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17 March 2025

BluGlass establishes Industry Advisory Board led by Steven DenBaars and Richard Craig

Advisory Board to provide strategic guidance on technology development, market positioning and commercial partnerships

17 March 2025

UK’s Universities of Cambridge and Southampton join PIXEurope pilot line consortium

Cambridge Graphene Centre and Southampton’s Cornerstone Photonics Innovation Centre gain up to £4.2m funding from UK government, match-funded by Horizon Europe

14 March 2025

Smartphone production grows 9.2% in Q4/2024 to 334.5 million units

Apple’s year-end production peak and China’s subsidy policies drive growth

14 March 2025

Navitas production-releases first 650V bi-directional GaNFast ICs and isolated gate-drivers

Single-stage BDS enhances efficiency, power density and performance in AC-DC and AC-AC conversion

13 March 2025
Full-color monolithic micro-LED displays
Pixels combine RGB sub-pixels via stacking and selective material etch and regrowth
13 March 2025

Norwegian drinking water utility testing UV-C LEDs in pilot project for large-scale water disinfection

Collaboration is AquiSense’s first large-scale utility project in Europe following company buyout

13 March 2025

NUBURU completes first acquisition step in defense and security sector

Initial 20% acquisition creates foundation to deploy laser technology applications

13 March 2025

UK can lead in power electronics for data centers, reckons CSA Catapult

Report highlights efficiencies from integrating compound semiconductors into power distribution networks

12 March 2025

EPC releases Phase 17 Reliability Report

Latest report introduces expanded lifetime models, mission-specific reliability projections, and new physics-based wear-out mechanisms

12 March 2025

Teradyne to acquire photonic integrated circuit test firm Quantifi

Acquisition to accelerate development of cost-effective, high-throughput test solutions for wafer-level, die/multi-die and co-packaged optical module testing

12 March 2025

Celestial AI raises $250m in Series C1 funding round

Funding accelerates commercialization of Photonic Fabric

11 March 2025

BluGlass boosts single-mode GaN laser chip output by 67% to record 1250mW

Near-single-frequency output quadrupled to 450mW in DFB-MOPA configuration

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6 March 2025
Aluminium nitride template strategies for brighter UVC LEDs
Up to 90% efficiency boost from nanolayer modification, growth-mode modulation, and indium-doping methods
27 February 2025
Crack-free low threading dislocation density AlGaN for sub-365nm UV
Lowest defect density claimed for Al0.2Ga0.8N grown on unpatterned sapphire.
20 February 2025
AlScN-barrier GaN HEMT with record high on-current
Epitaxial high-k insulator enhancement enables 4A/mm density.
13 February 2025
Gallium oxide JFETs reach beyond 10kV breakdown
Researchers claim the first report of 250°C operation and 3kV reliability data
6 February 2025
InGaN laser diodes on c-plane lateral overgrowth material
Researchers demonstrate improved performance on high-quality crystal regions covering up to 88% of wafer.
30 January 2025
GaN complementary logic circuit building blocks
Researchers claim breakthroughs for propagation delay and p-FET drain currents.
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3 March 2025

Fast gallium oxide MOCVD growth
Researchers achieve high mobility comparable to material grown at slower rates.

3 March 2025

Record-performance N-polar GaN Schottky barrier gate HEMTs on low-cost sapphire
University of California, Santa Barbara reports record large-signal gain and record power-added efficiency at W-band frequencies.

3 March 2025

Fully vertical GaN p-i-n diodes on silicon
Soft breakdown reaches 1200V with 0.48mΩ-cm2 on-resistance.

3 March 2025

Improving hole injection in deep UV LEDs
Researchers report 20% enhanced light output power and 6% voltage reduction at 40mA.

3 March 2025

Red InGaN LEDs on scandium aluminium magnesium
An alternative substrate could enable future development of full-color displays.

3 March 2025

Near-room temperature 8μm interband cascade lasers
Researchers believe that room temperature operation is within reach.

3 February 2025

Indium phosphide laser on silicon nitride photonic circuit
Micro-transfer printing integration achieves wavelength tuning over 54nm in the C and L bands.

3 February 2025

CSA Catapult outlines steps to create UK semiconductor ‘super cluster’ and drive long term growth and exports
Recommendations include a National Semiconductor Institute, a Semiconductor Challenge Fund, prioritizing UK semiconductors in public contracts, and skills plans.