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
Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
Tags: LED Light, LED lighting
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has been developing a hybrid technique to create III-nitride tunnel junctions (TJs) using a combination of metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and molecular beam epitaxy ...
Tags: Gallium Nitride Tunnel, Hybrid
A gypsum mine in Pingyi County, in east China's Shandong Province, reportedly collapsed on Friday morning. Many people are believed to have been buried in the mine, but the number of casualties is currently unknown. A rescue operation ...
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Over 50 World Trade Organization (WTO) members have reached agreement on phasing out tariffs on imports of 201 information technology products. The deal was announced at a WTO ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The ...
Tags: IT Product, Tariff Cuts, printers, cartridges
Everlight releases new transistor with reduced size for industrial applications. (Everlight/LEDinside) EVERLIGHT ELECTRONICS, a leading player in the global LED and optoelectronics industry, announces the introduction of two new single ...
A signing ceremony was held here Wednesday for China's donation of 1 million U.S. dollars in cash for quake relief in Afghanistan. A 7.5-magnitude devastating earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan in late October this year, leaving ...
Tags: quake relief, assistance
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
Instrument Systems GmbH Munich is a leader indeveloping and manufacturing high-precision light measurement systems. With the new offer of stray light correction during the calibration of array spectrometers, Instrument Systems now is the ...
Tags: Stray Light Correction, UV LEDs
Researchers based in USA have been studying performance improvements in aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) ultraviolet (UV) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) gained from using free-standing gallium nitride substrates instead of gallium nitride on ...
Tags: AlGaN, Ultraviolet photodetectors, HVPE
On November 2, the official of the Foreign Assistance Department of the Ministry of Commerce made comments on the emergency aid materials provided by the Chinese government to Afghanistan for combating the earthquake. On October 26, a ...
Heliospectra AB a lighting manufacturer for plant research and greenhouse cultivation, and American Cannabis Company, a full-service cannabis industry consultant and provider of proprietary and preferred products, have successfully sold one ...
Tags: Heliospectra, LED Grow Lights
When discussing the properties of LEDs, the word ‘color’ immediately comes to our minds; and there are so many facets to our perception of color! An important one is color consistency, which is really a blanket qualifier for a ...
Panasonic aims to increase its European lighting revenue in 2018, reported Kyodo News. The plan is to raise lighting revenue in Europe from JYP 30 billion (US $330 million) in 2014 to JYP 36 billion by 2018. Panasonic analyzed there is ...
Tags: Panasonic, European market, Lighting Revenue
For third-quarter 2015, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $68.7m, down on $114.4m a year ago, negatively impacted by continuing erosion in relevant underlying ...
Tags: chemical products, metal