Industry News
Gallium nitride film method beats the heat
A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a method for growing crystalline gallium nitride films at lower temperatures than industry standards.
[ + ]Enhanced BiFET process for GaAs-based products
Skyworks Solutions, an american analog semiconductor producer, is leveraging a new bipolar field effect transistor (BiFET) process technology for its gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based products.
[ + ]Service agreement
AFC Group has become the first authorised service centre for Acterna OTDRs in Australia. Both service and calibration will be performed locally in Melbourne by specifically trained staff.
[ + ]Combination on electronic displays
Ntera and Seiko Epson have successfully produced working prototypes featuring the world’s highest resolution naturally reflective electronic displays using Ntera’s visualDNA brand electrochromic display technology. The prototypes feature 200 dpi and 400 dpi QVGA resolution and were produced using Epson’s solution processable inkjet methods.
[ + ]Tackling nanoelectronic roadblocks
University at Buffalo engineers are working to solve two significant roadblocks impeding the creation of smaller, faster and more powerful electronic devices.
[ + ]Finding a good catalyst for fuel cell anodes
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have discovered that ceria (or cerium dioxide) is a good catalyst for fuel cell anodes.
[ + ]AIIA and AEEMA proposed merger will not proceed
After a period of extensive investigation, the boards of both the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association (AEEMA) have now decided to work together on common interests in close collaboration, rather than to proceed with a formal merger.
[ + ]Spintronic circuits built in Britain
Researchers in Britain have produced digital spintronic circuits that use the direction of magnetism to represent ones and zeros.
[ + ]Increasing costs in PCB industry
In recent months costs of raw- and auxiliary materials as well as charges for energy have risen in the PCB-industry.
[ + ]Getting fired up over battery alternative
Just about everything that runs on batteries -- flashlights, mobile phones, electric cars, missile-guidance systems -- would be improved with a better energy supply. But traditional batteries haven't progressed far beyond the basic design developed by Alessandro Volta in the 19th century. Until now.
[ + ]New material means 'x-ray specs' no longer required
A new optical effect has been created in a London laboratory that means solid objects such as walls could one day be rendered transparent, scientists have reported in the journal Nature Materials.
[ + ]Anritsu takeover
Anritsu has bought NetTest. With headquarters in Copenhagen, NetTest has 480 employees and R&D locations in the US, France and Italy.
[ + ]Event identification software
It what it claims is an industry first, Agilent Technologies has introduced an event identification software that allows digital designers that use Infiniium oscilloscopes to identify signal integrity issues found in electronic designs.
[ + ]Battery extends implantable's life
With the help of new silicon-based compounds, scientists - and patients - are getting a significant new charge out of the tiny lithium batteries used in implantable devices to help treat nervous system and other disorders.
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