Optical chip factory opened in Germany
15 April, 2008The last section of OSRAM’s new semiconductor plant has been opened in Regensburg, Germany, by Martin Goetzeler, OSRAM CEO, Dr Rüdiger Müller, CEO of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and Regensburg Mayor Hans Schaidinger.
New partner for memory and video processing circuits
11 March, 2008Glyn is extending its distribution program with memory and video processing circuits from Averlogic Technologies, a semiconductor company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan.
Semiconductor technology for future wireless home and office
27 February, 2008A transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60 GHz on the CMOS process has been announced by NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence.
Companies team up
15 November, 2007Semikron International and LS Industrial Systems Korea are teaming up to develop and deliver power electronic solutions for the industrial drives and consumer market.
Silicon revolution on the way
09 November, 2007Silicon nanocrystals and printed forms of silicon will transform electronics over the next decade with new memory, logic, photovoltaic and optoelectronic products enabled by this new technology reaching $2.5 billion in revenue by 2015, according to a report from NanoMarkets LC, a market research firm.
Rising demand for compound semiconductors
09 October, 2007RF Micro Devices has announced plans to expand its compound semiconductor manufacturing capacity to support growth expectations in the company's cellular and multi-market product groups.
Arrow Asia Pac Ltd distribution agreement
04 October, 2007Arrow Asia Pac Ltd has signed a distribution agreement with Diodes Incorporated, manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application-specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets. The agreement is an extension to Diodes’ long-term partnership with Arrow Electronics.
Technique may speed development of molecular electronics
18 September, 2007To produce materials for modern electronics, small amounts of impurities are introduced into silicon - a process called doping. It is these impurities that enable electricity to flow through the semiconductor and allow designers to control the electronic properties of the material.
Switchable two-colour light source on a silicon chip
06 September, 2007Silicon is an important material for electronic chips and processors, but it has a big drawback: as an indirect semiconductor, it hardly emits any light.
Speed bumps less important than potholes for graphene
03 September, 2007For electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes - single-atom defects in the crystal - they're killers, according to researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Thin film TEG harvests and converts waste heat into electricity
22 August, 2007Nextreme has developed a miniature, thin film thermoelectric generator (TEG) that converts heat directly into electricity.
New particle charges cuprate superconductor theory
02 August, 2007New fundamental particles aren't found only in particle accelerators, but can also be found hiding in plain pieces of ceramic, according to scientists at the University of Illinois in the US.
Chemists close in on molecular switch
31 July, 2007The electronics industry believes that when it comes to circuits, smaller is better and many foresee a future where electrical switches and circuits will be as tiny as single molecules.
Successful collaboration
23 July, 2007Universal Display Corporation and LG.Philips LCD have developed a flexible, full-colour, active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display.
Development agreement on advanced high-voltage CMOS process
23 May, 2007IBM and austriamicrosystems have announced the signing of a development agreement for an advanced high-voltage (HV) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology to be used in a range of consumer, automotive, industrial and medical applications.
