| 5N Plus to Open New Gallium Chemicals Facility in South Korea June 17, 2013...5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a specialty metal and chemical products company, plans to open a new gallium chemicals facility in South Korea to meet the growing demand for gallium in LED manufacturing in North-East Asia.
5N Plus offers purified metals such as bismuth, gallium, germanium, indium, antimony, cadmium, selenium and tellurium. The firm also produces II-VI semiconducting compounds... Air Liquide to Acquire Electronics Materials Company, VoltaixJune 17, 2013...Air Liquide of Paris, France, has signed an agreement to acquire Voltaix
Inc., a U.S.-based electronics materials company. The acquisition is expected
to close later this summer, pending applicable regulatory approvals. Air
Liquide, with its ALOHA™ product line, supplies precursors for
semiconductor manufacturing. Precursors are molecules with specific physical
and chemical properties that are used in depositing layers during fabrication
of microelectronic devices.
Voltaix is a manufacturer... Peregrine Semiconductor Completes Collaborative Sourcing and UltraCMOS® License Agreement with MurataJune 3, 2013...Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a fabless provider of radio frequency
integrated circuits (RFICs) based in San Diego, California USA, signed a
collaborative agreement with Murata Manufacturing Company. The agreement is a
multi-sourcing arrangement for RF switches based on Peregrine’s
proprietary UltraCMOS® technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Murata
will source a majority of its RF switching requirements from Peregrine in
exchange for a license to purchase... Element Six Acquires the Assets and Intellectual Property of Group4 LabsJune 3, 2013...Element Six of Santa Clara, California, a maker of synthetic diamond
supermaterials announced it has acquired the assets and intellectual property
of Group4 Labs, Inc. (Group4). Group4 manufactures Gallium Nitride (GaN)
on-diamond semiconductor technology for RF and high-power devices. Element Six
says that the asset acquisition will expand its semiconductor portfolio for
defense and commercial applications. The assets were acquired through an
assignment for the benefit... TriQuint Semiconductor Expands Gallium Nitride OfferingsMay 29, 2013...Hillsboro, Oregon-based TriQuint Semiconductor, a leading RF solutions supplier, announced 15 new gallium nitride (GaN) amplifiers and transistors along with two new GaN processes. The company says that these products offer performance, size and durability advantages for communications, radar and defense RF systems. TriQuint innovation will be displayed at the IEEE IMS / MTT-S convention and exhibition in Seattle, Washington,... Aristotle University and Aixtron Collaborate on SMARTONICS ProjectMay 28, 2013...Aixtron of Aachen, Germany, announced that it will collaborate with
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the European SMARTONICS project started
in January 2013. The project’s main focus is to propel market penetration
of organic electronics. The SMARTONICS consortium consists of eight industrial
partners, four research institutes, and six universities, spread widely across
Europe.
The goals of the SMARTONICs project include: the development of smart
nanomaterials for organic... ORNL Researchers use X-Ray Diffraction Analysis to Study Nanocrystals for LEDsMay 28, 2013...Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are reportedly using x-ray
diffraction analysis to help understand tiny crystals that could be used in
warm white LEDs. The team's most recent study is published as the inside front
cover article in the April 25 issue of Advanced
Functional Materials.
The researchers note that developing an LED that emits a broad spectrum of
warm white light on par with... NeoPhotonics Opens Sales and R&D Office in MoscowMay 20, 2013...NeoPhotonics Corporation announced the opening of a Sales and R&D office
in Moscow and servicing the Russian Federation and the broader eastern European
market.The company is a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic
integrated circuit, or PIC, based optoelectronic modules and subsystems for
bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks.
Tim Jenks, Chairman and CEO of NeoPhotonics commented, “Together
with our expanded sales force serving the region, this...
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