Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced early sampling of a 400Gb/s high electro-optic bandwidth lithium niobate (LiNbO3) external modulator for designing ...
Dematic has launched a new high-density storage for warehouse operations, the Colby Push-Back Pallet Racking. Colby Push-Back Pallet Racking provides high-density storage where pallets are stored up to six pallets deep. Using a forklift, ...
Tags: warehouse, storage, Pallet Racking
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new approach to achieving color mixing with its high-power LUXEON C Color Line of LEDs. "We've solved the problems of beam halos and mismatched, unmixed color by designing our platform ...
Technische Universit Wien (TU Wien) in Austria has improved its bi-functional 6.8μm quantum cascade laser and detector (QCLD) technology [Benedikt Schwarz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p071104, 2015]. It is hoped that monolithic ...
QEOS Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (a designer of low-power connectivity and sensing CMOS millimeter-wave solutions) and GlobalFoundries of Santa Clara, CA, USA (one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries, with more than 250 customers ...
Tags: mm-Wave Markets, automotive
French automaker Citroen has revealed Citroen Cactus M concept car, which is based on the company’s Cactus hatchback. The car has an open-top architecture which is permanent in nature and drivers will have to use a the lightweight ...
Tags: Citroen, concept car
University of Glasgow and University of Cambridge in the UK have claimed the highest frequency performance to date for gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on low-resistivity (LR) silicon (Si) [A. Eblabla et al, ...
Alfalight Inc of Madison, WI, USA, which designs and manufactures infrared and visible laser and electro-optical systems for defense and security applications, has won the 2015 Wisconsin Innovation Awards honor for manufacturing, citing the ...
Japanese automobile major Toyota has introduced the 2016 Toyota Tacoma mid-size pickup vehicle, armed with two engines - 2.7-liter DOHC four-cylinder with VVT and V6 with a segment-first 3.5-liter Atkinson cycle with VVT-iW. Toyota ...
Lexus, the luxury vehicle arm of Toyota, has introduced 2016 Lexus LX 570, armed with V8 engine, 4WD chassis and seating arrangement for eight. While eight-speed automatic transmission has substituted the former six-speed for enhanced ...
Tags: Luxury Utility Vehicle, Lexus
“It is only a matter of time before white LEDs using blue LED chips will disappear from the market,” said Shuji Nakamura at a forum on GaN technology in July organized by Nikkei Asian Review. The comment from the inventor of ...
Tags: LED chip, Blue LED, Purple LEDs
AquiSense Technologies of Florence, KY, USA (which works with UV-C LED makers to evaluate their devices and then design efficient UV disinfection products) has launched PearlBeam, a compact collimated beam device that employs UV-LEDs ...
Tags: UV LEDs, mercury-lamp
Researchers in the USA and Korea have developed a hydrogen high pressure annealing (HPA) process for aluminium oxide/hafnium dioxide (Al2O3/HfO2) gate stacks on indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum wells [Tae-Woo Kim et al, IEEE ...
Tags: Transistors, capacitors
Honda has introduced a refreshed 2016 Accord loaded with advanced technology in Silicon Valley, the first time the company has launched a new vehicle in the US tech hub. Coming to market in August, the 2016 Accord will be the first Honda ...
Tags: Honda, high-volume cars
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 ...