New data is bringing scientists much closer to proving that a particle discovered in the Large Hadron Collider last year is the elusive Higgs boson. Scientists with the collider said they have analyzed two and a half times more data than ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) is stepping up production of gallium nitride on ...
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Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) says that its novel 600V gallium nitride (GaN) module has enabled the first GaN-based high power converter. Transphorm ...
A group of lighting designers and manufacturers, researchers, and utilities have joined to ask the EPA to recognize that higher-CRI lamps can increase energy savings through broader usage even with a slightly reduced efficacy specification. ...
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Recently, the lighting sector has urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program to address light quality, specifically color rendering, in its new lamp specification, in a bid to ensure the long-term ...
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The US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA will spend $194m in the next five years under the STARnet initiative to fund six university microelectronics research projects. C-FAR at University of Michigan: Research future ...
Nitride Solutions Inc of Wichita, KS, USA, which is developing substrates for LEDs, lasers and power electronics, has been awarded a US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant of nearly $150,000 to commercialize its manufacturing ...
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The overarching trend for glass in the kitchen: "more is more." Designers and homeowners are increasingly looking to glass for more applications within the kitchen, and they are demanding more from those products in terms of aesthetics and ...
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Like it or not, we are in the midst of yet another technology talent crisis, and when your CEO is demanding more out of your team, you really need good people. But here's the paradox: The talent pipeline is being squeezed at both ends. ...
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Seoul Semiconductor claims 5x brightness with non-polar LEDs 10 Jul 2012 Seoul Semiconductor has announced that it will introduce LEDs based on non-polar technology,which it claims will deliver over 5x the lumens per unit area of ...
University of California,Santa Barbara(UCSB)has demonstrated for the first time nonpolar m-plane(10-10)nitride semiconductor vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser(VCSEL)diodes[Casey Holder et al,Appl.Phys.Express,vol5,p092104,2012]. The ...
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D2 Technologies, the market leader in embedded IP communications software platforms, today announced that chairman and CEO David Wong is the University of California, Santa Barbara Electrical and Computer Engineering's distinguished ...
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Transphorm raises$35m in Series-E financing LED by Japan's INCJ Transphorm Inc of Goleta,near Santa Barbara,CA,USA(which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules)has announced a$35m Series E financing round led by ...
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Last weekend was the first ever "Design Milk Presents" event, Reinvention; Writing History Through Aluminum, featuring new works by Brad Ascalon and Frederick McSwain (AM) for Neal Feay Studio, an exhibition at Bobby Berk Home (it runs ...
Researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara, have devised methods to detect and discriminate more harmful forms of Salmonella bacteria, a development which may help prevent food poisoning outbreaks. According to researchers, ...
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