Researchers based in UK, France, Australia and the USA have developed a chemical epitaxial lift-off (ELO) technique for full 2-inch-diameter gallium nitride (GaN) grown on sapphire and free-standing substrates [Akhil Rajan et al, J. Phys. ...
Tags: GaN, HVPE, free-standing wafers
The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
Solmates of Science Park Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands (a spin-off from the MESA+ Institute of Nanotechnology) has received an order for one of its pulsed laser deposition (PLD) equipment systems from nanoelectronics research center ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has launched the EPC2040 power transistor, ...
Tags: Transistor, power transistor
Ferroelectric materials have applications in next-generation electronics devices from optoelectronic modulators and random access memory to piezoelectric transducers and tunnel junctions. Now researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...
When Chris Carlen developed an enthusiasm for flashlights containing high-power LEDs, he didn’t anticipate that his hobby interest would lead to the creation of a new, high-speed LED driver delivering lighting performance that exceeds ...
Tags: Sandia, LED Pulser, lighting
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has for the first time, it is claimed, combined a novel synthesis process with commercial electron-beam lithography techniques to produce arrays of semiconductor junctions ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, Heterojunctions
OSI Laser Diode Inc (LDI) of Edison, NJ, USA (an OSI Systems Company) has launched the SCW 1632-350R high-power pulsed laser diode module for optical testing applications. Housed in a 14-pin butterfly package, the ridge waveguide (RWG) ...
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) ...
Finnish thin film coating specialist Picodeon Ltd Oy has developed its ultra-short pulsed laser deposition (USPLD) surface coating technology to be able to create either porous or dense aluminum oxide (Al2O3) coatings on heat-sensitive ...
Finnish thin film coating specialist Picodeon Ltd Oy has developed its ultra-short pulsed laser deposition (USPLD) surface coating technology to be able to create either porous or dense aluminium oxide (Al2O3) coatings on heat-sensitive ...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are revealing the mysteries of new materials using ultra-fast laser spectroscopy, similar to high-speed photography where many quick images reveal subtle movements and changes ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Engineers intrigued by the toughness of mollusc shells, which are composed of brittle minerals, have found inspiration in their structure to make glass 200 times stronger than a standard pane. Counter-intuitively, the glass is ...
Tags: AFP, 3D, Nature Communication, brittleness
Applications in imaging and sensing typically involve the emission of light at a different wavelength than the excitation, or "secondary light emission." The interpretation of resonant secondary light emission in terms of fundamental ...
Tags: Secondary Light Emission, Light Emission, by Plasmonic Nanostructures
In cooperation with PVD Products of Wilmington, MA, USA, Finland-based nanotech firm Picodeon Ltd Oy, which specializes in thin-film coatings and surface treatments, has developed the ColdAb Series 4 thin-film deposition system, which is ...
Tags: PLD, Electrical, Electronics