Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has demonstrated a 1-sun photovoltaic (PV) solar energy conversion efficiency of 15.3% using a gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: GaAs, PV, Electronics
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is sampling a new dual micro-ITLA (integrable tunable laser assembly) featuring a 25% reduction in size and 1 Watt lower power ...
Tags: Oclaro, networks, Electronics
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is sampling its second-generation tunable SFP+ module operating at very high temperatures of up to 85°C with very low power ...
Tags: Oclaro SFP+transceiver, CDR, Electronics
Researchers in Europe have developed a low-temperature plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PAMBE) process for direct growth of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) on silicon (Si) substrates [Pavel Aseev et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, ...
Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which designs and makes analog and RF devices, mixed-signal integrated circuits and subsystems for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets) has entered into a definitive ...
Tags: Microsemi, Vitesse, Electronics
Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes nanostructure-based CIGS (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film solar modules and provider of turnkey photovoltaic solutions, has completed a 228kW commercial rooftop solar project ...
Tags: Stion CIGSSe, ISO 9001, Electronics
Total global solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity is forecast to reach 498 gigawatts (GW) in 2019, which is 177% higher than 2014, according to IHS. While total global solar PV demand is projected to grow steadily, the large number of discrete ...
Tags: Solar PV Capacity, solar Cell
Teledyne Scientific & Imaging and test instrument maker Teledyne LeCroy of of Chestnut Ridge, NY, USA (a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc) say that researchers at the Microwave Electronics Lab at Chalmers University of Technology in ...
Tags: Wireless Transmission, Electronics
Zhejiang University in China and University of Cambridge in the UK have jointly developed ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) based on metal-semiconductor Schottky junctions between silver nanowires (AgNWs) and gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) is ramping up production of its 100G LR4 CFP4 client-side transceivers. Oclaro says that, having previously delivered CFP and ...
Tags: Oclaro CFP2, Transceivers
LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has announced sampling and volume availability of its phosphor-converted (PC) LED chip series. The series launches with PC Amber, PC Green and PC Red LED chips in a 40mil (1mm ...
For full-year 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $508.2m, up 10.7% on $459m for 2013. 5N Plus provides purified metals such as bismuth, gallium, ...
Tags: 5N Plus, Commodity Pricing
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung - or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research - Baden-Württemberg) of Stuttgart, Germany has boosted the efficiency of cadmium-free copper indium gallium diselenide ...
Tags: ZSW CIGS, Solar Cells
Researchers from Germany and the UK claim record long wavelengths of 7μmfor interband cascade lasers (ICLs) based on indium arsenide (InAs) heterostructures [Matthias Dallner et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p041108, 2015]. Devices with ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany claims that it has achieved one of the best values in the world in terms of forward voltage for blue high-current chips, leading to an increase in efficiency of up to 8%. Optimized ...