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RIT's Jing Zhang Wins NSF Career Award for Research on UV Photonics
May 18, 2018Jing Zhang, a faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, has received a CAREER award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for work to develop new, highly efficient ultraviolet light sources. Zhang’s NSF award of ...
Tags: UV LEDs, UV Photonics
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High Yields and Nutritional Quality of Leafy Greens Achievable Using Lumileds's LUXEON SunPlus LEDs
Dec 7, 2017The results of a controlled horticulture lighting study conducted by the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA have ...
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University of Michigan Predicts Incorporating Boron in Ingan Increases LED Efficiency at High Power
Nov 24, 2017Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
Tags: LEDs, LED Efficiency
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RIT Awarded NSF Grant for ICP-RIE Etch System for Photonics and Nanoelectronic Device R&D
Oct 12, 2016Jing Zhang, an engineering faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, has received a $305,000 grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to acquire an inductively coupled plasma reactive-ion etching (ICP-RIE) system for ...
Tags: RIT, NSF, ICP-RIE system
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LESA ERC Develops High-Speed VLC Link with Integrated Microchip Receiver
Sep 20, 2016The Center for Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA), an Engineering Research Center (ERC) funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) headquartered at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, recently achieved ...
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Claims First Carbon Nanotube Transistors to Outperform Silicon
Sep 7, 2016For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...
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NSF Grants $2m to Project to Fabricate Chip-Scale Integrated Sic Quantum Photonic Processors
Aug 12, 2016Under a four-year, $2m grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Qiang Lin, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in the University of Rochester's Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, will lead a ...
Tags: SiC Quantum computing
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Nano-GaN Power Electronic Devices Project Aims to Save Energy
Apr 3, 2015Funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), Invest Northern Ireland (InvestNI) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) government agencies through the US-Ireland R&D Partnership program, over €1m has been awarded for the project ...
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CVD Is Entering Into an Industrial Partnership with Penn State University
Mar 13, 2015CVD Equipment Corp of Central Islip, NY, USA (a designer and maker of equipment for developing and manufacturing electronic components, materials and coatings for research and industrial applications) is entering into an industrial ...
Tags: CVD Equipment, 2D materials
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UCLA Developes a Photodetector That Uses Thin Coatings of Solution-Processed Material
Nov 25, 2014Led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr Professor of Engineering at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a photodetector that ...
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Riverside Researchers Are Part of Team Recently Awarded a Grant of Almost $1.7m
Aug 15, 2014Three University of California, Riverside researchers are part of team recently awarded a grant of almost $1.7m from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to characterize, analyze and synthesize a new class of ultra-thin-film materials ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics
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Sic-Based ICS Operable at Over 350ºC
Jun 16, 2014Researchers at the University of Arkansas have designed integrated circuits that can survive at temperatures greater than 350°C (about 660°F). Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), their work could improve the ...
Tags: SiC Power electronics HEV, Electrical, Electronics, circuits
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A Way to Use Standard Semiconductors to Detect Light Has Been Developed
Apr 22, 2014Researchers at Georgia State University, the University of Leeds and China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a way to use standard semiconductors to detect light over a much broader range of wavelengths, potentially opening up ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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Argonne and University Have Co-Developed Inexpensive Material
Feb 21, 2014The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have co-developed inexpensive material that has the potential to capture and convert solar energy — particularly from the bluer part ...
Tags: Solar Cells, High-Energy Photons
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IQE Presented a Joint Paper on a New Type of Transistor
Dec 17, 2013At 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 ...
Tags: Low-Power Tunneling Transistor, Electrical, Electronics