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Ultraviolet LED product maker Seoul Viosys Co Ltd (a subsidiary of South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd) has announced experimental results confirming that its Violeds technology sterilizes 99.99% of Omicron Variant (SARS-CoV-2 Variant: B.1.1529) in 1 second...

At the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC 2022) in Houston, TX, USA (20-24 March), gallium nitride (GaN) power integrated circuit firm Navitas Semiconductor of El Segundo, CA, USA and Dublin, Ireland will highlight technology for mobile fast chargers, plus expansion into higher-power markets including data-center, solar and electric vehicles (EVs)...

Photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser (PCSEL) firm Vector Photonics Ltd of Glasgow, Scotland, UK has appointed Anna O’Dowd as design engineer, responsible for the simulation development for the firm’s all-semiconductor PCSEL devices...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany is launching power semiconductors with CoolSiC MOSFET and .XT technology in the XHP 2 package, tailored specifically to the requirements of rail services...

Ultraviolet LED product maker Seoul Viosys Co Ltd (a subsidiary of South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd) says that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit with the Hague District Court in the Netherlands, seeking to enjoin UV LED products in European countries...

For its fiscal second-quarter 2022 (ended 31 December 2021), engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA has reported revenue of $806.8m, up 1.5% on $795.1m last quarter and 2.6% on $786.6m a year ago...

Gallium nitride (GaN) power integrated circuit firm Navitas Semiconductor of El Segundo, CA, USA and Dublin, Ireland has released its first annual sustainability report. As well as detailing the goals and progress of corporate initiatives to reduce its own greenhouse-gas emissions, the ‘Sustainability Report 2021’ highlights how the firm’s GaN technology supports global carbon ‘net-zero’ ambitions by reducing customers’ CO2 footprints and accelerating the evolution from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources and electricity-based applications...

POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada — a designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for the data-center and telecom markets — has entered into an agreement with Celestial AI of Santa Clara, CA, USA to provide multi-laser integrated external light source (ELS) modules using its advanced packaging platform based on the POET Optical Interposer. The agreement includes a contract for continued platform development, along with a purchase order for initial quantities of the modules...

CrayoNano AS of Trondheim, Norway – which develops and manufactures semiconductor components based on patented and proprietary nanomaterials technology – and LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan have signed an agreement to jointly develop next-generation UV-C LEDs for the disinfection market...

CrayoNano AS of Trondheim, Norway – which develops and manufactures semiconductor components based on patented and proprietary nanomaterials technology – has expanded its operations and established a branch in Taiwan, located in the city of Hsinchu (which has a well-established technology infrastructure and semiconductor community)...

Wise-integration of Meylan, France, aims to expand business in Asian markets for its gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors after announcing a new channel partnership with distributor and solutions provider EDOM Technology of Taipei, Taiwan...

For its fiscal third-quarter 2022 (ended 31 December 2021), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA — which designs and manufactures JEDEC- and AEC-Q101-qualified gallium nitride (GaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) for high-voltage power conversion applications — has reported revenue of $4.6m, up 129% on $2m a year ago...

Riber S.A. of Bezons, France – which designs and makes molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems and evaporators – has received an order for a Compact 21, 3-inch research system from professor Greg Salamo, director of Nanoscience and Engineering Institute at University of Arkansas in the USA. For delivery in 2022, this fifth Riber MBE system will complete the existing modutrac line. Apart from III-V nanoscale growths, the new reactor will also allow the study of epitaxial Si/Ge/Sn/Pb heterostructures focused on band engineering via Sn (tin) incorporation and strain manipulation...

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has awarded a contract to Gilbane-Exyte Joint Venture to build the Compound Semiconductor Laboratory – Microsystem Integration Facility (CSL-MIF) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory...

Vertically integrated LED product maker Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan (a subsidiary of Ennostar Inc) has launched comprehensive UVC LED sterilization integrated solutions with over 99.9% sterilization efficiency, noting that – since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – the demand for sterilization has surged, and the application of UVC LEDs has become more diverse...

Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA has shipped its 400G ZR+ QSFP-DD-DCO transceivers – claimed to be the first with 0dBm output power – to Windstream Wholesale for field qualification...

Fabless semiconductor company Cambridge GaN Devices Ltd (CGD) – which was spun out of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering’s Electrical Power and Energy Conversion group in 2016 to develop power semiconductors using gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon substrates – has launched ICeData, a project aiming to develop and commercialize a highly efficient GaN-based integrated circuit for use in data-center server power supplies...

For fiscal third-quarter 2022 (ended 1 January), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $1114m, down 11.2% on last quarter’s record of $1255.2m but up 1.7% on $1094.8m a year ago, and $9m above the midpoint of $1090-1120m guidance...

Integrated Compound Semiconductors Ltd (a spin off from the UK’s University of Manchester that designs, manufactures and tests RF and optical devices for 5G wireless, 10G/25G/100G telecom and datacom markets) has launched its VCS894.6-DP vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), designed specifically for atomic clock and quantum magnetometer applications...

A new report published by the Welsh Economy Research Unit at Cardiff University focuses on the contribution to the economy by the Wales-based compound semiconductor cluster CSconnected during 2021...