Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his team at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a low-cost production technology for thin-film blue flexible vertical ...
Mercedes-Benz Cars is extending its capacities for electric cars in Europe with an investment of about €500m to manufacture electric compact car at Hambach plant in France. The Hambach plant in France will produce a compact electric ...
A team of researchers at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates has developed a new solar photovoltaic 'step cell' that combines two ...
A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
Tags: GaN p-n junction diodes, GaN Power Switches, solid-state lighting
More than 13 GW of solar power generating capacity is now in place across the US, after 2013 witnessed a record 4.8 GW of installations, including some 2.8 GW in utility-scale projects. The explosive growth figures come from GTM ...
Tags: Photovoltaics, solar power, Electricity
The method helps discovering the most efficient lamps, which may save billions in lighting costs in the future. Researchers at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have succeeded in developing a method which helps ...
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Schaeffler has introduced a new P2 high-voltage hybrid module that is arranged between the internal combustion engine and transmission, and is capable of transmitting internal-combustion torques of up to 800 Nm to the transmission. This ...
VisIC Technologies Ltd of Rehovot, Israel, a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) metail-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) founded in 2010, has unveiled what it ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, power transistor
Audi will showcase its technology concept car TT Clubsport Turbo at Reifnitz, Austria during the Worthersee Tour slated between May 13 and 16. The vehicle, which draws its inspiration from Audi 90 IMSA GTO of the late 1980s, is powered ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that during first-quarter 2015 it received multiple new long-term purchase orders worth up to $3m for its antimonide substrate materials. The purchase orders are from ...
Tags: Infrared Products, LEDs
Aston Martin Racing (AMR) and Hanergy have agreed to extend their partnership in the UK to further develop the capability of solar panels equipped on Aston Martin GTE racing car roof. First announced in June last year, the partnership ...
Tags: Aston Martin, Solar Car Project
Lawrence Livermore researchers have identified electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See CoulombA coulomb is the unit of electric ...
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Goodyear has introduced two concept tires dubbed BHO3 and Triple Tube at the 85th Geneva International Motor Show. The BHO3 is aimed at the growing electric car market, which is designed to eliminate the vehicle-range related problems in ...
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With an expanding social infrastructure comes an increasing dependence on electrical energy. Against this backdrop many technologies now considered “indispensable” have emerged. Devices like converters for electrical power, and ...
Tags: Film Capacitors, Power Electronics
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, has begun to bundle a commercial ...
Tags: XsunX, CIGS Solar Systems