The mid-IR laser market is relatively small when compared to the total laser market, but it is growing almost four times faster than the laser market as a whole, according to market analyst Strategies Unlimited. This growth is driven by ...
Tags: MiD-IR Laser, Total Laser Market, Growing
Yole Développement (Yole), the Lyon, France-based market research and strategic consulting company, has published its new LED down converters technology and market report, entitled Phosphors & Quantum Dots 2015: LED Down Converters ...
Flat-panel computer monitors capable of producing an unprecedented range of colors are going on sale in Europe next month, thanks to quantum dot technology that appears on the verge of making a major impact on the displays industry. ...
A corseted Naomi Steinberg stands before her audience perched curiously on one foot, nose jutting forwards. She honks a couple times to inform people that she is indeed the goose referred to in the name of her show, Goose Feather. A few ...
Tags: performers, Steinberg, goose character
Researchers in the USA have been working on gallium nitride phosphide (GaNP) as an absorbing material for solar power [S. Sukrittanon et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p153901, 2015]. The aim of the team from University of California San ...
Researchers in Japan have claimed record breakdown voltage combined with low on-resistance for vertical gallium nitride (GaN) p-n diodes fabricated on free-standing GaN substrates [Hiroshi Ohta et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published ...
Researchers based in China and Canada have developed single-mode ridge waveguide Fabry-Perot (RW FP) laser diodes using a pair of etched trenches that are slanted to reflect out unwanted wavelengths [Xun Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
Tags: laser diodes, packages
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed an n-type gallium nitride (n-GaN) tunnel junction (TJ) intracavity contact to reduce threshold current and increase differential efficiency in its m-plane III-nitride ...
Tags: VCSEL, n-GaN, GaN substrates, MOCVD, MBE
Accel-RF Instruments Corp of San Diego, CA, USA (which produces turn-key reliability and performance characterization test systems for compound semiconductors) says that it has 'unplugged' the RF SMART Fixture from its automated test ...
Tags: Accel-RF, SMART Fixture, semiconductor
Jules Verne said in Around the World in 80 Days: “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” Today, that is truer than ever before. Did you ever think it would be possible to communicate so easily with anyone around ...
Tags: LED streetlights, LED lighting
Technische Universit Wien (TU Wien) in Austria has improved its bi-functional 6.8μm quantum cascade laser and detector (QCLD) technology [Benedikt Schwarz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p071104, 2015]. It is hoped that monolithic ...
Hearthside Food Solutions is investing in the US and Europe to increase its bar production, under two separate agreements. The company will acquire VSI, a producer of nutrition, diet, and functional bars in Europe, as well as a ...
Tags: functional bars, Hearthside Food
“It is only a matter of time before white LEDs using blue LED chips will disappear from the market,” said Shuji Nakamura at a forum on GaN technology in July organized by Nikkei Asian Review. The comment from the inventor of ...
Tags: LED chip, Blue LED, Purple LEDs
Shipments of coherent 100G ports for metro regional optical networks grew 145% year-on-year in 2014 and will grow another 118% in 2015, forecasts market research firm IHS. Led by massive purchases in China from China Mobile, 2014 was a ...
Joachim Piprek, founder & president of NUSOD Institute LLC in the USA, has run simulations that he believes eliminate electron leakage as the primary cause of efficiency droop at high current in blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Appl. ...