South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd (SSC), together with its affiliate company Seoul Viosys Co Ltd, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the US District Court for the Central District of California against global retail ...
Tags: SSC, Seoul Viosys, Kmart
Researchers in Russia have developed an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum well laser diode on (001) germanium-on-silicon 'virtual substrate' without offcut angle [V. Ya. Aleshkin et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p061111, 2016]. ...
Tags: InGaAs, Laser diodes, III-Vs-on-Si
A team of researchers at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates has developed a new solar photovoltaic 'step cell' that combines two ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received an order for its 25th GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. Introduced in August 2013, the GENxplor system is said to be ...
Tags: Veeco MBE, GENxplor system
Under a four-year, $2m grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Qiang Lin, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the University of Rochester's Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, will lead a ...
Tags: SiC Quantum computing
Tokyo-based equipment maker Disco Corp has developed the KABRA (Key Amorphous-Black Repetitive Absorption) laser ingot slicing method. Implementing the process is said to enable high-speed production of silicon carbide (SiC) wafers, ...
Tags: SiC, Disco Corp, laser ingot slicing method
By optimizing the material growth and manufacturing process, researchers at the China Academy of Engineering Physics' Research Center of Laser Fusion and the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics in Beijing have nearly ...
Tags: Cascade Laser, ceramics
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
Tags: semiconductors, Electronics
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received the first order from a Chinese customer for its GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. Nanjing University is scheduled to ...
Researchers at a Belgian university have found a new method to check cocoa butter crystallization during chocolate manufacturing by using ultrasound waves, to ascertain the quality of chocolate. The quality of chocolates mainly depends on ...
Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a group of researchers has synthesized a stack of atomically thin monolayers of two lattice-mismatched semiconductors (Xufan Li et al, 'Two-dimensional GaSe/MoSe2 ...
Researchers from the University of Sheffield have partnered with technology company Novalia to develop electronic screens and then attaching it to paper-based packaging to display information. The move is claimed to revolutionize the ...
In 2014, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of the gallium-nitride-based blue-light LED and its use for new, efficient LED-based white lamps. The development efforts in this field, however, do not stop there. The ...
Tags: LED, Nobel Prize
'Learning Resources are at the forefront of STEM learning in the classroom, providing colourful, simple tools that support skills from scientific exploration and engineering to physics and coding,'says Learning Resources. Learning ...
At the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara (1-3 March), SoraaLaser of Goleta, CA, USA (which is commercializing visible laser light sources for display, automotive and specialty applications) is presenting its light source ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN