By blending their expertise, two materials science engineers at Washington University in St. Louis changed the electronic properties of new class of materials — just by exposing it to light. With funding from the Washington ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Metal
UK lighting manufacturer LED Strip Lights Co. recently shared their views on an article, "Piezo-Phototronic LEDs May Help Robots Feel", published on 8th August in an international electronic engineering magazine. The article revealed that ...
Tags: LED Strip Lights, LED, Lights, Lighting
According to reports, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a sensor device capturing signatures with tiny piezo-phototronic LEDs, that's to say, the device converts mechanical pressure from a signature or a ...
Tags: Sensor Device, Tiny LEDs
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology want to put your signature up in lights – tiny lights, that is. Using thousands of nanometer-scale wires, the researchers have developed a sensor device that converts mechanical ...
Tags: Piezo-Phototronic Effect
U.S. Zinc will launch a new national distribution strategy for its zinc oxide division through an alliance with the KODA Distribution Group, Stamford, Conn. The new approach, which will go into effect as soon as contracts permit, will ...
Tags: Zinc Oxide, Construction
Covering a roof or a facade with standard solar cells to generate electricity will change a building’s original appearance—and not always for the better (this idea to coat buildings with graphene kicks the problem up another ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Facade Design
Japan's Sharp said Thursday it will team with a large Chinese manufacturer to build a factory in Nanjing and mass-produce LCD screens for TVs, computers and tablets. Sharp said it will form a joint venture with China Electronics Corp. ...
Tags: Sharp, LCD Panel, Chinese Firm
To meet the growing demand for gallium in LED manufacturing in North-East Asia, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is to invest in a new gallium chemicals facility to be located in South ...
Tags: 5N Plus, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Fujitsu will this month launch a super-thin Ultrabook, built on Intel's latest Haswell processors, with an 11-hour battery life and a screen with nearly three times HD resolution. The company said the new "UH90/L" model from its Lifebook ...
A transnational team of researchers has reported the first electrically pumped exciton-polariton laser device using an arsenide semiconductor microcavity [Christian Schneider et al, Nature, vol. 497, p348, 2013]. The team was variously ...
Tags: Electrical Pumping, Electrical, Electronics
Of the sunscreens in our new Ratings, two may be better choices for children and pregnant women. One is a Coppertone lotion, the other an Equate sunscreen sold in Walmart. Here's why they make good options. They are lotions, not sprays. ...
Tags: Sunscreens, Daily Use
Over the last decade, nanotechnology has found its way into almost all sectors. Nanolayers are finding applications in wind turbines to improve the aerodynamics and prevent surface icing. Moreover, microelectronics these days are largely ...
Tags: Techtextil, Textile
Together with researchers at the US Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center (AMRDEC) and Duke University, a team led by North Carolina State University (NCSU) claims to have solved a long-standing materials ...
Tags: NCSU, ZnO-Based UV Lasers, Electronics
Taiwan National Tsing Hua University has been studying ways to improve the modulation performance of high-output-power nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
Tags: GaN InGaN LEDs, LED, Electrical, Electronics, taiwan
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of South Korea have developed a zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod (NR) process for improving light extraction from gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by up to ...
Tags: GaN, LEDs, Electronics