The four partners BRAIN, the Hohenstein Institute, Kelheim Fibres and rkona, announce the formation of a new research alliance for the biotechnical production and modification of specialty alginates. The aim of the alliance is to establish ...
Tags: alliance, Microbial, production, application, biopolymer
Modern power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) enable power electronic switches to operate at much higher switching frequencies compared with those based on silicon (Si). Advantages include increased power density per volume and ...
Tags: Fraunhofer ISE, Electrical, Electronics
To increase the efficiency of voltage converters and minimize heat losses, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF in Germany are developing transistors based on gallium nitride, characterized by low ...
Tags: IAF FBH, Electrical, Electronics
cynora GmbH and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) jointly announce the successful launch of Project cyFLEX. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) will serve as a basis for generating flexible and luminescent surfaces for smart ...
Tags: Luminescent Packaging, Lighting
Tridonic Dresden, the former LEDON OLED lighting, and Franhofer COMEDD are presenting a desk luminaire with flexible OLED at the Plastic Electronics 2013. The product is the result from a joint OLED project R2flex that was focused on the ...
Tags: OLED Desk Luminaire, Lighting
Product roadmap unveiled ahead of Frankfurt Motor Show later this month. Osram says that it will start offering organic LED products for automotive lighting applications as soon as 2014, and expects series production of vehicles ...
Tags: Osram, OLED Deployment
The cyCESH Project supported by the BMBF (Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research) explores new functional materials for printed OLEDs for lighting applications. BMBF launched the project cyCESH involving cynora GmbH, Novaled ...
Tags: OLEDs Lighting, LED, Lights, Lighting
Covering a roof or a facade with standard solar cells to generate electricity will change a building’s original appearance—and not always for the better (this idea to coat buildings with graphene kicks the problem up another ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Facade Design
Transparent and translucent ceramics are on the verge of being put to industrial use as new optical materials that offer great potential. As part of the publicly funded research project OptokeraMat, SCHOTT Research and Development has laid ...
Tags: Schott Developers, LED Technology
In an industry project with concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany is developing a new generation of multi-junction solar cells ...
Tags: solar cells, Electrical, Electronics
With 418 exhibitors, AchemAsia has opened in Beijing on Monday morning. Until Thursday, companies from 23 countries present on 6,500 m? the latest for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry as well as related sectors. The exhibition ...
Tags: Process Industry, Process
Evonik has developed a patented biotechnological green production process based on the fermentation of a nonconventional yeast called Wickerhamomyces ciferrii (formerly known as Pichia ciferrii). This yeast produces high amounts of the ...
To help improve the performance of laser systems while reducing production costs, Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany is coordinating the project IMOTHEB (Integrated microoptical and microthermal elements for diode lasers ...
Tags: IR Laser Sources, Osram, Lighting
The aim is to increase the performance and lower the costs of laser systems for material processing As part of the ‘Integrated Microphotonics’ initiative, Osram Opto Semiconductors is coordinating the IMOTHEB project ...
Tags: BMBF project, Semiconductors
Eleven German companies and research institutions have completed the So-Light project, supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research. An OLED project supported to the tune of EUR 14.7 million (US$19.88 million) by the German ...
Tags: OLED materials, OLED lighting, OLED, lighting