Process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that ultraviolet short-wavelength light-emitting diodes (UV-C LEDs) research firm CrayoNano AS of Trondheim, Norway - which was founded in June 2012 based on research ...
Tags: UV-C LED, Graphene Growth
Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which is developing nanomaterials technology for enhancing solar cell efficiency, has closed a record funding round of $21.3m (reckoned to be the largest finance raise for a European solar technology company ...
Tags: solar cell, PV
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that it is pushing ahead with research on perovskite solar cells within the three-year project PeroBOOST (running from March 2016 to February 2019). Aixtron ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has raised $17m in a Series C round of equity investment and grant funding, led by new investor Riyadh Valley Company ...
Tags: Solar Cell, solar panels
Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has confirmed the successful alignment and orientation of nanowires in a thin film. The firm reckons that the achievement ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV
Researchers in Hong Kong and USA have developed indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) microdisk lasers directly integrated on silicon (Si) with performance comparable to the best reported for similar devices on gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: InAs quantum dot microdisk lasers InAs GaAs substrates
Future radar imaging systems and 5G communication systems will generate improved resolution and provide higher data-transmission rates when operated at higher frequencies, but at the cost of increased power consumption. To reduce power ...
While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light. Researchers at Arizona State ...
Tags: ASU, White Lasers, LEDs
McGill University in Canada has developed light-emitting diodes based on aluminium indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) nanowires on silicon with spontaneous core-shell structures that inhibit non-radiative surface recombination, improving ...
Eindhoven University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, or TU/e) and FOM Foundation have presented a prototype of a solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity (Anthony Standing et al., 'Efficient water reduction ...
A team at IBM Research's Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, with support from the firm's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has developed what it says is a relatively simple, robust and ...
Tags: IBM III-Vs-on-Si, Electrical, Electronics, IBM
Microsanj LLC of Santa Clara, CA, USA - a supplier of high-resolution, thermoreflectance imaging analysis (TIA) c, tools and consulting services - participated in three conferences during Microwave Week in Phoenix, Arizona. At the 2015 ...
Tags: TIA system, thermal imaging system
Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been producing 610nm-wavelength red lasers with III-nitride nanowires (NWs) grown on silicon [Shafat Jahangir et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p071108, 2015]. With a view to plastic fiber optical ...
Tags: plastic fiber, Electronics
Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has demonstrated a 1-sun photovoltaic (PV) solar energy conversion efficiency of 15.3% using a gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: GaAs, PV, Electronics
Zhejiang University in China and University of Cambridge in the UK have jointly developed ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) based on metal-semiconductor Schottky junctions between silver nanowires (AgNWs) and gallium nitride (GaN) ...