The “Hi-Q-LED” project funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has made pioneering advances with green LEDs, diminishing what is known as the “green gap” phenomenon—the significant drop in efficacy in the green spectral range. Conventional LEDs show a significant efficacy drop at wavelengths above 500 nm. Research activities in the framework…
Light-diffusing fiber teams up with laser diodes
Osram Opto Semiconductors and Corning Incorporated announce a co-marketing agreement to promote Corning Fibrance Light-Diffusing Fiber, a first-of-its-kind technology that embeds lighting into products using OSRAM laser diodes….
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The Internet of Things and opportunity
The “Internet of Things” tends to start a lot of silly conversations based on misconceptions about the topic. For starters, what “thing” are we talking about? If it’s a connected car, there might be a lot to talk about. If it’s a light bulb or a toaster, maybe not so much. Can we take a…
PDR indexer provides fast, maintenance-free indexing
Nexen Group, Inc. introduces the Precision Ring Drive Indexer (PRD) – a highly flexible, durable and efficient alternative to direct drive motors capable of 2x faster indexing than…
Semtech demonstrates next generation of HD video surveillance transmitters and receivers at Security China 2014
Semtech Corporation, a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced it will demonstrate its next generation of high performance, low cost transmitter and quad receiver chip sets for HD surveillance applications at the Security China 2014 Conference. The new chipsets, the GV7700 and GV7704, are based on Semtech’s High-Definition Visually Lossless CODEC (HD-VLC™)…
Robot speeds semiconductor tests
To meet the needs of the semiconductor industry’s engineering labs for better data collection and sample test throughput, Axis Robotics designed the MicroMax, a five axis semiconductor handler with industry standard 13 tray JEDEC stacker. The 13-tray capacity can be thirteen 0.400-in. thick trays or twenty-three 0.0225-in. thin trays. The handler requires a 0.060-in. or…
Keep fuel cells cool
Operating without moving parts, heat pipes are a thermal management technology used in military/aerospace and commercial applications because of their thermal efficiency, simplicity and reliability. The Therma-Base is a flat, ultra-thin heat pipe developed by Thermacore with the NASA Glenn Research Center under a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract. The titanium-water vapor chamber Therma-Base…
Semtech brings LoRa™ RF technology to Wi-SUN development platform for meter reading and industrial applications
Semtech Corp., a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced it has joined with other members of the Wi-SUN Alliance™ to produce a radio frequency (RF) development platform targeting advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and industrial applications. The development platform includes Semtech’s SX1276 Wi-SUN compliant RF transceiver that features its long-range LoRa™ technology, combined…
SatixFy integrates IP cores for advanced satellite Modem SoC Using Sonics On-Chip networks
Sonics, Inc., the world’s foremost supplier of on-chip network (NoC) technologies and services, today announced that SatixFy Ltd. is using SonicsSX® as the network fabric for integration of IP cores in its SX-3000 Satellite DVB-S2X/RCS2 system-on-chip (SOC). Israel-based SatixFy is addressing broadband satellite communications for the forthcoming High Throughput Satellite (HTS) era where wideband transponders…
SanDisk introduces its SanDisk Tech Assisted Refresh (STAR) for corporate environments
SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced its SanDisk Tech Assist Refresh (STAR) program for the company’s X-series line of client SSDs. This innovative new service provides corporate CIOs and IT decision makers with a hassle free solution for upgrading their fleet of employee laptops from slower hard disk drives to…
Progress on a thermally and electrically conductive die-attach film
AI Technology, Inc. (AIT) claims to have solved one of the technically more challenging problems in wafer level semiconductor packaging to achieve conductive die-attach film adhesive (DAF) of 20-micron thickness. While DAF adhesive at the wafer level is becoming more prevalent in die-attach for memory modules in precision bonding and thin packages, thermally conductive and…
HEIDENHAIN Corp Hires Skaer As Systems Product Specialist
HEIDENHAIN Corporation announces the new hire of Mark Skaer as Systems Product Specialist, ETEL. Of particular interest to the semiconductor and high tech equipment industries, ETEL’s motion stages…
Gripping gently with overpressure: The Bernoulli Effect
Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli discovered 250 years ago that a partial vacuum is created when a medium such as air flows past an object quickly. The…
Easy measurement of semiconductor stress
Some of the processes used in the manufacture of semiconductors create stresses in the substrates as well as the deposited film. These stresses can deform, crack, delaminate, or create shorts that render the semiconductors unusable. The Dektak XTL Stylus Profiler is a system you can use to check semiconductor quality. The latest version of the…
Mission Critical Applications Requires ‘Ironman’ Actuator
Life critical applications like ventilators, heart valves, military smart weapons platforms and high speed target tracking, require devices that possess indestructible ironman endurance and a guaranteed life span…
Atlas Copco completes acquisition of Edwards Group
Edwards is a technology and market leader in sophisticated vacuum products and abatement solutions. The products and services are integral to manufacturing processes, such as for semiconductors and…
Fairchild Semiconductors Integrated Smart Power Stage (SPS) Module
High efficiency and power density are critical factors that designers are challenged to provide within the shrinking available board space in next-generation server and telecom system power delivery…
Silicone Rubber Heater Technology
Durex Industries, a North American designer and manufacturer of heaters, temperature sensors, controls and systems, recently announced development of their Elastic Wrap Heater technology. Elastic Wrap Heaters are used in applications that require heating for freeze protection or to prevent condensation. Based on silicone rubber heater technology, lengths of the heater are coiled similar to…
Absolute Optical Encoders Achieve ±0.5 µm Accuracy
In some semiconductor applications, component “multitasking” can lead to axes collisions. Amicra Microtechnologies, a developer and manufacturer of precision assembly systems that bond and mount active/passive semiconductors, lenses, MEMS and processors for microelectronics and micro-optics applications in the automotive, telecommunications and information technology industries found a way to prevent such collisions. Its NovaPlus series machines…
EtherCAT: new device standard for semiconductor industry
The EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) released ETG.5003-1 device standard for the semiconductor industry. This standard has nine corresponding specific device profiles to aid engineers in the design of tools in the semiconductor industry. With these device profiles, EtherCAT can be used for more than just motion control, I/O, sensors, and gateways in semiconductor manufacturing machines.…
Protect Electronics with Silicones
by Rohit Ramnath, Master Bond Inc. Silicone compounds are used in thousands of electronic systems to seal, bond, coat, and encapsulate components, enabling them to perform reliably under challenging conditions. Formulators continue to improve silicones to make them easier to use and to offer a wider variety of properties. Since the 1980’s, the electronics industry…
Introducing SENTINEL Molded Foam Silicone Rubber Heaters
Durex Industries recently announced the product introduction of the SENTINEL Molded Foam Silicone Rubber Heater. In semiconductor equipment applications Durex Industries’ SENTINEL heaters offer the advances of improved thermal efficiency, higher process temperatures, and reduced system cost. Durex Industries developed this advanced heater technology, because Semiconductor Equipment Industry engineers need thermal solutions that meet specifications…
Fairchild Semiconductor’s New Motion SPM 5 Series
Designers of motor control systems need solutions that optimize efficiency and ensure maximum reliability under harsh application conditions. To meet this challenge, Fairchild Semiconductor developed the SPM 5 smart power module series 3-phase MOSFET inverter solution, providing designers an AC induction motor (ACIM) and Brushless DC (BLDC) motor inverter solution for motors up to 200W including…
Processors lead the way to better industrial PCs
Until now, new processor generations have generally been limited to office and home computers. It often took time for industrial PCs to play catch up in terms of performance and multimedia capabilities. This isn’t the case with the Automation PC 910 from B&R. This system was developed in close cooperation with semiconductor manufacturer Intel®, which…
Freescale Freedom development platform KL02Z from Newark element14
Newark element14 will now stock the Freescale Semiconductor Freedom development platform KL02Z evaluation and development tool, designed for the rapid prototyping of microcontroller-based applications. Featuring the new energy efficient Kinetis KL02 ARM Cortex-M0+ MCU, the KL02Z Freedom Development Platform offers design engineers 32-bit performance at the cost of traditional 8 & 16-bit MCUs, making it…