The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
Tags: LED Lighting, diode applications, Electrical
Curtin researchers have helped create technology that will make an autonomous car affordable to the average-income person within a decade. The ‘eyes and ears’ technology comprises a dozen different sensors installed in an ...
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Aaron Franklin has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry. Leaving IBM's research enterprise for a ...
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Three University of California, Riverside engineers are part of team recently awarded a nearly $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to characterize, analyze and synthesize a new class of ultra-thin film materials that ...
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Three University of California, Riverside researchers are part of team recently awarded a grant of almost $1.7m from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to characterize, analyze and synthesize a new class of ultra-thin-film materials ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at temperatures greater than 350°C (about 660°F). Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), their work could improve the ...
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At the 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu, Hawaii (9-13 June), a team at Purdue University, SEMATECH of Albany, NY, USA (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials ...
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At the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has reported what are claimed to be the highest-performing III-V metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs). The research ...
The Phone Oximeter is a smartphone app developed by two British Columbia scientists as an affordable solution for the measurement of oxygen levels in the blood, an important early warning sign for pre-eclampsia in pregnant women, and for ...
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POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada – which, through subsidiary OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT, USA, has developed the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic ...
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Researchers have created a new type of "ultracold" molecule, using lasers to cool atoms nearly to absolute zero and then gluing them together, a technology that might be applied to quantum computing, precise sensors and advanced ...
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Using an inexpensive inkjet printer, University of Utah electrical engineers produced microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information. This new technique, which controls electrical conductivity within such ...
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On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, according to new research. While individual nanotubes are ...
The hardness, crystalline structure and wide bandgap of gallium nitride (GaN) make it ideal for a variety of applications, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes that read blu-ray discs, transistors that operate at high ...
Tags: III-V Semiconductor, Laser
Living cells are ready for their close-ups, thanks to a new imaging technique that needs no dyes or other chemicals, yet renders high-resolution, three-dimensional, quantitative imagery of cells and their internal structures – all ...