University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and epiwafer foundry IQE Inc have developed 1.3μm-wavelength indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) lasers grown on silicon (Si) with “record performance” [Alan Y. Liu et al, ...
Tags: Silicon, `Quantum Dot Lasers
In booth #11 F63 at the EuroShop event in Dusseldorf, Germany (16-20 February), Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, ...
Tags: Soraa GaN-on-GaN, LED AR111 Lamps
The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have co-developed inexpensive material that has the potential to capture and convert solar energy — particularly from the bluer part ...
Tags: Solar Cells, High-Energy Photons
Researchers associated with Taiwan National Central University and Epistar Corp are developing a method to transfer indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to ceramic aluminium nitride (AlN) substrates for high-voltage ...
Tags: InGaN LED, Ceramic Substrate
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on ‘GaN on GaN’ (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has launched what it claims are the first high correlated color temperature ...
Tags: MR16 LED Lamps, LEDs
A UK-based company is developing solar-cell technology that could help advance the market for integrating solar energy-harvesting glass into commercial buildings. Oxford Photovoltaics (PV) -- co-founded by Oxford University physicist ...
How would you advise a $100-billion venture capital fund to spend its money on preventing dangerous levels of global warming over the next 100 years? Climate experts recently chose distributed renewable energy, energy efficiency, and ...
Tags: Renewable Power
A new San Francisco-based start-up, Artemis Networks, announced today that it plans to commercialize its "pCell" technology, a novel wireless transmission scheme that could eliminate network congestion and provide faster, more reliable data ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, 5G, 4G
University of Leeds researchers have taken the lead in the race to build the world's most powerful terahertz laser chip. A paper in the Institution of Engineering and Technology's (IET) journal Electronics Letters reports that the Leeds ...
More than 99.9% of the mass of any atom is concentrated into a quadrillionth of its volume, the part occupied by the nucleus. Unimaginably small, dense and energetic, atomic nuclei are governed by laws quite distinct from those that ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
From birth, infants naturally show a preference for human contact and interaction, including faces and voices. These basic predispositions to social stimuli are altered in individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A new ...
Attendance was up on 2013's 72,595 visitors. Over 76,000 trade visitors from 112 countries travelled to the biggest Spielwarenmesse of all time, trumping last year's attendance of 72,595. The extra buyers and traders came mainly from ...
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TUPELO,Miss.—Tupelo Furniture Market officials say they have assigned additional staff to help attendees with last-minute hotel reservations for this week's market. Officials said hotel space in the Tupelo area is tight,but rooms ...
Tags: Hotel Rooms, Tupelo Furniture, Furniture
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) will soon propose rules for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications on U.S. roads, it announced yesterday. The agency is now finalizing a report on a 2012 trial with almost 3000 ...
Tags: Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Communications
TUESDAY Feb. 4, 2014, 2014 -- A downward trend in antibiotic use among children may have leveled off in certain areas of the United States, a new study shows. Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reviewed ...
Tags: Antibiotic