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First Solar Beats Its Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Reduction Target, While Reducing Manufacturing Energy Intensity

Aug 9, 2017

First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has released its annual sustainability report, ...

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Indium Gallium Arsenide Quantum Well Transistors on 300mm Silicon

May 18, 2017

Researchers in South Korea and the USA claim record 2190cm2/V-s effective mobility for indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum well (QW) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) on 300mm-diameter (100) silicon ...

Tags: Transistors, MOSFETs

RAM Group Introduces Full-Body Biometric Authentication Technology

May 9, 2017

RAM Group, Singaporean based technology firm, has announced a new breakthrough in biometric authentication based on a novel quantum-state sensor that exploits quantum mechanical properties to perform biometric authentication. These new ...

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Multi-Junction Si Solar Cell Efficiency Exceeds

Nov 12, 2016

Silicon-based solar cells dominates today’s solar energy industry, while this technology has difficulty in bringing the conversion efficiency beyond 23% for commercialized solar cells in mass production. In order to break the ...

Tags: Solar Cell, solar energy

Berkeley Lab-LED Team Fabricates Transistor with Record 1nm-Long Gate

Oct 12, 2016

A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a gate length (the defining dimension of a transistor) just 1nm long, ...

Tags: Berkeley Lab, transistor with record 1nm-long gate

US Army Grants Raytheon $1.1m to Develop GaN-Based Front-Ends for Next Generation Radar Program

Jul 12, 2016

The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has entered into a collaborative alliance via a $1.1m grant with Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA to develop Scalable, Agile, Multimode, Front End Technology (SAMFET) for the Army's Next Generation ...

Tags: ARL, next-generation radar systems

Freebird Partners with EPC to Develop Radiation-Hardened GaN Power Conversion Systems for Satellite and Harsh-Environment Applications

Apr 15, 2016

Freebird Semiconductor Corp of North Andover, MA, USA, which manufactures high-reliability gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) products for power semiconductor technologies in the commercial space-flight ...

Tags: EPC E-mode GaN FETs GaN-on-Si

Direct Growth Of III-V Quantum Dot Lasers On Silicon Substrate

Mar 15, 2016

Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...

Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE

EU's INSIGHT Project To Develop III-V Nanowire-Based CMOS On Silicon System-on-Chip

Mar 9, 2016

Future radar imaging systems and 5G communication systems will generate improved resolution and provide higher data-transmission rates when operated at higher frequencies, but at the cost of increased power consumption. To reduce power ...

Tags: radar imaging systems, 5G communication systems

Researchers Find New Nanastructure Design to Improve LEDs and Solar Cell Efficiency

Dec 15, 2015

Light and electricity dance a complicated tango in devices like LEDs, solar cells and sensors. A new anti-reflection coating developed by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, in collaboration with researchers at the ...

Tags: anti-reflection coating, electronic device, semiconductor

Akhan Opens Hq and Production Facility for Diamond-Based Semiconductor Technology

Nov 24, 2015

AKHAN Semiconductor Inc of Chicago, IL, USA has formally opened its new global headquarters and production facility at 940 Lakeside Drive in Gurnee, Illinois, after beginning operations there in June. The firm also says that its first ...

Tags: Akhan, diamond semiconductor

ASU Researchers Demonstrate White Lasers that Could Potentially Replace LEDs

Nov 12, 2015

While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light. Researchers at Arizona State ...

Tags: ASU, White Lasers, LEDs

Arming The Solid-State Lighting Revolution

Nov 5, 2015

Can you consider light as a product, ready to pick up from the shelf and take home? You can't touch or hold it, but being able to use it whenever needed has been vital to the progress of humanity. Light sources have progressed from candles ...

Tags: Lighting market, LED demand, displays

Game-Changer: The Market Impact of The Blue LED

Nov 5, 2015

When asked whether he had envisioned the impact that his revolutionary blue LED would have in years to come, new Nobel physics laureate Shuji Nakamura’s answer was in typically modest and candid. “No!” he replied in a ...

Tags: blue LED, zinc selenide, semiconductor material, LED lighting

Japan's Rohm Started Mass Production of Silicon Carbide Mosfet

Jun 9, 2015

Japan's Rohm Co Ltd has started mass production of what it claims is the first silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) with a trench structure (where the gate is formed on the sidewall of a groove in ...

Tags: ROHM Semiconductor SiC power MOSFET, Sic Mosfet

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