“Not only did the retailers get really excited about it, but the press interest has been off the scale." RC specialist Flying Gadgets has declared Toy Fair 2015 its most successful to date having been "overwhelmed" by reactions to ...
Tags: X-Voice Reaction, Toys
McGill University in Canada claims to have created the first electrically injected rolled-up semiconductor tube laser [M. H. T. Dastjerdi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p021114, 2015]. Although rolled-up heterostructure lasers have been ...
Tags: optical pumping, tube lasers, Electrical
Daniel Feezell, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a $500,000 US National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, ...
Tags: gallium nitride, Electrical
Building on its XLamp MH family of LEDs, Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the XLamp MHD-E and MHD-G high-power LEDs, which combine the high lumen density and reliability of a ceramic chip-on-board LED with the design and ...
Tags: LED Components, Electrical
Princeton Optronics Inc of Mercerville, NJ, USA, which manufactures high-power single- and multi-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and VCSEL arrays, says it is working with Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects ...
Tags: 3D space, mobile devices, Electrical
Researchers at Japan's NTT Device Technology Laboratories have used silicon (Si) doping to achieve p-type conduction in gallium arsenide antimony (GaAsSb) produced with metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) on indium phosphide ...
Sterilization Validation Services Sterilization Validation Services (SVS) announces their newly added capabilities. Sterilization Validation Services (SVS) which provides validation and support services to the Pharmaceutical, Medical ...
Tags: equipment selection, medical device packaging systems, Health
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has concluded the renegotiation of a long-term supply contract with an existing tier-1 customer for the supply of wafer products used in wireless applications. The new ...
Tags: wireless applications, long-term customer relationship, Electrical
The University of Nottingham unveiled its new Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) machine, capable of reaching the high temperatures required to grow grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of ...
Tags: Large-Area Graphene Sheets, crystal lattice, Electrical
X-Voice can be controlled in flight by a microphone and responds to commands such as ‘take-off’, ‘come back’ and ‘flip forward’. A voice-controlled quadcopter will be swooping in to the London Toy Fair ...
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, says that at the end of December it received an order for an MBE412 system (for delivery in 2015) from ...
Tags: Electronics Equipment Maker, MBE412 system, Electrical
Jim Beam, a bourbon brand owned by Beam Suntory, has expanded its product range with the introduction of new Jim Beam Pre-Prohibition Style Rye. Bottled at 90-proof, new Jim Beam Rye is a pre-prohibition style Kentucky Straight Rye ...
Tags: Rye Whiskey, Jim Beam
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued Solar-Tectic LLC of Briarcliff Manor, NY, USA with a patent for technology that allows the growth of single-crystal semiconductor films on inexpensive substrates such as ...
Tags: Solar Cell Technology, thin-film specialist, Electrical
The worldwide automotive-use LED market (combination of before market and after market) is projected to reach US$2.5 billion by 2018, with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9% from 2014-2018. In particular the automotive LED value ...
Tags: LED Market, LED lightings, Lights
For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
Tags: LED Makers, Entry Level, Electrical