Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...
Tags: InGaN Laser diodes, cw, SINANO
Researchers in Russia have developed an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum well laser diode on (001) germanium-on-silicon 'virtual substrate' without offcut angle [V. Ya. Aleshkin et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p061111, 2016]. ...
Tags: InGaAs, Laser diodes, III-Vs-on-Si
PV market demand plunged rapidly as expected as it entered in the third quarter, driving significant price decline across the PV supply chain. Prices of solar cells and wafer have reached new low for consecutive weeks. Consequently, ...
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The Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has teamed up with Italian design brand Alessi to create a colourful and quirky collection of tableware and kitchen products. The ‘Alessi Circus’ collection consists of 29 products including ...
Born Licensing's David Born looks at why more and more firms are turning to iconic toys and games, like G.I. Joe and Operation, to help drive advertising campaigns. It’s not uncommon to see toys and games in advertising. In fact, ...
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA have claimed record transconductance for III-V fin field-effect transistors (finFETs) when normalized according to fin width [Alon Vardi and Jesús A. del Alamo, ...
Vetropack Group significantly enhanced its revenue in the first half of 2016. Vetropack Italia, a member of the Group since early August 2015, making a major contribution of over 10%. Net sales from goods and services amounted to CHF ...
At a time when dairy companies have struggled with the continued European oversupply of milk, Arla has strengthened the quality and profitability of its business. Arla’s strategic branded sales grew 6.1 per cent in the first half of ...
Tags: Arla, dairy, positive results
Mock-up images of Eleven and Barb from the hit Netflix sci-fi series emerged from the firm's official Instagram account. Fans of the throwback and 80s, cross your fingers in unison: Funko may just be working on a Stranger Things Pop! ...
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The Furniture Ombudsman’s pool of retail members grew by 13.5% in 2015, according to the latest figures. The Furniture Ombudsman managed a total of 3968 disputes in 2015. Some of the product categories disputes were filed under ...
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University of Montpellier in France claims the first continuous-wave (cw) operation at room temperature of a 15μm indium arsenide (InAs) quantum cascade laser (QCL) [Alexei N. Baranov et al, Optics Express, vol. 24, p18799, 2016]. "To ...
Tags: University of Montpellier, InAs, MBE
Mineheart is set to launch an enticing new collection at this year’s 100% Design in London where they will be unveiling a stunning new mural collection created in collaboration with paper artist Simon Schubert, as well as new ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has used limited-area epitaxy (LAE) on semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) substrates to reduce misfit dislocation (MD) densities in multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting ...
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
Identifying the potential for running pumps as turbines originated because companies wanted to assess the impact on their systems if a pump stopped and went into reverse operation. One international pump manufacturer decided to examine the ...