The value of annual sales in the global photonics market has been revised upwards to $182bn, according to new analysis by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics (and owner of optics.org). The new results were presented by ...
The three-member Texas Railroad Commission on Tuesday accepted the findings of the commission staff that two oil and gas wastewater disposal wells were not the likely cause of a series of earthquakes that shook parts of North Texas in late ...
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UK scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich have found a new way of producing enormous quantities of natural compounds efficiently by growing them in tomatoes. These compounds are believed to help in combating life-threatening ...
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Researchers in the USA have been working on gallium nitride phosphide (GaNP) as an absorbing material for solar power [S. Sukrittanon et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p153901, 2015]. The aim of the team from University of California San ...
The World Health Organisation's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has found the presence of carcinogens in red meat and processed meat and their consumption is likely to lead to cancer in humans. A working group ...
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Schott has developed a chemically strengthened glass cartridge that is up to three times more resistant to breakage. Schott has developed a chemically strengthened glass cartridge that is up to three times more resistant to breakage. The ...
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Researchers in Japan have claimed record breakdown voltage combined with low on-resistance for vertical gallium nitride (GaN) p-n diodes fabricated on free-standing GaN substrates [Hiroshi Ohta et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP will show for the first time organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) on graphene at Plastic Electronics 2015 (6th − 8th of October ...
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The method helps discovering the most efficient lamps, which may save billions in lighting costs in the future. Researchers at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have succeeded in developing a method which helps ...
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Despite technological leaps in modern electronics, the quality of lighting they provide still leaves much room for improvement. A collaborative team — led by Jian Li, an associate professor of materials science and engineering in ...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed a near ultra-violet and all-organic light emitting diode (OLED) that can be used as an on-chip photosensor. It’s a first in a rather specialized field of research ...
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Nobel Prize laureate Professor Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, was the honored speaker at the Axalta Distinguished Lectures Series sponsored by Axalta Coating Systems ...
A group of researchers have developed Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany have developed a self healing tire which can repair cut and tear on its own. Amit Das and his colleagues at the German research institute ...
Researchers based in China and Canada have developed single-mode ridge waveguide Fabry-Perot (RW FP) laser diodes using a pair of etched trenches that are slanted to reflect out unwanted wavelengths [Xun Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed an n-type gallium nitride (n-GaN) tunnel junction (TJ) intracavity contact to reduce threshold current and increase differential efficiency in its m-plane III-nitride ...
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