Following federal funds, BluGlass is eyeing GaN on silicon LED markets. BluGlass now hopes to take its remote plasma CVD process to LED and power electronics markets. [Credit: BluGlass] In July this year, Australia-based semiconductor process developer, BluGlass, won Aus$3…
Come 2020, US analyst business, Lux Research, predicts sapphire-based LEDs will still dominate a multi-billion dollar LED lighting industry. Compound Semiconductor finds out why. With LED lighting forecast to become a $80bn industry by the end of the decade, manufacturers…
June 10, 2013 From April 2012 to late March 2013, roughly 350 patent applicants related to AlGaN, InGaN and GaN were filed. These were by organisations based in Japan, Korea, USA and China Group III nitride semiconductors are recognised as having great…
Auger recombination could be responsible for the LED droop phenomenon Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and colleagues at the École Polytechnique in France say they have identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes LEDs to be…
Will hybrid silicon be the platform of choice for complex photonic integrated circuits? Compound Semiconductor talks to Martijn Heck from the University of California, Santa Barbara, to find out more. In 2006, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara,…
The U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), an industry-led collaboration headquartered in New York at the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), has partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to improve manufacturing processes…
The first experimental observation of a quantum mechanical phenomenon that was predicted nearly 70 years ago holds important implications for the future of graphene-based electronic devices. Working with microscopic artificial atomic nuclei fabricated on graphene, a collaboration of researchers led…
6 March 2013 Air-bridge to improve field-plate performance for nitride HEMTs Researchers in China and Canada have developed air-bridge field plates for nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) that increase the breakdown voltage and offer more stable performance at raised temperatures…
Leading III-V chipmakers, first-rate toolmakers and the most innovative start-ups grabbed the 2012 Compound Semiconductor Industry Awards. Winners of the CS Industry Awards 2012 were announced on Monday 12 March at CS Europe, one of the world’s leading compound semiconductors…
$30,000 Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes Awarded to Inventive Students at Three Leading Universities Video Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student Ming Ma has developed a new method to manufacture light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties…