Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has laid the cornerstone of its new Center for High-Efficiency Solar Cells, which is financed by a total of €32.6m from the federal government and the state ...
Tags: solar cells, photovoltaics market
State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute says that associate professor of nanoengineering Dr Woongje Sung has been selected to receive $750,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop silicon ...
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At a roll-out event for customers and partners in Zurich, Flisom AG of Niederhasli, Switzerland – which has the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) as a technology partner – showcased its ...
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To keep pace with the dramatic size and weight reductions in laptop designs over the last 10 years, Navitas Semiconductor Inc of El Segundo, CA, USA has launched what it claims is the smallest 65W USB-PD (Type C) adapter reference design. ...
Tags: GaN Power, Laptop Adapter
As part of the Special Session program at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2017) in Cincinnati, OH (1–5 October), the Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based ...
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Patent Portfolios--6th in the Semiconductor-Manufacturing Sector and 24th Overall Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator ...
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PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private partners from the semiconductor industry, the US Department of Energy (DoE), national laboratories and academia — in early August selected Navitas ...
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International packaging and paper group Mondi has won two German Packaging Awards 2017 (Deutscher Verpackungspreis) in the “Cost Effectiveness” category for enhancing corrugated packaging efficiency. The competition - ...
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Systech International has showcased its serialization and authentication solutions at Institute of Packaging Professionals (IOPP) - Puerto Rico Chapter Conference, August 24, 2017 in San Juan, PR. Conference Highlights: Systech subject ...
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Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which makes chips for aerospace & defense, communications, data-center and industrial markets) has become a member of PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private ...
Oxford Instruments plc plans to increase personnel at its R&D base at Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and to leverage ITRI's R&D capacities to strengthen their cooperative relationship in technology ...
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Electronics and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSRL) under the Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has cooperated with Avertronics to develop a human-centric smart ambient lighting ...
Researchers in Russia claim “the first demonstration of an injection quantum well microdisk laser fabricated of III-V materials monolithically grown on silicon (001) substrate” [N. V. Kryzhanovskaya et al, Optics Express, vol. ...
Tags: silicon photonics, Lasers
A major bottleneck in the commercialization of micro-LED displays is the mass transfer of micron-size LEDs to a display backplane, according to ‘3Q17 Micro LED Next Generation Display Industry Member Report: Analyses on Mass Transfer ...
Audi has joined hands with Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, to find out what is important for making optimal use of time in a self-driving car. The company started the 25th Hour, a project that is aimed at studying how to make ...
Tags: Audi, Self-Driving Car