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4 October 2024

UK project to facilitate secure quantum key distribution with high-performance OEM receiver modules

Phlux to provide Noiseless InGaAs APD sensors for four-channel single-photon avalanche detector

3 October 2024

HyperLight raises $37m in Series B funding round to accelerate product development and meet demand

Summit Partners’ CEO joins board of TFLN PIC firm

3 October 2024

Polar Light partners with Finetech to connect pyramidal GaN micro-LEDs

Cold compression aligns and bonds micro-LED arrays to indium pads on silicon back panel

2 October 2024

DARPA awards HexaTech AlN substrate development contract

Potential three-year $10.2m program for 100mm-diameter substrates

2 October 2024

Raytheon to develop ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductors for DARPA

Phase 1 to develop diamond and AlN films and integration onto electronic devices; phase 2 to optimize and mature technology on larger-diameter wafers for sensors

2 October 2024

NREL to design silicon carbide-based power inverters for US ground combat vehicles

SiC-based propulsion system to deliver four times power at a quarter of predecessors’ size

2 October 2024

BluGlass partners with Macquarie University and Aurizn on blue ocean subsurface temperature and depth mapping LiDAR project

Australia's Economic Accelerator grant to fund development of blue- and aquamarine GaN lasers

2 October 2024

Innovate UK details 16 projects receiving £11.5m of funding

Projects to improve UK semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains

1 October 2024

DENSO and ROHM consider strategic partnership on automotive semiconductors

DENSO to acquire ROHM shares to solidify partnership

30 September 2024

ASM launches dual-chamber PE2O8 single-wafer 8”-wafer silicon carbide epi system

Portfolio of single-wafer SiC epi systems extended from single-chamber 6” PE1O6 and 8” PE1O8 systems

30 September 2024
Lumileds demonstrates InGaN-based deep red LEDs with 7.5% wall-plug efficiency

True-red micro-LEDs to facilitate full-color displays for AR

27 September 2024
Hydrogen plasma passivation for blue laser diodes
Researchers claim the first use for a strategy resulting in enhanced power efficiency and thresholds.
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News Features
23 September 2024
Tunnel-junction-enabled GaN heterojunction bipolar transistors
Structure allows all contacts to be made with n-type GaN.
13 September 2024
Transfer-printed lasers on silicon photonics
Improved alignment from fabrication after transfer.
5 September 2024
DBR-free thin-film InGaN VCSELs
Device achieves lasing without lateral confinement under optical pumping.
29 August 2024
Micro-LEDs on freestanding GaN
Optimized MQW increased external quantum efficiency from 7.9% to 14.8% at 10A/cm2 injection.
23 August 2024
High-current vertical diamond MOSFETs
Researchers achieve drain currents above 1A by connecting two devices.
9 August 2024
Red/yellow InGaN micro-LED photodetectors for visual light communications
Researchers demonstrate high-data-rate reception from white LED transmitters.
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2 September 2024

Fraunhofer IAF uses MOCVD to fabricate aluminum yttrium nitride
Alternative to magnetron sputtering of AlYN opens up commercial applications of AlYN/GaN heterostructures.

2 September 2024

Gallium nitride HEMTs on 8-inch sapphire
Researchers seek to reduce production costs for devices with blocking voltages beyond 1200V.

2 September 2024

Etching-free pixel definition for InGaN micro-LEDs
Selective thermal oxidation proposed as viable alternative to plasma etch.

2 September 2024

Red InGaN micro-LED on silicon prospecting
Pioneers reach ultra-high 4232PPI resolution.

2 September 2024

Near size-independent UV-A micro-LED performance
Researchers claim record for on-wafer EQE from sub-10μm device.

2 September 2024

Comparison between MBE and MOCVD technologies
Richard Hogg, III-V Epi chief technology officer and professor of Photonics at Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT), and Dr Neil Gerrard, III-V Epi director of epitaxy, explore the III-V semiconductor synthesis applications that each epitaxial growth technology best suits.

5 July 2024

InP-on-insulator substrates for 2.1μm lasers on silicon
Ion-slicing technique could enable lower-cost production of optoelectronics.

5 July 2024

PCSEL emits at more than 300mW CW at 1550nm wavelength
Potential applications include communications and eye-safe LiDAR.