Apple Inc. expects to join Samsung and Sony in the wearables territory this fall, with a tentative October launch date scheduled for its long-rumored gadget, Re/code reported. The consumer electronics company hopes to hold an event that ...
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA and Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton, OR, USA have announced a strategic alliance to provide fully configured and validated RF measurement solutions that streamline wafer-level ...
China's Nanjing University has produced silicon carbide (SiC) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with the lowest claimed dark count rate (DCR) at high temperatures of 150°C, compared with any other semiconductor material [Dong Zhou et al, ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has added three new products to its portfolio of discrete mixers. The ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the XLamp XP-L, which is claimed to be the first commercially available single-die LED to achieve efficacy of up to 200 lumens per watt (LPW) at 350mA. ...
Advanced Tube Bending Maintains Latest-Generation Aircraft To maximize operational efficiency, British Airways maintains its fleet of aircraft in-house. The loss of revenue resulting from the grounding of a modern aircraft can be ...
The Phone Oximeter is a smartphone app developed by two British Columbia scientists as an affordable solution for the measurement of oxygen levels in the blood, an important early warning sign for pre-eclampsia in pregnant women, and for ...
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Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its gallium nitride (GaN)-on-diamond wafers have been proven by Raytheon Company to significantly outperform ...
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Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has claimed the highest optical 3dB modulation bandwidth of ~463MHz at 50mA for a 500nm-wavelength blue-green indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
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Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA has acquired electrothermal analysis technology from Gradient Design Automation Inc of Palo Alto, CA, which provides HeatWave electrothermal analysis software (used to identify hazards and ...
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Today,even low cost even low cost, entry-level thermal imaging cameras are surprisingly smart. They are ideal for quick and easy troubleshooting but they are not best suited to every task. Where clear visual evidence of thermal difference ...
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Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
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For first-quarter 2014, Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford, MA, USA (which designs and supplies analog, digital and mixed-signal RF, microwave and millimeter-wave ICs, modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation) has reported record ...
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Laser Encoders Enable High-Accuracy Machining of Composite Parts Flow International Corp.'s Composites Machining Center (CMC) hits the mark for single-setup processing of 40-meter-long composite wing skins, and one of the keys to holding ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has introduced its next-generation UltraCMOS PE4312 ...
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