Researchers at University of California,Santa Barbara(UCSB)have developed what is claimed to be the first violet nonpolar vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers(VCSELs)based on m-plane gallium nitride(GaN). The latest development is ...
Optical module and component maker Opnext Inc of Fremont,CA,USA and SURFnet,the National Research and Education Network(NREN)in The Netherlands,have announced a successful 100Gbps coherent field trial between the National Supercomputing ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has achieved record maximum drain currents and peak transconductances for enhancement-mode(normally off)metal–oxide–(nitride)semiconductor heterojunction field-effect ...
22 June 2012 Sumitomo and Sony claim first 100mW true-green 530nm laser diode Tokyo-based compound semiconductor materials provider Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd(SEI)and Sony Corp say that,by using a semi-polar gallium ...
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University of Notre Dame (UND) and IQE RF LLC of Somerset, NJ, USA have achieved record cut-off frequencies of 370GHz for InAlN/AlN/GaN/SiC high-electron-mobility transistors. The use of indium aluminum nitride (InAlN) barrier layers ...
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20 June 2012 First 40GHz 2.5W/mm output performance of GaN/Si HEMTs Institute for Electronics,Microelectronics and Nanotechnology(IEMN)in France has demonstrated high-power-density nitride high-electron-mobility transistors(HEMTs)on ...
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Southampton's ORC creates artificial material with nonlinear optical properties 7 orders of magnitude greater than any in nature. The results catapult nonlinear optical activity from barely detectable to major optical ...
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Researchers in France and Switzerland have used nitride semiconductor quantum cascade(QC)structures to detect short-wavelength infrared light[S.Sakr et al,Appl.Phys.Lett.,vol100,p181103,2012].The team was based variously at University of ...
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TE Connectivity announces a new addition to its solderless LED socket series — the Type NL2 socket for quick termination of NICHIA COB-L LEDs. This new offering, which provides a reliable mechanical and electrical connection of an LED ...
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TE Connectivity announces a new addition to its solderless LED socket series — the Type NL2 socket for quick termination of NICHIA COB-L LEDs. This new offering, which provides a reliable mechanical and electrical connection of an LED ...
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Solar power may be on the rise, but solar cells are only as efficient as the amount of sunlight they collect. Under the direction of a new McCormick professor, researchers have developed a new material that absorbs a wide range of ...
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Researchers have used zinc oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency at which gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LED) convert electricity to ultraviolet light. The devices are believed to be the first LEDs whose ...
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Researchers have used zinc oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency at which gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LED) convert electricity to ultraviolet light. The devices are believed to be the first LEDs whose ...