Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
Tags: GaAsP solar cells, GaAsP, MBE, MOCVD
Warner Bros revealed at Gamescom that Supergirl will be joining PS4 Starter Packs for a limited time. LEGO has added a new bonus DC Comics Supergirl minifigure to its LEGO Dimensions Starter Packs for PS4. Warner Bros. Interactive ...
Tags: Supergirl, PS4 Starter Packs, LEGO
The firm has designed a system that shoots a beam of light from a hilt, echoing the weapons favoured by Jedi and Sith within the Star Wars universe. Disney has taken the first steps to making every Star Wars fan’s dream a reality ...
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UK-based LED maker Plessey's new Orion beam forming module has been shortlisted in two categories (Manufacturer of the Year and Enabling technology of the Year) in the 2016 Lux Awards, which celebrate and reward creativity and ...
Researchers based in UK, France, Australia and the USA have developed a chemical epitaxial lift-off (ELO) technique for full 2-inch-diameter gallium nitride (GaN) grown on sapphire and free-standing substrates [Akhil Rajan et al, J. Phys. ...
Tags: GaN, HVPE, free-standing wafers
For second-quarter 2016, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $75.3m, down 8.6% on $78m last quarter and 42.7% on $131.4m a year ago, consistent with ...
Tags: Veeco, LED industry
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) say that they have developed a new method for making brighter and more efficient green LEDs (R. Liu and C. Bayram, 'Maximizing cubic phase gallium nitride surface coverage ...
Tags: Green LEDs, MOCVD
As part of its three-pillar strategy announced last November, Osram GmbH of Munich, Germany is further expanding the leading position of its Specialty Lighting (SP) business by agreeing to acquire Novità Technologies of ...
Tags: Osram, LED Module
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has received an order for a Compact 21T MBE research system for delivery in 2016 to a laboratory in ...
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has introduced chip-on-board (COB) arrays that use CrispColor Technology to deliver rich, saturated colors. As part of the new LUXEON Stylist Series, this new approach to lighting caters ...
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The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported a 23% rise in revenue from €5.7m in first-half 2015 to €7m in first-half 2016, ...
Tags: Riber MBE, molecular beam epitaxy
With the re-grouping of teams from III-V Lab (the joint Alcatel-Lucent, Thales and CEA-Leti industrial research laboratory), Almae Technologies SAS is taking over III-V Lab's facilities at Marcoussis, which is sited on the Plateau de Saclay ...
Tags: CEA-Leti, III-V Lab, laser components
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
Tags: semiconductors, Electronics
LeddarTech unveiled key insights about its LeddarCore IC roadmap, which can enable low-cost, high-performance solid-state LiDARs for multiple automotive safety applications—from ADAS to autonomous driving. During the Sensors EXPO ...
Tags: Autonomous Driving, LeddarCore ICs