Listed companies in Japan saw average pretax profits rise 2% on the year in the April-June quarter, despite April’s consumption tax hike. Automakers and consumer electronics companies were among the top performers in a Nikkei pretax ...
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University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used photo-electro-chemical etch (PEC) to create 405nm-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [C. ...
Beyond all of the hype and tumult, market drivers and technological developments are converging to ensure a bright future for silicon photonics, according to the ‘Silicon Photonics 2014’ report from Yole Développement. ...
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The European semiconductor distribution industry continues to deliver good news. According to DMASS (Distributors’ and Manufacturers’ Association of Semiconductor Specialists) semiconductor distribution sales in Q2/CY14 grew by ...
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Researchers from Ohio State University (OSU) and University of California–Irvine (UCI) have developed a band engineering technique to improve the results from photo-electro-chemical (PEC) etch of nitride semiconductors [Prashanth ...
IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has checked out, and the American people have noticed. Three-quarters of Americans doubt the federal government will address the important problems facing the country this year, according to a new Associated ...
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A team of chemists from New York University and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices called supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat ...
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Singapore's Nanyang Technological University and Turkey's Bilkent University have developed a graded multiple quantum well (MQW) structure with the aim of increasing light output power and reducing efficiency droop in 450nm indium gallium ...
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The rapid development of miniaturized portable electronic devices, such as micro-electromechanical systems, microrobots and implantable medical devices, has stimulated intense demand for micro-scale power sources. Although miniaturized ...
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Those involved in peddling counterfeit components have done their business with relative impunity. But the successful prosecution of a perpetrator in the US may mark the beginning of some law and order in the rampant illegal counterfeit ...
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Warren Buffett popularized the notion of investing in "cigarette butt" stocks. That is, extracting one last "puff" of value out of discarded stocks trading below liquidation value. Well, get ready to put a new spin on the term. Based on ...
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A couple years ago Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an offhand remark that he thought capacitors — rather than batteries — might be the energy storage tech to deliver an important breakthrough for electric transportation. Tesla ...
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THE Goodwood Festival of Speed is rapidly becoming Britain’s de facto national motor show. Its backdrop, Goodwood House, is home to the Dukes of Richmond, the first of whom acquired his title by the clever expedient of being an ...
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As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene.Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is ...