The true hurdle of solar technology is being able to produce solar cells efficiently and at low cost. The present world technology doesn’t make solar cell production a bargain, but a new prototype by researchers at Stanford University ...
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For second-quarter 2012, NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems, exceeded its ...
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WaterField Designs, a leading San Francisco manufacturer of custom-fitted laptop sleeves, bags and cases for digital gear, announces a bevy of cases and bags sized to fit Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. SAN ...
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XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, says it recently completed assembly ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which manufactures lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) using flexible substrate materials, has appointed Robert Roche as vice ...
5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a producer of specialty metal and chemical products, says that its new Malaysian recycling facility is now operational. Located in the Kulim High Technology Park (one of Malaysia's highest-profile ...
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Sharp said Thursday it will soon launch a smartphone with its new IGZO display, a power-efficient technology that allows the device to last two days on a single charge and that is rumored to be Apple's choice for its upcoming tablets. ...
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In terms of mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, portfolio changes and investment projects, one of the most active sectors in the European coatings supply chain is dispersions. Despite a slow growth in demand for coatings, ...
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In the ongoing race to build ever better flat-screen displays, a potentially disruptive technology has made a small debut at IFA, the consumer electronics show currently taking place in Berlin. In a corner of the booth of Japan's Sharp ...
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University of California,Santa Barbara(UCSB)has demonstrated for the first time nonpolar m-plane(10-10)nitride semiconductor vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser(VCSEL)diodes[Casey Holder et al,Appl.Phys.Express,vol5,p092104,2012]. The ...
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17 September 2012 Arsenide nanowires on graphite and graphene Researchers at Norwegian University of Science and Technology(NTNU)have succeeded in growing gallium arsenide(GaAs)and indium arsenide(InAs)compound semiconductor crystal ...
Tags: GaAs Nanowires, Solar Cells LEDs, Graphitic Substrates, Graphene
Current bright blue LEDs are based on the wide band gap semiconductors GaN (gallium nitride) and InGaN (indium gallium nitride). They can be added to existing red and green LEDs to produce the impression of white light, though white LEDs ...
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has announced the deployment of 100 Gigabit ...
At the new copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) facility of the Solliance collaboration platform in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the first CIGS solar cells have been fabricated, demonstrating solar energy conversion efficiency of ...
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Researchers in the USA have achieved record transconductance and cut-off frequencies for indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) channel metal-oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs) [D.-H. Kim et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p223507, 2012]. ...