In work that has major implications for improving the performance of building insulation, scientists at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan I in Morocco have calculated that hairs that reflect infrared light may ...
Tags: Scattering Light, Light, Electrical, Electronics
The Kepler team today reports on four years of observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory targeting Kepler's exoplanet systems, announcing results this week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington. These observations, ...
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Researchers in Japan have created indium phosphide (InP) nanowire (NW) solar cell structures with internal quantum efficiencies (IQEs) that beat the performance of bulk InP-based devices in the short-wavelength range of 300-570nm [Masatoshi ...
Tags: INP Nanowire solar cells, InP SA-MOVPE p-type, InP substrates
Researchers in China have developed a selective area epitaxy (SAE) approach to create nanopyramids of nitride semiconductor 'white' light-emitting diodes (LEDs) without using phosphors [Kui Wu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol103, p241107, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been using limited area epitaxy (LAE) to improve the performance of lasers diodes (LDs) grown on free-standing semipolar (20-21) gallium nitride (GaN) substrates [Matthew T. Hardy et al, J. ...
Picometrix LLC, a subsidiary of Advanced Photonix Inc of Ann Arbor, MI, USA (which designs and makes APD, PIN, and FILTRODE photodetectors, HSOR high-speed optical receivers, and T-Ray terahertz instrumentation), has completed its annual ...
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Thin-film processing equipment maker AVACO Co Ltd of Daegu, South Korea, which specializes in sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment (in-line, cluster, and roll to roll), atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, back-end-of-line ...
Tags: PV CIGSSe, Electrical, Electronics
Comfortably cool in summer and cosy warm in winter, all with minimum energy use. The Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim/Germany have expanded their current range of tests to allow modern office and living spaces, vehicle interiors, ...
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China-based concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) module maker Suncore Photovoltaic Technology Co Ltd, which is owned by Xiamen-based San'an Optoelectronics Co Ltd (the largest LED maker in China), has acquired the assets of Israel-based ...
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Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation and Kyushu University in Japan detectors based on indium antimonide (InSb) [Koichiro Ueno et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol52, p092202, 2013]. The reshave developed room-temperature mid-infrared ...
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Researchers based in the USA have used a double-heterostructuring based on order-disorder properties of aluminium indium phosphide (AlInP) to produce 'amber-green' light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Theresa M. Christian et al, J. Appl. Phys., ...
Tags: LEDs, Electrical, Electronics
Colors are playing an increasingly important role in the automotive sector. Consumers can not only choose the exterior color of the vehicle, you can also tailor the interior lighting to the customer’s individual taste. Thanks to the ...
With colors playing an increasingly important role in the automotive sector. the interior lighting can also be tailored to a customer's individual taste. Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg says that, due to the wide blue color ...
Tags: Osram, LED headlamps, LED
New multi-chip-LEDs with a broad bright blue color range Colors are playing an increasingly important role in the automotive sector. Now it's not only the exterior color of the vehicle that you can choose, you can also tailor the interior ...
Gallium-nitride-on-silicon architecture inches closer to sapphire-based LED performance levels but a significant gap remains. Plessey Semiconductors has announced the PLB010350 LED that it is manufactured on its gallium-nitride-on-silicon ...