Soitec, a designer and manufacturer of semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, announced that despite the signature on May 20, 2015 of an agreement for the sale of a portion of its solar business (includ...  more

Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts has ordered two Veeco’s GENxplor™ R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Systems for cutting-edge compound semiconductor research. The MBE systems are expected to de...  more

Transphorm has secured fundamental patents in the area of Gallium Nitride (GaN) power conversion. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent number 8,816,751 titled "Ip" was granted August 26, 2014 and ...  more

New semiconductor materials could mean 50% less energy loss in switched-mode power supplies for PCs, flat-screen televisions, servers and telecommunications systems and could make solar inverters even more compact and cost-efficie...  more

Soitec (Euronext) and Shanghai Simgui Technology Co., Ltd. (Simgui), a Chinese silicon-based semiconductor materials company, have formed an international partnership to address both China’s growing demand and limited worldw...  more

Power Conversion Intelligent Motion (PCIM), Europe’s leading meeting point for specialists in Power Electronics and its appliances in Intelligent Motion, Renewable Energy and Energy Management, was held from May 20 to 22, 20...  more

Silicon semiconductor-based power electronics - which control or convert electrical energy into usable power – once transformed the computing, communication, electric vehicle and energy industries and gave consumers and busi...  more

Automobile sales in China are booming, with a 13 percent year-over-year gain for April 2013, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. At the same time, the amount of electronic content per vehicle continue...  more

  The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today announced an expanded working group project with the Volkswagen Group to establish an energy-efficiency benchmark for microcontrollers aimed at making automot...  more

  HyperSolar, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water, today announced that an overview of its patent pending technology using solar powered nano...  more