Using a triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor solar cell (in which three photo-absorption layers are stacked together, Japan’s Sharp Corp has surpassed its record for energy conversion efficiency in research-level ...
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Boeing Company subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA has introduced 150mm-diameter germanium wafers into production (50mm larger than its prior 100mm wafers). The 50% increase in wafer diameter allows more than 2.5 times more gallium ...
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Don't set your Google Inactive Account Manager just yet, but there are billions of tons of solar matter hurtling toward the Earth at more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) per second. NASA estimates the plasma will hit our atmosphere late ...
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Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden has unveiled SolInk, a nanomaterial that promises to boost the efficiency of crystalline silicon or thin-film solar modules by up to 25%, leading to solar power plants and rooftop solar ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), says that its UltraCMOS phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer and prescaler ...
UK - BBC Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton has done many things to raise money for charity such as trekking the South Pole and this year she is getting the public and viewers involved by helping her complete Helen's Magnificent 7 for Comic ...
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Turkey - Digiturk is Turkey's largest digital subscription entertainment platform with more than 2.5m subscribers. They required a top quality sound system for their newly renovated multifunction screening room and a key requirement to the ...
A cable assembly is defined as a set of wires with supporting components such as a connector, handle, retention system, or shielding. Cable assemblies are used in just about any application where information or signals need to be ...
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufacturers compound semiconductor-based systems for fiber-optic and solar power applications, says that its solar panels are powering the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite that ...
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CORNING — Perhaps the most famous artifact at the Corning Museum of Glass is the first failed cast for the giant mirror blank the company made 80 years ago and which is still used in the deep space telescope at Mount Palomar ...
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Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, has reported improved results for fiscal first-quarter 2013 (ending 28 December 2012). Revenue was $453.7m, up nearly 8% on last quarter’s $421.1m and 15% on ...
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission, the newest addition to NASA's 40-year mission monitoring Earth from space, blasted into orbit atop this Atlas V rocket yesterday. The successful launch ensures observations will continue uninterrupted ...
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Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid’s (UC3M) Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (GIAA) and the Systems Intelligence Laboratory (LSI) have jointly developed a new technology, which is aimed at enhancing car GPS accuracy ...
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UK - West London-based rental company, Entec Sound & Light were asked to supply lighting, trussing and rigging for a high profile one off concert by Malaysian Chinese superstar Fish Leong at Wembley Arena. Entec was working for the show's ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufacturers compound semiconductor-based systems for fiber-optic and solar power applications, recently delivered its 1 millionth high-efficiency, multi-junction solar cell to Space Systems/Loral ...