The invention is directed to a process for making a dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The material is chosen for its ability to permit electrostatic attraction and repulsion to take place across it. The ...
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Engineers at Imec and IBM have independently developed new manufacturing processes for making the next decade's leading chips, they revealed late last year. These efforts will allow the marriage of silicon wafers and certain exotic ...
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An electric supercapacitor module is utilized as the primary power source for the propulsion unit of electrically powered vehicles. The vehicle operates in conjunction with roadway embedded wireless chargers which continually chargeThe ...
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Electronic capacitors are one of the most widely used forms of electronics components. However there are many different types of capacitor including electrolytic, ceramic, tantalum, plastic, sliver micaMineral silicates H2KA13(Si04 )3 ...
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Despite graphene's many impressive properties, its lack of a bandgap limits its use in electronic applications. In a new study, scientists have theoretically shown that a bandgap can be opened in graphene by folding 2D graphene sheets ...
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Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXWL), a leading developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage products, announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SK Innovation, a subsidiary of SK ...
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Storage elements that buffer energy of the most diverse forms, and make it available for subsequent conversion processes, are significant components in modern power supplies and frequencyThe number of complete cycles or vibrations per unit ...
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The European Space Agency’s Swarm expedition was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 22 November, on a mission to study how the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere vary in time and space. It started sending back data four ...
At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been using limited area epitaxy (LAE) to improve the performance of lasers diodes (LDs) grown on free-standing semipolar (20-21) gallium nitride (GaN) substrates [Matthew T. Hardy et al, J. ...
Japan’s Tottori University has produced blue-green light-emitting diode (LED) structures using zinc sulfide telluride (ZnSTe) material [Kunio Ichino et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p112102, 2013]. The researchers see their work as ...
RWTH Aachen University has reported the first small-signal response frequency characteristics for p-channel gallium nitride (GaN) heterostructure field-effect transistors (HFETs) [Herwig Hahn et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol52, p128001, ...
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Quantum dots are nano-sized semiconductor particles whose emission color can be tuned by simply changing their dimensions. They feature near-unity emission quantum yields and narrow emission bands, which result in excellent color purity. ...
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Hawaiian Organic Noni has announced the discovery of a new superfruit, one that contains many anti-aging antioxidants. These reside in Noni Fruit Leather. The company has recently completed laboratory testing to ascertain the antioxidant ...
Researchers in Taiwan have used nanopyramid nitride semiconductor structures to explore long-wavelength green, olivine and amber light-emitting diode (LED) structures [Shih-Pang Chang, Optics Express, Vol. 21, p23030, 2013]. The team was ...
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