, and working capital

25 June 2025

ELENA project develops Europe’s first LNOI substrates for photonic integrated circuits, completing supply chain

Open-access commercial LNOI photonic foundry CCRAFT created at Switzerland’s CSEM

25 June 2025

Silvaco and Fraunhofer ISIT collaborate on developing GaN device technology

Silvaco’s Power Devices Solution to perform design technology co-optimization

24 June 2025

MIT-led team develops low-cost, scalable process for integrating GaN transistors onto silicon CMOS chips

Intel 16 22nm FinFET metallization and passive options enable incorporation of components such as neutralization capacitors

24 June 2025

PhotonDelta and Luminate NY collaborate on transatlantic growth network for photonics startups

Partnership to accelerate global photonics innovation by giving firms access to programs for technology development, production, coaching, funding and go-to-market strategies

24 June 2025

CSA Catapult to mobilize new UK Semiconductor Centre

Centre backed by £19m in government funding and to have office site accessible to UK’s semiconductor clusters and international visitors

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News Features
12 June 2025
Tracking down sources of efficiency droop
Researchers modify ABC model to extract impacts of Auger–Meitner recombination, charge polarization, and junction temperature.
5 June 2025
Monolithic HEMT-micro-LED integration
Researchers reduce on-resistance by using a simplified fabrication process.
22 May 2025
High-breakdown normally-off gallium oxide transistors
Researchers claim record for β-Ga2O3 MOSFETs on silicon substrate.
15 May 2025
Mass production QF-HVPE of GaN-on-GaN system
Researcher claim record mobilities of 1591cm2/V-s and 18,175cm2/V-s at room temperature (295K) and low temperature (35K), respectively.
8 May 2025
Reducing thresholds for L-band quantum dot laser diodes
Researchers claim record low 69A/cm2 threshold per QD layer
2 May 2025
First post-process diamond on GaN HEMT
Top-side heat extraction an alternate path for thermal management.
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31 May 2025

RISC processor based on 2D semiconductor FETs
Researchers combine 5900 MoS2 transistors in a 32-bit device.

31 May 2025

Toshiba and Global Power Technology accelerate SiC power device patent filings
Over 840 new patent families filed globally in Q1/2025, says Knowmade.

31 May 2025

ALE surface treatment for AlGaN Schottky barrier diodes
Using an atomic layer etching process significantly increases breakdown voltage and reduces current leaks.

31 May 2025

Enhancing GaN diode performance with p-oxides
Combining p-NiO and p-LiNiO yields low on-resistance and high breakdown voltage.

31 May 2025

First post-process diamond on GaN HEMT
Top-side heat extraction provides an alternate path for thermal management.

31 May 2025

GaN HEMT hits 85.2% PAE record at 2.45GHz
Fujitsu reduces the silicon and carbon contamination on free-standing substrate surface and in channel layer.

31 May 2025

Reducing thresholds for L-band quantum dot lasers
Researchers claim record low 69A/cm2 threshold per QD layer.

29 April 2025

Indium arsenide quantum dot VCSELs on InP(311)B substrate
Sony/NICT researchers claim first demonstration with communication and 3D sensing potential.