Applications

CPA Joseph F. Finn Jr. said he will offer NoblePeak’s intellectual property — including numerous patents related to germanium-on-silicon processing — fixed assets and inventory in a sealed bid sale at noon on Nov. 5. Noblepeak’s TriWave technology was billed as the first germanium-enhanced, CMOS image sensor technology, delivering sensitivity and resolution acrosss the visible, […]

To cope with continuing market growth, Epson Toyocom plans to invest up to 10 billion yen (US$120 million) in fiscal 2010 (from April 2010 to March 2011) to install new equipment aiming to maintain its leading market position, Yajima stated. As ASPs for crystal devices are likely to continue drifting down, Epson Toyocom will focus […]

The expansion is dedicated to high-quality manufacturing of system-level products based on ISSYS MEMS chips that are fabricated in its current cleanroom facility.  The expansion includes assembly lines, production laboratories, clean assembly/packaging rooms and calibration areas for both medical and industrial products. The new floor space also includes a combination cleanroom and Faraday cage for […]

SunPower Corp., a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced today that it has formed a special interest group (SIG) with distributed power control systems (DPCS) manufacturers SolarBridge Technologies and Tigo Energy, to set protocols within the solar industry to help lower total system costs. Members of this new […]

According to the company, wireless power supplies offer many advantages, including convenience, reliability, waterproofing property and dust prevention. This technology has found widespread applications in various fields, particularly cordless phones. TOKO has shipped a cumulative total of more than 12 million wireless power supply products. It expects to have them employed for small portable devices […]

With a TO-220-compatible footprint, Tech9’s 1 amp/24 VA buck-boost DC to DC power converter can be mounted vertical or horizontally on a circuit board. The units accept input ranging from 6 to 70 V while output remains constant (extended input range down to 4 V is available). Models can be ordered with 3, 5, 9, […]

RUSTON, La. — Dr. Long Que, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, has reported success in designing and fabricating a device that allows microscale electronic devices to harvest their own wasted energy. The work was described in a paper published in the September edition of Applied Physics Letters and has also caught […]

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov has been working on semiconductor heterostructures since 1962. His contributions to semiconductor heterostructure physics and technology, including investigations of injection properties, the development of lasers, solar cells, LEDs and epitaxy processes, have contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics, leading to receiving the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics […]

According to Sony, the SLD3237VF is the first blue–violet laser diode with a pulsed output power of 400mW or higher, allowing the use of a wider variety of optical components such as lenses and prisms and hence freer design of hardware. Picture: New 400mW-output laser SLD3237VF (left) and 350mW-output laser SLD3237VFR (right). Sony says that, […]

Founded in 1987 by president Katsuya Homma, in March 2009 Optrans acquired the operations and patented technology of the specialty microchip division of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Advanced Technology (NTT-AT) which, supported by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), had developed epitaxial crystal growth manufacturing technology as well as high-volume manufacturing of […]