HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA says that its technology facility in Glenrothes, Scotland, UK has successfully tested silicon carbide (SiC) mixed-signal devices at temperatures up to 400°C. “Raytheon UK’s aim is to ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has received a$2.7m contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)to triple the power handling performance of ...
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 ...
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Current bright blue LEDs are based on the wide band gap semiconductors GaN (gallium nitride) and InGaN (indium gallium nitride). They can be added to existing red and green LEDs to produce the impression of white light, though white LEDs ...
Apple will seek billions of dollars in damages from Samsung when a high-profile patent lawsuit between the companies goes in front of a California jury next week. Details of Apple's claim were included in documents submitted overnight to ...
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SiC ceramic membrane specialist LiqTech International Inc has entered into a cooperation agreement with Denmarka's Provital Solution A/S to jointly penetrate the global market for pool and spa water filtration.Provital Solutions ...
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Pope Benedict XVI will extend his online presence to Twitter and start answering questions put to him via the social network in English and seven other languages. The official Papal handle is @pontifex, the Vatican announced on Monday, ...
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Cyber criminals are using compromised Twitter accounts to distribute messages disguised as coming from friends who suggest recipients click on a link to see themselves on a Facebook video. Sophos reported the trick after receiving a ...
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LONDON, ENGLAND, August 27, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Bulldog777 Casino has just added a selection of new games from CTXM to its already impressive line-up of Microgaming no-download casino games. The new instant-play games offer ...
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Electrical test instrument and system provider Keithley Instruments Inc of Cleveland, OH, USA has introduced seven instrumentation, software, and test fixture configurations for parametric curve tracing applications for characterizing high ...
Abstract The entire LED lighting supply chain can be divided into the following segments: rare earth, MOCVD equipment, sapphire ingots and substrates, LED chips, LED packaging, and LED lighting fixtures. This Digitimes Special Report ...
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Back in 1960 Electronics Weekly was born into a ferment of III-V semiconductor research that within two years would produce the first practical LED. In 1960 Dr Nick Holonyak of General Electric was developing an unusual material,GaAsP,as ...
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Fairchild Semiconductor of San Jose CA,USA,which makes silicon chips for power and mobile designs,is exhibiting its latest in silicon carbide(SiC)technology as well as over 15 power and mobile solutions in hall A-4,booth 506 at the ...
Researchers based in the USA and France have created graphene nanoribbon structures with regions that have relatively large energy bandgaps of about 0.5eV [J. Hicks et al, Nature Physics, published online 18 November 2012]. Flat graphene ...
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