Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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Mike Lazaridis,the inventor of the Blackbery and co-founder of RIM,has put$100m into the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre in Waterloo,Ontario,with the intention of re-creating the conditions at Bell Labs which made many of the ...
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Fifty years ago this week a Delta rocket roared into space carrying a payload that sparked a revolution in the way the world communicates. On board the rocket, launched on July 10, was Telstar, the first telecommunications ...
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III-V Lab(formed in 2004 as a privately held Paris-based joint venture between telecoms-focused Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France and defense&aerospace-focused Thales Research and Technology)has reported results of its activities for the ...
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