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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Osram Opto Semiconductors has improved its thin-film infrared chip technology to achieve high performance in the laboratory,including 72%wall-plug efficiency and 67%external quantum efficiency.Osram Opto Semiconductors has reported the ...
First Quantum Minerals Limited offered USD 4.9 billion to acquire Inmet Mining Corporation a bold declaration from one of Canada's largest copper miners that the commodities supercycle has room to run. Inmet rejected the bid describing it ...
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By making constant but weak measurements of a quantum system,physicists have managed to probe a delicate quantum state without destroying it–the equivalent of taking a peek at Schrodinger's metaphorical cat without killing it.The ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville,NC,USA has reported the results of an ongoing collaboration with development partner Tokuyama Corp of Tokyo,Japan that has demonstrated UV-C LEDs with exceptional output power and improvements in internal quantum ...
Quantum dot developers and manufacturers Nanoco,based in Manchester,has signed a follow-on joint agreement with one of the worlda??s largest lighting companies,the identity of which is as yet undisclosed. The agreement follows the ...
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According to the report 'Photonic Integrated Circuit (IC) & quantum computing Market-By Application (optical fiber communication, Optical Fiber sensors, Biomedical, Others), Integration (Hybrid, Module & Monolithic), Components, Raw ...
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Norway - Midas' long time Norwegian distribution partner AVAB CAC is celebrating its fiftieth sale of the PRO2 and PRO2C consoles in just 12 months. Asle Nilsen, head of audio sales at AVAB CAC shows off a Midas PRO2 Although ...
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Sofradir of Paris, France, which makes cooled infrared detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe) for military, space and commercial applications, has agreed to acquire the infrared (IR) detector technology development and ...
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OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada says that its US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT has produced an integrated laser device, achieving a key milestone in its Planar Optoelectronic Technology ...
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At 930 milliwatts from an operating current of 1 amp, its light output under laboratory conditions is 25 percent higher than that of the chips currently available on the market, which means that future infrared LEDs can be made even more ...
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Infrared thin-film chip leaps to 72 percent efficiency The infrared chip prototype has achieved a new record with an efficiency of up to 72 percent. At 930 milliwatts from an operating current of 1 amp, its light output under ...
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Optimal use of the energy in glass melting through waste gas heat recovery. The challenge in terms of sustainability: Due to process constraints,25%of the energy used to melt glass escapes with the waste gases.Our goal was to recover ...
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Steel market in China got a jerk with slight improvement.More than the quantum it was the temperament which was encouraging.In the backdrop of healthy growth in manufacturing activity for the first time in 13 months in November,according to ...
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The modern day LED was born 50 years ago this month.Jeanine Chrobak-Kando,Business Development Manager at Verbatim,describes how far the lighting technology has come in such a short time. Light-emitting diodes(LEDs)have become an ...
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