Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have combined two semiconductor materials, each consisting of a layer just three atomic thick, to create a new structure that holds promise for a new kind of solar ...
Tags: Thin-film PV, Electrical, Electronics
Now that the world has come to rely heavily on the Asian economy, countries in the region need to contribute to its stability if they wish to win investor confidence. One company acutely aware of this is General Motors. America's largest ...
Tags: Asian Economy
Maxwell Technologies, Inc. has added to the company's K2 series of ultracapacitor cells with a 2.85-volt, 3400-faradUnit of capacitance. The basic unit of a measure of a capacitor. A capacitor charged to 1 volt with a charge of 1 coulombA ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
At the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has reported what are claimed to be the highest-performing III-V metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs). The research ...
Apple Inc. expects to join Samsung and Sony in the wearables territory this fall, with a tentative October launch date scheduled for its long-rumored gadget, Re/code reported. The consumer electronics company hopes to hold an event that ...
Apple Inc. reportedly is planning to omit standard headphone jacks from future devices and instead force customers to use special headphones with the company's proprietary Lightning connector. Forbes reports the Cupertino, Calif.-based ...
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China's Nanjing University has produced silicon carbide (SiC) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with the lowest claimed dark count rate (DCR) at high temperatures of 150°C, compared with any other semiconductor material [Dong Zhou et al, ...
Researchers in Taiwan have produced zinc oxide/gallium nitride (ZnO/GaN) nano-rod light-emitting diodes [Ya-Ju Lee et al, APL Mater. vol2, p056101, 2014]. The researchers avoided complicated polymer processing by using a shadowing effect to ...
Tags: LED Fabrication, Zinc Oxide
Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy ...
Tags: Supercapacitor, electric car
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a structural supercapacitor that stores and releases electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the ...
Tags: Supercapacitor, Power Cords
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded ...
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the USA claim to have developed a fiber supercapacitor that can be woven into clothing and power ...
Demand for gallium is forecast to rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This strong growth is not, however, likely to result in any ...
Tags: Gallium Market, GaN-Based LED
Demand for gallium will rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes, but this strong growth is unlikely to result in any tightness in supply as the ...
Tags: Gallium, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Researchers based in Singapore and Turkey have demonstrated a last quantum barrier (LQB) structure for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that improves the electron blocking and hole injection of an aluminium ...
Tags: LEDs GaN InGaN MOCVD, Electrical, Electronics, LED