Light-emitting diodes, better known as LEDs, offer substantial energy savings over incandescent and fluorescent lights and are easily produced in single colors such as red or green commonly used in traffic lights or children's toys. ...
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Kim Kisslinger, seen here with a focused-ion beam instrument, reduced the InGaN samples to a thickness of just 20 nanometers to prepare them for electron microscopy. From the high-resolution glow of flat screen televisions to light bulbs ...
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Funded by the US Army Research Office, researchers at North Carolina State University ( at the atomic scale (just one atom thick). The technique can be used to create the thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are ...
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The student Ming Ma from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a new method to manufacture LEDs that are brighter, more energy efficient, and have superior technical properties than those on the market today. His patent-pending ...
Together with researchers at the US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC) and Duke University, a team led by North Carolina State University (NCSU) claims to have solved a long-standing materials ...
Tags: NCSU, ZnO-Based UV Lasers, Electronics
AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new facility at the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy. The CCS ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that the University of Cambridge has commissioned another multi-wafer Aixtron Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new facility at the Department of Material ...
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Long-term collaboration for growth of 6-inch GaN-on-Si wafers planned AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new ...
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The same material that formed the first primitive transistors more than 60 years ago can be modified in a new way to advance future electronics, according to a new study. Chemists at Ohio State University have developed the technology for ...
Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced today an accounting change relating to expense recognition for company-sponsored pension plans. The new method, adopted in the first quarter of 2013, will result in simpler, more transparent ...
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UV-visible-NIR microscope and microspectrometer manufacturer CRAIC Technologies of San Dimas, CA, USA has launched its new flagship product, the 20/30 PV microspectrophotometer, designed to non-destructively analyze many types of ...
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This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in reverse osmosis (RO) desalination. It looks at materials science developments in conventional thin-film composite membranes, and recent research breakthroughs in novel nano-enhanced RO membranes. ...
The UK’s University of Cambridge has opened a new £1m facility for growing gallium nitride that aims to enable researchers to expand and accelerate their work, which promises to further reduce the cost and improve the efficiency ...
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Gallium nitride has been described as “the most important semiconductor since silicon” and is used in energy-saving LED lighting. A new £1million (or US$1,530,700) growth facility will allow University of Cambridge ...
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Simulations reveal that the formation of some glassy materials is like the setting of a bowl of gelatin. Gelatin sets by forming a solid matrix full of random, liquid-filled pores — much like a saturated sponge. It turns out that a ...