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15 October 2024

Hamamatsu invests in SuperLight Photonics to drive development of wideband lasers

Hamamatsu CVC Europe business development manager David Castrillo joins advisory board

15 October 2024

Wolfspeed announces $750m in proposed funding from US CHIPS Act plus $750m from investment group

Funding to support expansions; extra $1bn expected in cash tax refunds

14 October 2024

Planned 8-inch silicon carbide wafer fabs worldwide reach 14

ST, Onsemi, Infineon, Wolfspeed, ROHM, BOSCH, Fuji Electric, Mitsubishi Electric, VIS/EPISIL, Silan, UNT and FT1 all plan SiC plants

14 October 2024

Seoul Semi wins Unified Patent Court case against Expert e-Commerce

Sales ban, recall and destruction of products infringing ‘No Wire’ LED patent ordered in eight European countries

14 October 2024

Micro-LEDs maintain momentum despite Apple’s withdrawal

New advances needed in die technology, transfer equipment and micro-LED manufacturing.

11 October 2024

PhotonVentures Fund I receives €5m investment from Invest-NL

National financing and development institution joined by group of new private investors

11 October 2024

TriEye and HLJ unveil joint SWIR sensing and imaging solution

Collaboration demos CMOS-based SWIR sensors and 1135nm VCSEL technology

11 October 2024
Double V-pits enhance red InGaN LED internal quantum efficiency
Researchers report IQE value of 21.5%.
11 October 2024

Infineon and AWL-Electricity partner to improve wireless power

GaN transistors being used in MHz resonant capacitive coupling power transfer system

10 October 2024

UKRI grants £5.5m for new Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies Centre

REACT coordinated by University of Glasgow in collaboration with University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and CSA Catapult

9 October 2024

PhotonDelta launches engineering contest to drive photonic chip applications

imec, LioniX, SMART Photonics, PHIX Photonics Assembly, Epiphany and Bright Photonics to transform winning idea into reality

9 October 2024

Latest issue of Semiconductor Today now available

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News Features
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.
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.
Feature Downloads
9 October 2024

ETRI develops p-type selenium-tellurium alloy transistor
South Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute shows how it is possible to overcome the low mobility of p-type semiconductors while improving display refresh rates and power consumption.

9 October 2024

Magnesium intercalation in gallium nitride
Superlattices of 2D monolayers show record high strain, enhancing hole transport.

9 October 2024

TMAl reflow GaN-on-silicon for fully vertical electronics
Avoiding intentional AlN buffer growth enables high current flow through GaN/Si interface.

9 October 2024

Zinc oxide homojunction LEDs
Nanoparticles provide hole injection into a pn-junction.

9 October 2024

Strain-engineering for green LEDs on silicon
Using single AlN buffer increased internal quantum efficiency from 33% to 78%.

9 October 2024

Red/yellow InGaN micro-LED photodetectors for visual light communications
Researchers demonstrate high-data-rate reception from white LED transmitters.

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.