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South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd has signed a ‘Standard Safety Design Agreement’ with the Seoul Metropolitan Government to enhance citizen safety in tunnels and underpasses throughout the city...

POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada — designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and light sources for the hyperscale data-center, telecom and artificial intelligence (AI) markets — has appointed Ghazi M. Chaoui PhD MBA as its senior VP of global manufacturing & digital transformation. An industry veteran of nearly 40 years, Chaoui recently concluded a multi-year assignment as chief procurement officer of Coherent Corp...

At its global headquarters in Morrisville, PA, USA on 16 May, Mitsubishi Chemical Group company Gelest Inc (which manufactures specialty silicones, organosilanes, metal-organics and acrylate monomers) has opened its new 50,000ft2 production facility in a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by company executives, local officials, and community members. The new building will increase Gelest’s production capabilities and support customer applications from microelectronics and medical devices to advanced thermal coatings and mobility. ..

For first-quarter 2025, POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada — designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and light sources for the hyperscale data-center, telecom and artificial intelligence (AI) markets — has reported non-recurring engineering (NRE) and product revenue of $166,760, up from $29,032 last quarter and just $8710 a year ago...

Tawazun Council (an independent government entity that works closely with the Ministry of Defence and security agencies in the United Arab Emirates), aerospace & defense company RTX of Arlington, VA, USA, and Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA, the world’s largest producer of ‘premium aluminium’, and the largest industrial firm in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish EGA as a new producer of gallium. EGA is equally owned by Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi and the Investment Corporation of Dubai, and is the largest company jointly owned by the two Emirates...

Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has completed separate exchange transactions pursuant to privately negotiated exchange agreements with the holders of all of its outstanding 3.75% convertible senior notes due 2027...

A new European project supported by the Photonics Partnership that aims to power the digital backbone of modern industry is laying the foundations for ultra-connected smart factories...

High-reliability power semiconductor solutions provider CISSOID of Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium and EDAG Group of Wiesbaden, Germany (an independent engineering services provider for the mobility industry) have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the development of next-generation silicon carbide (SiC) traction inverters for electric mobility applications...

In January, InnoScience (Suzhou) Technology Holding Co Ltd — which manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) power chips on 8” silicon wafers — and its subsidiary Innoscience (Suzhou) Semiconductor Co Ltd filed complaints (2024) Su 05 Minchu No. 1430 and (2024) Su 05 Minchu No. 1431 (regarding patent numbers 202311774650.7s and 202211387983.X) to the Intermediate People’s Court of Suzhou City in Jiangsu Province against Infineon Technologies (China) Co Ltd, its subsidiary Infineon Technologies (Wuxi) Co Ltd, and Suzhou Chipswork Electronics Technologies Co Ltd...

UK-based Space Forge Ltd, which is pioneering space-based advanced materials manufacturing and return technology, has completed its £22.6m (about $30m) Series A funding round (the largest Series A in UK space tech history)...

Gallium nitride (GaN) power IC and silicon carbide (SiC) technology firm Navitas Semiconductor Corp of Torrance, CA, USA has appointed Cristiano Amoruso to its board of directors...

Vacuum solution provider Busch Group of Maulburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany says that its brand centrotherm clean solutions of Blaubeuren, Baden-Württemberg will become part of Busch Group company Pfeiffer Vacuum+Fab Solutions of Aßlar, Germany. Effective September, the gas abatement systems previously offered under the centrotherm brand will be integrated into the Pfeiffer portfolio and be available under this name in the future, uniting the two members of the global Busch Group...

Finwave Semiconductor Inc of Waltham, MA, USA has announced a new $8.2m bridge investment round, led by Fine Structure Ventures, Engine Ventures, and Safar Partners, with strategic participation from technology partner GlobalFoundries. Finwave reckons that the new funding signals strong conviction from investors and industry leaders in the market potential of its unique GaN-on-Si technology as it transitions from a technology-centric innovator to a product-driven company...

At SID Display Week 2025 (13–15 May), fabless micro-LED company Porotech (a spin off from the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride at the UK’s University of Cambridge that has developed porous GaN material and has an R&D center in Hsinchu, Taiwan) is leading the ‘One-Stop AR Solution Alliance’ alongside key partners Foxconn, Rayprus, GIS, and Jorjin with a grand showcase in booth 1208 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center...

As it celebrates its fifth birthday, III–V Epi Ltd of Glasgow, Scotland, UK — which provides a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) service for custom compound semiconductor wafer design, manufacturing, test and characterization — says that it has demonstrated consistent growth, establishing its reputation as a trusted supplier of III-V epitaxial structures through MBE and MOCVD...

Midsummer AB of Järfälla, near Stockholm, Sweden – a developer and manufacturer of flexible, lightweight copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells and roofs for building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) as well as equipment for their production – has received an order worth SEK143.5m (€13.1m; US$14.8m) from a Swedish industrial and defense group for a turnkey production line for the manufacturing of thin-film solar cells...

Luminus Devices Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA — which designs and makes LEDs and solid-state technology (SST) light sources for illumination markets — has launched the CFT-50X Series, an extensive product line of high-performance LEDs designed specifically for medical, life sciences, and industrial applications. Available now through authorized distributors, the new series offers versatility, with 10 distinct SKUs spanning from UVA (405nm) to Red (638nm), meeting the demanding requirements of medical endoscopy, biophotonic, fluorescence microscopy and machine vision markets...

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system maker Riber S.A. of Bezons, France has received an order for a research MBE 412 cluster platform with an automatic wafer transfer system from a leading Australian research laboratory in order to advance its research in infrared (IR) technologies and to support the development of sovereign IR sensor capabilities in Australia...

NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA — which was founded in 2015 and develops and manufactures high-power industrial blue lasers — has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a Form S-3 Registration statement for $100m. This strategic move is designed to provide the firm with the necessary capital to facilitate the ongoing acquisition plan and relaunch its Blue Laser technology business unit...

Infineon Technologies AG of Munich, Germany is introducing the CoolGaN bidirectional switch (BDS) 650V G5, a gallium nitride (GaN) switch capable of actively blocking voltage and current in both directions. Featuring a common-drain design and a double-gate structure, it leverages Infineon's robust gate injection transistor (GIT) technology to deliver a monolithic bidirectional switch, enabled by Infineon’s CoolGaN technology. The device serves as a highly efficient replacement for traditional back-to-back configurations commonly used in converters...