An extensive experimental database of inorganic thin-film materials that organizes a decade’s worth of research at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is now publicly available (‘An open ...
Tags: Thin-film, PV, Thin-Film Materials
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique) and EPFL (école Polytechnique ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Microtechnology
Results of a new study further support the health-promoting role that MGP’s Fibersym RW, a patented Non-GMO Project Verified resistant wheat starch, can perform as a dietary fiber source. Conducted independently at South Dakota ...
Chien-Chung Lin, Huang-Yu Lin, Kuo-Ju Chen, Sheng-Wen Wang, Kuan-Yu Wang, Jie-Ru Li, Huang-Ming Chen and Hao-Chung Kuo The use of distributed Bragg reflectors in remote-phosphor white-LED packaging significantly improves luminous ...
Tags: White LED Packaging
Shigeya Kimura, Hisashi Yoshida, Toshihide Ito, Aoi Okada, Kenjiro Uesugi and Shinya Nunoue Metal organic chemical vapor deposition is used to grow aluminum gallium nitride interlayers within indium gallium nitride/gallium nitride ...
The US Department of Energy's (DoE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Tennessee, has improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride ...
Tags: Solar Cells, vacuum-seal
French dairy company Danone is planning to introduce Indian dessert 'Mishti Doi' or sweet yogurt in the European market. Danone is piloting a project to launch the Indian dairy products in a few international markets. Currently, the ...
Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has signed a definitive ...
Tags: TowerJazz Panasonic, CMOS, Semiconductor
Researchers from Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute and Deakin University in Melbourne, have performed a study to assess the effect of dairy fat and soy oil on circulating postprandial lipids in men (Meikle et al., 2015). The study was ...
Eindhoven University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, or TU/e) and FOM Foundation have presented a prototype of a solar cell that produces fuel rather than electricity (Anthony Standing et al., 'Efficient water reduction ...
In cooperation with international partners, Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland have presented what is claimed to be the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of ...
Tags: Group-IV Lasers, clock signal, Electrical
Researchers have demonstrated how noise in a microwave amplifier is limited by self-heating at very low temperatures (J Schleeh et al, ‘Phonon black-body radiation limit for heat dissipation in electronics’, Nature Materials, 10 ...
Tags: Microwave Amplifier, transistor
The research group of professor Jairo Sinova of the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in collaboration with researchers from the UK, Prague, and Japan, has realised for the first time a new, efficient spin-charge ...
Tags: Spin-Charge Converter, GaAs, Electronics
A hybrid form of perovskite - the same type of material that has recently been found to make highly efficient solar cells that could replace silicon - has been used to make low-cost, easily manufactured LEDs, potentially opening up a wide ...
Tags: Perovskite Material, LEDs
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have combined two semiconductor materials, each consisting of a layer just three atomic thick, to create a new structure that holds promise for a new kind of solar ...
Tags: Thin-film PV, Electrical, Electronics