Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that in second-quarter 2013 it delivered a Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) reactor (ordered in fourth-quarter 2012) to the ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
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
Dual-colour lasers could pave way for more energy efficient LED lighting Researchers in the US have come up with a new semiconductor device that is capable of emitting two distinct colours and could potentially open up the possibility of ...
Tags: LED, LED lighting
A new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using LEDs universally for cheap and efficient lighting. The ...
Tags: LED Dual-color Lasers, LED Lightin, LED
In order to meet the growing demand for sustainable lighting, Technology Foundation STW and Philips have taken the initiative to form the ‘Advanced Sustainable Lighting Solutions’ . With eight recently approved research ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Lighting, LED
Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institut in Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have shown that a single core–shell p–i–n junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowire ...
Tags: Solar Cell, GaAs
In a development that could make the advanced form of secure communications known as quantum cryptography more practical, University of Michigan researchers – supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) - have demonstrated a ...
Tags: GaN nanowires, semiconductor processing techniques, semiconductor
Building solar voltaic cells from nanowires instead of standard metal conductors can increase the amount of energy the cells can capture by a factor of 15, according to a new study by scientists from the Nano-Science Center in Denmark. ...
Tags: metal conductors, Nanowires, Solar Cells
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden has unveiled SolInk, a nanomaterial that promises to boost the efficiency of crystalline silicon or thin-film solar modules by up to 25%, leading to solar power plants and rooftop solar ...
Tags: crystalline silicon, solar modules
Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that CEA-Leti, a research lab based in Grenoble, France, has selected Veeco’s TurboDisc K465i Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) system for its program with Aledia, its nanowire-LED ...
Tags: Veeco, Instruments, silicon wafer substrates
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that CEA-Leti, a world-renowned research lab based in Grenoble, France, has selected Veeco’s TurboDisc® K465i Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) system for its ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the research lab CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France, has selected Veeco’s TurboDisc K465i metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: LED technology, LED, LEDs
Building solar voltaic cells from nanowires instead of standard metal conductors can increase the amount of energy that can be captured by a factor of 15, according to a new study by scientists from the Nano-Science Center in Denmark. The ...
Tags: Nanowires, Solar Power, Computer
Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally. University of Pittsburgh and Delft University of Technology researchers reveal in the Feb. 17 online issue ...
Tags: new spin, nanoscale semiconductor structures, faster computers