BAE Systems has signed a cooperative agreement with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for Phase 1 of a technical effort to transition gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology developed by the US Air Force to its Advanced ...
Tags: Microwave Products, GaN Technology
For second-quarter 2018, POET Technologies Inc of Toronto, Canada and San Jose, CA, USA — a designer and manufacturer of optoelectronic devices, including light sources, passive waveguides and photonic integrated circuits (PIC) for ...
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The shortwave infrared (SWIR) camera market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.1% during 2018-2025 (including linear cameras growing at 8.31%), according to a report from market research firm Esticast Research & ...
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The UK Government has launched a three-year review into driving laws in preparation for self-driving vehicles. With the detailed review, the government plans to make sure that the UK remains one of the best places in the world to develop, ...
Scientists at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in collaboration with Worrell Water Technologies, have developed a small plastic pouch designed to make produce safer. The pouch, which is only ...
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The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has demonstrated the ability to grow thin films of the transition-metal nitride Nb2N (niobium nitride). The thin crystalline material has a similar structure to gallium nitride (GaN), but its ...
Tags: Thin-Film Niobium Nitride, LED
Extending its expertise in high-brightness microdisplay technology for augmented-reality and other applications, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France is demonstrating what it claims is the first wide video graphic ...
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Driverless cars are set to hit UK roads in 2019 after a consortium of British companies unveiled plans to test the vehicles between London and Oxford. Driven, led by driverless software group Oxbotica, received a £8.6 million grant ...
Tags: Driverless Car, autonomous vehicle
Jing 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
Researchers in the USA have grown two-dimensional (2D) layers of gallium nitride (GaN) using a graphene encapsulation on silicon carbide (SiC) substrate [Zakaria Y. Al Balushi et al, Nature Materials, published online 29 August 2016]. The ...
Tags: 2D GaN, graphene encapsulation, SiC
As part of the Local Control of Materials Synthesis (LoCo) program of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU) have developed the new electron-enhanced atomic layer deposition ...
Cherkizovo Group, the largest vertically integrated meat and feed producer in Russia, announces its unaudited consolidated IFRS results for the period ending June 30, 2016. Second quarter financial highlights Revenue increased by 9% ...
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
With the re-grouping of teams from III-V Lab (the joint Alcatel-Lucent, Thales and CEA-Leti industrial research laboratory), Almae Technologies SAS is taking over III-V Lab's facilities at Marcoussis, which is sited on the Plateau de Saclay ...
Tags: CEA-Leti, III-V Lab, laser components
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Global Research Center in the USA "experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, bi-directional 4H-silicon carbide planar gate, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) fabricated on ...
Tags: Bipolar Transistor