Semiconductor maker Entropic has teamed with Netgear to introduce what they call "the first MoCA 2.0 certified product on the market" – the Netgear WM2500RP MoCA-to-Wi-Fi extender. Available now through service providers, the ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Semiconductor
Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $41.5m for full-year 2013, down 38% on $67.2m for 2012. ...
Tags: optical products, increasing utilization, competitive landscape
The use of semiconductors in optoelectronic applications has had a bit of thickness problem. For photovoltaics, the need for relatively thick semiconductor thin films has added some significant cost to their manufacture. In other ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, optoelectronic
Engineers trying to speed up communication between computer chips have been working on using beams of light to replace the copper traces that shuttle data between microprocessors. Now a pair of researchers at Northeastern University in ...
lllustration: University of Colorado Boulder Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a model of a thermoelectric material that can insulate itself from heat transfers while still allowing electricity to flow. Such ...
Tags: Nanopillars, Thermoelectric Material, conducting electricity, voltage
What people who are increasingly demanding graphene commercialization avenues often miss is that a good portion of the research into the “wonder material” remains just figuring out what it can do. In the continuing research to ...
Tags: Graphene Films, Wireless Networks, Security
New research led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng has led to the discovery of a new material that could have significant implications for a variety of challenges, from carbon dioxide storage to planetary science and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
While everyone loves a good mystery, keeping engineers guessing as to which breakthroughs will shape future electronic component design can only benefit the makers of antacids. And while it’s hard to predict that a given research ...
Tags: RF Circuits, Graphene-Based
Electron microscopy and spectroscopy are great tools for peering into matter on the molecular scale. But they’re not terribly effective if that matter happens to be biological. Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago ...
Tags: Clear Image, Biomolecule, liquid stage, microscope
IBM has built on their previous graphene research and developed what is being reported as the best graphene-based integrated circuit (IC) built to date, with 10 000 times better performance than previously reported efforts. This ...
Tags: IBM Research, Silcon Technology, IC, THz
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was America's most generous donor in 2013, giving nearly $1 billion of his fortune to charity, according to a magazine report on Monday. The Chronicle of Philanthropy, which tracks charitable ...
Tags: Facebook, Zuckerberg, Donations, Warren Buffett
Google has ended a trial run of transporting workers to the company's Silicon Valley campus by water, and it's unclear whether the tech giant will continue the ferry service. The monthlong pilot program, which took employees from San ...
Tags: Google, ferry service, bus stop, East Bay
Austrian plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that in the last quarter of 2013 three continuous slab casters were put into operation at Chinese steel producer Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group Corp (TISCO). Two of the casters ...
Tags: Siemens Metals, plantmaker
The global market for power discrete devices will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.43% over 2013-2018, forecasts a new report from TechNavio (the market research platform of Infiniti Research Ltd). According to the ...
GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystal growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired exclusive rights ...
Tags: LED Wafer Production, epiwafers