The US Department of Energy's (DoE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Tennessee, has improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride ...
Tags: Solar Cells, vacuum-seal
Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have arrived. The unsurpassed visual performance and slim form factors of OLED products have been warmly welcomed by consumers. You can find glass-based AMOLED (active-matrix OLED) displays in a range ...
After dropping for five consecutive weeks, ferrous scrap prices in eastern China remained stable for the second week following the recent increase in domestic rebar and seaborne iron ore prices. Platts assessed heavy melting scrap 6 mm ...
Tags: ferrous scrap, iron ore
The grid operators of Spain and France, Red Electrica de Espana (REE) and Reseau de Transport d'Electricite (RTE), have assigned cross-border capacity for full-year 2016, REE said in a note Friday. Following an expansion of cross-border ...
Hybrid optoelectronic devices based on blends of hard and soft semiconductors can combine the properties of the two material types, opening the possibility for devices with novel functionality and properties, such as cheap and scalable ...
Tags: LEDs Performance, LED
AlGaN/GaN and InAlN/GaN structures combine high electron mobility and high critical electric field strength and are excellent platforms for the production of next-generation RF and power electronics devices such as high-electron-mobility ...
Tags: LayTec, Metrology MOCVD, AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
Researchers in the USA have reduced current leakage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon to the level achieved for devices produced on much more expensive silicon carbide [Bo Song et ...
Tags: AlGaN, transistors, Silicon
Noise is an issue in optical telecommunications. And findings means of controlling noise is key to physicists investigating light-emitting diodes or lasers. Now, an Italo-Iraqi team has worked on a particular type of light source, called ...
Tags: QDLED, LED-backlighting, Current
Jiangsu Shagang Group, China's biggest scrap buyer, cut buying prices Saturday for the raw material by Yuan 30/mt ($5/mt), in response to a slide in rebar prices, a company source said. After the adjustment, Shagang will pay Yuan ...
Tags: Ferrous Scrap, Rebar
The “Seminar of the 20th Anniversary of the WTO”, jointly hosted by China Society for World Trade Organization Studies (CWTO) and the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), was successfully held in Beijing on ...
Tags: WTO, multilateral trade system, international competition
Daimler is considering the possibility of tie-ups with Apple and Google as carmakers realize that building next-generation autos entail inputs from telecoms and software experts. The rise of self-driving and connected cars has made ...
Researchers in the USA have developed vertical Schottky and pn gallium nitride (GaN) diodes on silicon with performance comparable to devices grown on much more expensive substrates [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor
The share of total global solar photovoltaic (PV) production capacity taken by conventional crystalline silicon (x-Si) solar technologies is forecasted to decline further, from 84.7% in 2014 to 78.4% by 2019, as they approach their ...
UK-based Noble Foods that supplies fresh eggs to the country’s retailers has selected Paragon Software Systems’ Integrated Fleets planning solution as its strategic modelling tool of choice. The Paragon software will be used ...
Tags: animal husbandry, Noble Foods, egg
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) module conversion efficiency to 18.6% aperture efficiency for a full-size module, as measured and certified by the US Department of ...
Tags: First Solar, Thin-film, photovoltaic CdTe