Despite 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
Working with scientists in Texas and Warsaw, researchers at Finland’s Aalto University have made a breakthrough in revising methods largely discarded 15 years ago (‘Amphoteric Be in GaN: Experimental Evidence for Switching ...
Tags: GaN Power electronics
DataLase has collaborated with Xerox company Parc to develop inkless photonic printing solutions. The companies have signed a lease agreement to develop advanced photonic printing solutions based on the DataLase laser-reactive ...
Tags: DataLase, Photonic Printing
Topas Advanced Polymers and Polyplastics claim that discrete layers of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) significantly improve the performance in three- and five-layer packaging film structures made of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE). ...
Tags: LLDPE Packaging, Packaging
Glory Farms premium vegetables See-Thru can was named the winner of the 2017 Gama Innovation Award for Packaging at a gala celebration in Manchester, England. The Glory Farms package was chosen by an international panel of industry judges ...
Tags: vegetables, Packaging
The Ireland Government said it will spend €8.8m to establish a new food innovation hub, aimed to help the country’s food industry deal as it prepares for Brexit. Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine ...
At a roll-out event for customers and partners in Zurich, Flisom AG of Niederhasli, Switzerland – which has the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) as a technology partner – showcased its ...
Tags: Solar Panels, PV
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have used brewery waste to grow yeast required to make beer. A new process has been invented by scientists to turn spent brewery grains into a product that can ...
Tags: Liquid Nutrient, beer
The Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based consortium consisting of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), material suppliers, researchers and government stakeholders in the US ...
Tags: Power electronics, GaN, SiC
Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA claims the first demonstration of 1kV-class aluminium nitride (AlN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Houqiang Fu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 5 July 2017]. AlN has a wide bandgap of 6.2eV. ...
Tags: semiconductor, MOCVD
Scientist at the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have produced a batch of single-cell protein using electricity and carbon dioxide. Protein produced in this way can be further ...
Tags: electricity, carbon dioxide
Researchers in Russia claim “the first demonstration of an injection quantum well microdisk laser fabricated of III-V materials monolithically grown on silicon (001) substrate” [N. V. Kryzhanovskaya et al, Optics Express, vol. ...
Tags: silicon photonics, Lasers
Audi has joined hands with Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, to find out what is important for making optimal use of time in a self-driving car. The company started the 25th Hour, a project that is aimed at studying how to make ...
Tags: Audi, Self-Driving Car
Working in collaboration with LioniX International BV of Enschede, The Netherlands, researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute have developed what is claimed to be the most narrowband diode laser on a chip, ...
Tags: Narrowband Laser, Netherlands
PureCircle has developed the first commercially viable stevia antioxidant product providing food and beverage companies new access to health and wellness ingredients for their consumers. While researchers have known that antioxidants are ...