Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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LED chip,lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has introduced XLamp MK-R LEDs.The new LEDs leverage the firm's SC3 Technology next generation LED platform,based on advanced silicon carbide technology,to deliver up to 200 ...
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Light output power increased 23% over conventional lateral LEDs. Korea's universities have used aluminum-alloyed graphite as a thermally conducting substrate to improve the light output power performance of nitride semiconductor LEDs by ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany have successfully tested power transistors made of gallium nitride (GaN) in power electronic systems. By using such transistors the researchers says ...
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Merrimack, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired certain ...
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Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA says that its technology facility in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK has successfully tested silicon carbide (SiC) mixed-signal devices at temperatures up to 400°C. “Raytheon UK’s aim is to ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has received a$2.7m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)to triple the power handling performance of ...
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK says that its new MAGIC (MAnufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs) have won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012. The winners were announced at the ...
17 September 2012 Arsenide nanowires on graphite and graphene Researchers at Norwegian University of Science and Technology(NTNU)have succeeded in growing gallium arsenide(GaAs)and indium arsenide(InAs)compound semiconductor crystal ...
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The Cree XLamp MK-R LED offers up to 1600 lm at typical operating temperature matching the capabilities of many COB SSL arrays while featuring a smaller optical source for superior beam control. Cree has announced the XLamp MK-R packaged ...
Plessey Semiconductors Ltd of Plymouth, UK has won the Solid-State Lighting Application Category of the Elektra Awards 2012 for its new MAGIC (Manufactured on GaN ICs) High Brightness LEDs (HB-LEDs). The winners were announced at the ...
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Current bright blue LEDs are based on the wide band gap semiconductors GaN (gallium nitride) and InGaN (indium gallium nitride). They can be added to existing red and green LEDs to produce the impression of white light, though white LEDs ...
Electrical test instrument and system provider Keithley Instruments Inc of Cleveland, OH, USA has introduced seven instrumentation, software, and test fixture configurations for parametric curve tracing applications for characterizing high ...
New XLamp XM-L2 LEDs Deliver 186 Lumens-per-Watt Efficacy Milestone to Accelerate Adoption of LED Lighting Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) once again sets an LED industry performance milestone with the commercial availability of XLamp® ...
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