University of Oklahoma in the USA has developed interband cascade (IC) lasers on indium arsenide (InAs) substrates with low threshold and high-current operation [Lu Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p251102, 2015]. The researchers claim ...
University of Oklahoma in the USA has developed interband cascade (IC) lasers on indium arsenide (InAs) substrates with low threshold and high-current operation [Lu Li et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p251102, 2015]. The researchers claim ...
US-based Kettering University's Advanced Power Electronics Lab (APEL) has joined hands with German automotive lighting and electronic products firm HELLA for bringing about an innovation towards charging electric vehicles (EV). HELLA has ...
Researchers in China and Hong Kong have claimed the highest output power density and power-added efficiency reported to date for gallium nitride (GaN)-based enhancement-mode metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors ...
Tags: GaN MIS-HEMTs, PECVD ALD MOCVD
Japan's Toyoda Gosei Co Ltd has developed vertical gallium nitride (GaN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) capable of handling 50A forward current with 790V reverse blocking [Nariaka Tanaka et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol8, p071001, 2014]. "To ...
Tags: Vertical Schottky barrier, power supply, diodes Free standing
Researchers have showcased their solutions for easier detection of salmonella in food, as part of the US Food and Drug Administration's first Food Safety Challenge. The winning solution will get cash reward of $400,000. The Purdue ...
Tags: food safety, semiconductor, agriculture, food manufacture
A scientist from James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to undertake research on the fundamental mechanisms that underpin the inheritance of genetic characteristics ...
Drinking alcohol while pregnant is common, ranging from 20% to 80% among those questioned in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, reveals a study of almost 18,000 women. The research found in Volume 5, Issue 7 of BMJ Open and lead ...
Tags: PRAMS, Drinking alcohol
A new study reveals that drinking low-calorie cranberry juice cocktail may help lower the risk of chronic diseases that rank among the leading causes of death worldwide, including heart disease, diabetes and stroke. To discover the extent ...
A new study reported by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has found increased supply to be the main cause behind global obesity problems. In a report just published in the July 2015 Bulletin of WHO, researchers based in New Zealand ...
Tags: human health, global obesity, food energy supply, fitness equipment
A new Israeli study on the ability of a coral reef to eject its internal organs when it gets stressed could lead to advances in human tissue regeneration, especially in the digestive track. A recent Tel Aviv University study published in ...
When you’re having trouble sleeping, light is the last thing you assume you need. But according to a pilot study attempting to solve insomnia among lung cancer patients led by University at Buffalo sleep researcher Grace Dean, light ...
Tags: Green LED, Improving Sleep Quality, LED
US document management major Xerox has introduced a Cloud-enabled performance management application ‘CitySight’ with data analytics capability to aid parking enforcement personnel to support safety and urban mobility. Being ...
Tags: Xerox, CitySight, Urban Mobility
AkzoNobel’s contribution to fusing modern technology with classic painting techniques were celebrated in Amsterdam during a special viewing of Vincent Van Gogh’s newly-restored Field with Irises near Arles. As part of the ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has improved hole concentrations in p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) by using indium as a surfactant in ammonia-based molecular beam epitaxy (NH3MBE) [Erin C. H. Kyle et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Tags: Gallium Nitride, Indium Surfactant