Taiwan researchers have achieved a reduction in luminous efficiency droop from 42%to 7%by inserting p-type indium gallium nitride(p-InGaN)between the active light-emitting and electron-blocking layers of a nitride semiconductor ...
Cree, Inc. announces its latest silicon carbide (SiC) offering with low basal plane dislocation (LBPD) 100-mm 4H SiC epitaxial wafers. This LBPD material exhibits a total BPD density of < 1 cm-2 in the epitaxial drift layer, with BPDs ...
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Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has introduced low basal plane dislocation(LBPD)100-mm 4H silicon carbide(SiC)epitaxial wafers.This LBPD material exhibits a total BPD density of 1 cm-2 in the epitaxial drift layer,with BPDs capable of causing Vf ...
Spain-The Congress Palace(Ciudad de Oviedo),which has opened in the heart of Spain's Asturian capital,has already become a new symbol for its spectacular architecture. Designed by Valencia-born architect Santiago Calatrava,this visually ...
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Taiwan's manufacturers of machine tools,most of which are small or medium in size,have experienced substantial sales growth following the global financial crisis of 2009.Their exports grew a further 9.4%in the first half of 2012,to US$2.09 ...
Pinnacle Machine Tool Co.,Ltd.has launched feature-laden five-axis CNC machining centers to meet rising demand from high-end manufacturers looking to maintain precision production but reduce cost to be more competitive amid various ...
The U.S.Federal Aviation Administration is taking a new look at the use of portable electronics on airplanes,seeking public comments starting this week and forming a government-industry group to study when smartphones,tablets and other ...
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Triangular quantum well injection boosts nitride LED efficiency by 80% The State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technology of Sun Yat-sen University has reduced the forward voltages and increased the device efficiency of ...
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Switzerland-Gurten festival takes place annually on a clearing a top the Gurten foothills on the Swiss Alps by the capital city of Bern.The four-day festival originated in 1977.Access to the festival site up on the mountain is via one ...
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Macworld - Google Currents, the free news-reading app for iPhone and iPad, is elegant and useful. But the app from Google suffers from a perplexing failure to integrate more fully with Googles RSS-reading service. Like other news-reading ...
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Semiconductor and MEMS giant aims to integrate video-sharing devices within smart phones and laptops. Projector phone:Samsung's Galaxy Beam Swiss-headquartered STMicroelectronics,rated as the world's leading maker of ...
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Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale,CA,USA,a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits(PICs),is showcasing its DTN-X platform(claimed to be the ...
Italy-Lighting designer Aldo Visentin is using his own Jands Vista S1 lighting console running the next generation Vista v2 software,plus two Vista M1 Wings,to control lighting for tenor Andrea Bocelli. Visentin's creative relationship ...
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The 2012 Olympics begin this week,and some might be lucky enough to have tickets to one of the many sports being contested by the 205 participating nations.With London hosting the 2012 games,seeing the Olympics in person means a trek to the ...
Researchers at University of California,Santa Barbara(UCSB)have developed what is claimed to be the first violet nonpolar vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers(VCSELs)based on m-plane gallium nitride(GaN). The latest development is ...