Murata have announced the D1U86G series of 86 mm wide, 460 Watt front end power supplies from Murata Power Solutions. The D1U86G can achieve a high minimum conversion efficiency of 92 percent at 50 percent full load. With 1U form factor, ...
Researchers at Korea's Chonbuk National University and Korea Institute of Science and Technology have improved the contact of graphene with p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN), resulting in improved near-ultraviolet (NUV) light-emitting diodes ...
Tags: Near-ultraviolet LEDs, Graphene GaN MOCVD, Gallium Nitride
It's not a bird, not a plane. But it could be someone's personal drone coming to the skies near you. Some of the flying objects being shown at this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas include items that are for play, personal ...
Tags: personal drone, flying object, Consumer Electronics Show
A team headed by Stefan Eisebitt has developed a new X-ray holography method that will enable snap-shots of dynamic processes at highest spatial resolution. The efficiency of the new method is based on a X-ray focussing optics being firmly ...
2014 promises to be the year small drones will start showing off what they can do—at least if the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration comes through with regulations that allow them to take to the air. But there's one first for a ...
Tags: small drones, diminutive robotic aircraft, ice-penetrating radar
Figure 1 - This animated GIF shows Asteroid 2014 AA, discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Jan. 1, 2014, as it moved across the sky. Credit: CSS/LPL/UA Several sources confirm that the first discovered asteroid in 2014, ...
It's the new year, a time when a smokers' thoughts often turn to quitting. Some people may use that promise of a fresh start to trade their tobacco cigarettes for an electronic cigarette, a device that attempts to mimic the look and feel ...
Tags: smokers, electronic cigarette, quit smoking
Kennedy Space Center will be the testing site for a top-secret Air Force space plane. Boeing is working on the spacecraft, and the company announced Friday that it will convert a former space shuttle building for the X-37B orbital test ...
Tags: Kennedy Space Center, Air Force, space plane, unmanned spacecraft
Researchers in China have developed a selective area epitaxy (SAE) approach to create nanopyramids of nitride semiconductor 'white' light-emitting diodes (LEDs) without using phosphors [Kui Wu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol103, p241107, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
A Tornado fighter jet fitted with metal components created on a 3D printer undertook a successful test flight in Britain last month, defence company BAE Systems said Sunday. The plane was equipped with a 3D-printed protective cover for ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, 3D-Printed Components
Lathe machine has been widely used in the industries since ages. It is a machine used to cut and shape the metals and wood at high speed. The very basic model of this machine was primarily designed to cut cylindrical metal stocks. Instead ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components, CNC Lathe
I f you take the main road east out of Moriarty,N.M.,turn south at a sign advertising glider rides,and then swing east again past the sailplanes ornamenting a two-runway airport,you will see hangar No.76,the headquarters of Titan ...
Tags: Solara, solar-powered robotic airplanes, Titan Aerospace
Researchers based in Korea and Egypt have used wafer thinning to increase the efficiency of nitride semiconductor green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Wael Z. Tawfik et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p122103, 2013]. The contributing ...
About Aircraft batteries Parts and Its Product Range: Just as car batteries are used to start the engines, such are the purpose of aircraft batteries. However, there are many more differences than similarities, as an aircraft battery is ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Aircraft Batteries
Asahi/America, Inc., the leader in thermoplastic fluid flow technologies, introduces the socket welding PREP tool for effortless removal of oxidation on thermoplastic pipe and fittings before welding. Asahi’s new PREP (peel, remove, ...
Tags: Socket Welding, PREP Tool