EDN

Wide Bandgap Semiconductors Go Beyond Silicon in Power, RF, LED Lighting, and Optoelectronics

High performance-to-price-ratio GaN-based power and RF devices should see implementations in IT, communications, industrial, and consumer electronics, as well as make inroads into more general ...
EDN

RF energy: Measurements improve cooking, lighting, and more

This article is part of EDN and EE Times’ Hot Technologies: Looking ahead to 2017 feature, where our editors examine some of the hot trends and technologies in 2016 that promise to shape technology ...
Electronic Design

Here Comes the Solid-State RF Energy Evolution

When two competing technologies approach cost parity, the better performing technology will always win out in the market. This is an accepted truism throughout the embedded electronics and ...
Business Wire

Cree Unveils New Gallium Nitride (GaN) RF MMIC Process Technologies to Enable Lower Cost, Higher Performance Telecommunication and Radar Systems | Business Wire

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces the qualification and production release of two new GaN processes: G40V4, a 0.25µm process with operating drain voltage up to 40V, ...
Ars Technica

Freevolt: Perpetual, free RF energy harvesting to power the Internet of Things

LONDON—Lord Drayson (i.e. Paul Drayson), the UK’s former Minister of Science, CEO of Drayson Technologies, and head of the Drayson Racing team, this morning unveiled a rather wondrous new technology: ...
Electronic Design

Pulsed RF Power for Angstrom-Scale Processes

Challenges like higher selectivity and precise etching are critical for angstrom-scale IC production. Advanced RF pulsing and plasma control enhance precision in sub-nanometer processes. New impedance ...