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PEIC Panelists to Address Perspectives on Workforce Challenges & Opportunities Facing Power Electronics Industry
Sep 11, 2017As part of the Special Session program at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2017) in Cincinnati, OH (1–5 October), the Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based ...
Tags: semiconductor, supply chain
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NCSU's Freedm Systems Center Develops Low-Cost SiC High-Voltage Switch
Oct 12, 2016Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have created a high-voltage and high-frequency silicon carbide (SiC) power switch that could cost much less than similarly rated SiC power switches, it is reckoned. The findings could ...
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NCSU's SiC-Based Inverter Achieves 12.1kW/L, Close to DOE's Target of 13.4kW/L by 2020
Sep 20, 2016Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have used off-the-shelf silicon carbide (SiC)-based components to develop an inverter with ...
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NCSU Discovers New Phase of Boron Nitride and New Way to Create Pure C-BN
Feb 14, 2016North Carolina State University (NCSU) has discovered a new phase of boron nitride (Q-BN) that has potential applications for both manufacturing tools and electronic displays. The researchers have also developed a new technique for creating ...
Tags: cubic boron nitride, Boron Nitride
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NCSU Has Been Developing Homo-Epitaxy of Non-Polar AIN with a View to DUV
Oct 30, 2014North Carolina State University (NCSU) has been developing homo-epitaxy of non-polar aluminium nitride (AlN) with a view to deep ultraviolet (DUV, less than 300nm wavelength) optoelectronics [Isaac Bryan et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol116, ...
Tags: aluminium nitride, UV LED
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Greeson and Varley Were Honored by The Aatcc TCR with The TCR Service Award
Apr 14, 2014H. Kenneth Greeson of Cotton Incorporated and Adam R. Varley of Vartest Laboratories Inc. were honored by the AATCC Technical Committee on Research (TCR) with the TCR Service Award in recognition of their achievements and service to AATCC. ...
Tags: Varley, fabric finishing, textile chemistry
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Need for Relatively Thick Semiconductor Thin Films Has Added Some Significant Cost
Feb 27, 2014The use of semiconductors in optoelectronic applications has had a bit of thickness problem. For photovoltaics, the need for relatively thick semiconductor thin films has added some significant cost to their manufacture. In other ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, optoelectronic
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ABB Is Receiving $2.1m of The $70m Grant Over Five Years
Feb 13, 2014ABB says that it is receiving $2.1m of the $70m grant over five years from the Advanced Manufacturing Office within the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) that is funding the new Next ...
Tags: ABB, Power Electronics
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University of Buffalo Researchers Created Silicon Nanoparticles
Feb 10, 2014One of the inconvenient truths about fuel cells for powering automobiles—a key to the establishment of the so-called hydrogen economy—is that it is extremely costly and energy intensive to isolate hydrogen gas. The last couple ...
Tags: Gas Production, Hydrogen Gas, nanomaterials
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IQE Is to Play a Key Part in a US Public-Private Consortium
Jan 21, 2014Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK is to play a key part in a US public-private consortium of more than 25 companies, universities and state and federal organizations selected to lead the Next Generation ...
Tags: IQE, Power electronics, GaN-on-Si, CMOS
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NCSU Will Host Two Seminars-One for Horse Owners and One for Veterinarians
Jan 14, 2014The North Carolina State University (NCSU) College of Veterinary Medicine will be hosting two seminars-one for horse owners and one for veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary students, and farriers-on Feb. 8-9. All proceeds will ...
Tags: Veterinarian, Horse, NCSU
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IQE Presented a Joint Paper on a New Type of Transistor
Dec 17, 2013At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
Tags: Low-Power Tunneling Transistor, Electrical, Electronics
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NCSU Have Developed a New Technique for Creating High-Quality Semiconductor Thin Films
May 22, 2013Funded 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 ...
Tags: NCSU, Atomic-Layer Thin-Film
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NCSU Claims to Have Solved a Long-Standing Materials Science Problem
May 2, 2013Together 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
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Winners Are Honored by Aatcc as Recipient of J. William Weaver Paper of The Year Award
Apr 11, 2013Keith R. Beck, David Hinks, Nathan H. Weisner, and Anne Crawford are being honored by AATCC as the recipients of the J. William Weaver Paper of the Year Award for "Liquid Chromatographic and Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Dyes for Forensic ...
Tags: AATCC, Weaver Paper, Apparel