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Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs.


New 'electronic glue' promises less expensive semiconductors

New 'electronic glue' promises less expensive semiconductors

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells ...


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Sony Develops World's Highest Optical Output 7.2W, 635nm Red Semiconductor Laser Array

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Sony Corporation today announced that it has developed a high-power, short-wavelength red semiconductor laser array diode, ideal for use as a light source in projection devices.


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Semiconductor revenue forecast to fall 17 pct

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline 17.1 percent this year compared with last year, market research firm Gartner said Wednesday.


Sharp Introduces New Solar Module for Mobile Devices

Sharp Introduces New Solar Module for Mobile Devices

Technology / Energy

created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sharp Corporation has developed and will introduce into the global market the new LR0GC02 Solar Module for Mobile Devices that features a thickness of 0.8 mm, the industry's thinnest level.


Researchers create smaller and more efficient nuclear battery

Researchers create smaller and more efficient nuclear battery

Technology / Energy

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are ...


Light sensor breakthrough could enhance digital cameras

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New research by a team of University of Toronto scientists could lead to substantial advancements in the performance of a variety of electronic devices including digital cameras.


The Wall Street Journal said Apple has been hiring new employees from the semiconductor industry

Apple 'to design own computer chips'

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Apple is building the capability to design its own computer chips in a strategic shift aimed at cutting its reliance on outside suppliers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.


Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor

Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated for the first time the existence of a key magnetic—as opposed to electronic—property of specially ...


Bottoms up: Better organic semiconductors for printable electronics

Bottoms up: Better organic semiconductors for printable electronics

Chemistry /

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Seoul National University have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment ...


New Southampton clean room to push the boundaries of technology

Scientists to work on non-volatile 'universal memory' devices in new clean room facility

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The University of Southampton’s Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens next week (9 September), will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile 'universal memory' devices for industry ...


SKoreans demonstrate spin-injected field effect transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

South Korean scientists said Friday they had demonstrated a spin-injected field effect transistor in a high-mobility InAs heterostructure.


An Unconventional Metal

An Unconventional Metal

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 20, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 2

The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric motors. In this week's issue of the journal Nature (August 21st) ...


Faster computers, electronic devices possible after scientists create large-area graphene on copper

Scientists create large-area graphene on copper: Faster computers, electronics possible

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, ...


Spintronic -- the new electronic?

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2

European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors.