Wide-bandgap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) offer far higher performance than traditional silicon but cost significantly more. However, by 2020 GaN costs will drop enough for it to become competitive based on ...
Tags: Bulk GaN, traditional silicon, gallium nitride, reckons market
Solid-state devices such as LEDs are subject to very limited wear and tear if operated at low currents and at low temperatures. Many of the LEDs made in the 1970s and 1980s are still in service today. Typical lifetimes quoted are 25,000 to ...
Tags: LED, Light emitting diode
Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
Tags: food, drink, wasted, Packaging, flexible plastics, keeping food fresh
Deutsche Edelstahlwerke operates the world's first 3 roll block with hydraulic roll adjustment under load from SMS Meer, Germany. The so called PSM ® (Precision Sizing Mill) system replaced two 3 roll blocks at the Siegen-Geisweid ...
Tags: roll block, hydraulic roll, PSM, Precision Sizing Mill
European glass container molds manufacturer Omco Group will use Nikon’s LC50Cx digital line scanner to digitize customers' bottle designs, reducing the lead-time from receipt of order to delivery of the finished moulds. The LC50Cx ...
Tags: Bottle Design, Nikon Scanner, Omco, Packaging
Picture doing a remote software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is a robotic rover sitting 350 million miles away, on the surface of Mars. That's what a team of programmers and engineers at NASA are dealing ...
Tags: remote software, Mars rover Curiosity, NASA, flight software
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 ...
Tags: nitride semiconducto, VCSEL, electrical
With the Mars Curiosity rover's science instruments working well, NASA engineers are getting ready for two big tests of their robotic rover -- blasting a rock with a laser beam and getting the rover moving. Curiosity's first drive will be ...
Tags: NASA, Mars Curiosity, science instruments, laser beam
Sunice is pleased to unveil its 2013 Outerwear and Silver Polos collections, and introduces EDGE, a new collection with a trimmer fit. The Sunice Golf 2013 men's color palette uses updated blues, sedona and purple to brighten up collections ...
Tags: Sunice Outerwear collections EDGE, 2013 Outerwear, ladies outerwear
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
GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of analog semiconductor and optical components enabling high-speed end-to-end information streaming over optical fiber and wireless networks)says it has experimentally demonstrated the ...
Tags: GigOptix, modulator co-packaged, San Jose, CA, POLYSYS EU Program
Optical communications and laser component,module and subsystem maker Oclaro Inc of San Jose,CA,USA has announced a second-generation 100G CFP(Centum Gbit/s form-factor pluggable)transceiver and first-generation CFP2 100G transceiver for ...
Tags: Oclaro CFP2 CFP, Optical Communications and Laser Component, USA
Hitachi has developed a glass-based data storage medium that is highly heat and water resistant, capable of holding data for hundreds of millions of years, and says it may be able to bring it to market by 2015. The company's main research ...
Tags: Hitachi, data storage medium, 2015
SES Multi Metal Stock Ltd has secured a GBP 302,000 order to supply expertise and Stainless Steel laser cut parts for the upgrade and extension to the Liverpool waste water treatment works for United Utilities Group plc. The contract was ...
Tags: SES, Multi Metal Stock, Stainless Steel laser cut parts
The Philippine Trade and Investment Center (PTIC) in Jakarta recently reported to the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) capital office that a renowned manufacturer and exporter of Philippine embroidery gained recognition for ...
Tags: Philippine Trade and Investment Center, Philippine embroidery