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Indium Gallium Nitride Laser Diode Directly Integrated with Silicon

Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...

Tags: InGaN Laser diodes, cw, SINANO

Continuous-Wave Room-Temperature Indium Arsenide Quantum Cascade Laser

University of Montpellier in France claims the first continuous-wave (cw) operation at room temperature of a 15μm indium arsenide (InAs) quantum cascade laser (QCL) [Alexei N. Baranov et al, Optics Express, vol. 24, p18799, 2016]. "To ...

Tags: University of Montpellier, InAs, MBE

Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser Output Power in CW Mode Almost Doubled to 0.23W

By optimizing the material growth and manufacturing process, researchers at the China Academy of Engineering Physics' Research Center of Laser Fusion and the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics in Beijing have nearly ...

Tags: Cascade Laser, ceramics

UCSB-LED Team Reports First Quantum Cascade Laser on Silicon

A team led by Alexander Spott of University of California, Santa Barbara – in collaboration with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison – has fabricated what is said to be the first ...

III-Nitride High-Electron-Mobility Transistors on Flexible Tape

Researchers in France claim the first demonstration of 10GHz large-signal microwave power performance for flexible aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [S. Mhedhbi et al, IEEE Electron Device ...

Tags: AlGaN HEMTs AlGaN HEMTS MBE PECVD

Direct Growth Of III-V Quantum Dot Lasers On Silicon Substrate

Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...

Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE

Low-Threshold Yellow Laser Diodes

Yellow laser diodes with low thesholds have been produced by Jijun Feng (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China) and Ryoichi Akimoto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan) based on ...

Tags: Yellow lasers BeZnCdSe 560-590nm lasers, Ryoichi Akimoto, Electronics

FZLED Launches Lightweight 2-Inch LED Downlight

FZLED, a leading maker of LED lighting product, is pleased to announce a family long lasting, lightweight, adjustable angle 8W 2-inch LED downlights - FZL-DL02-01 series. The downlight is easy to install and designed to be energy-saving ...

Tags: LED luminaire, LED downlight, FZ LED

II-VI Semiconductor Green Laser Diode Achieves Lower Current Threshold

Jijun Feng and Ryoichi Akimoto based in China and Japan have developed low-threshold green and green-yellow laser diodes (LDs) based on a beryllium zinc cadmium selenide (BeZnCdSe) quantum well [Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p161101, 2015]. ...

Tags: laser diodes, zirconium dioxide