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IQE markets accelerate
IQE, the Cardiff headquartered, global supplier of wafer products and services to the semiconductor industry reports its interim results for the half year (1H) ended June 2010 showing a strong performance in all main markets with wireless up 52%, optoelectronics up 55% and electronics up 102%.
Electronics component snafu
Component shortages lead to a traffic pileup in the global electronics supply chain, with major contract manufacturers facing a challenging supply imbalance characterised by tight part and finished products inventories and a glut of raw materials, according to the market research firm iSuppli Corp.
Simulation's gold standard for microelectronics
Gold Standard Simulations (GSS) the long promised spin-out company that will enable microchip manufacturers to develop the next generation of chip circuits has now been launched by the University of Glasgow.
Germanium underground detector growth
The University of South Dakota Department of Physics was awarded a $3 million grant to pursue high purity germanium crystal growth and develop detectors underground used in experiments seeking a deeper understanding of energy and matter.
Morphing UAV rescue plane
A shape shifting robot plane (ASARP), small and cheap-to-build unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is intended to cut the cost of maritime search-and-rescue missions and reduce risks to material and human lives has been successfully developed in a combined Cyprus-Israel developed project.
Solar cells: improving InGaN and glass
Hot on the heels of better gallium and nanowire solar cells in Germany, Texas Tech University scientists have developed an indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cell with characteristics ‘significantly higher’ than previously reported values for devices with similar indium content in the QWs. But in Spain,research has focused on photoactive compounds to improve the solar cell glass.
Relaxing magnetic fields
Researchers at the University of Dundee have made a breakthrough in the study of magnetic fields when a team from the magnetohydrodynamics research group in the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics used computer simulations of evolving plasmas in the Sun’s atmosphere.
Fully reversible smart materials
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany have devised a tool which allows fully reversible binding of metal oxides to inorganic chalcogenide nanotubes.
Biodiesel from micro-algae
Within 10 to 15 years, it will be technically possible to produce sustainable and economically viable biodiesel from micro-algae on a large scale. Technological innovations during this period should extend the scale of production by a factor of three, while at the same time reducing production costs by 90%.
Global nuclear renaissance 2030
It's tilting at entrenched anti-nuclear sentiments - and one look at Google graphics illustrating the word nuclear says it all. But, UK scientists have researched and outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy that should not be dismissed out of hand. This anticipates nuclear reactors with replaceable parts, portable mini-reactors, even ship-borne off-shore reactors supplying countries with CO2 free energy without the infrastructure costs.
Glass in a French spotlight
As Professor Tanguy Rouxel of Rennes University wins this year's Otto Schott Research Award for research achievements in the area of mechanical properties of glasses and glassy materials Yole Développement's latest research study into 3D silicon and glass interposers, lists all of the 3D silicon/glass interposer opportunities by application.
Luxury Lewis tweed exports
Breanish Tweed - a family based business at Port of Ness on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides hand weaves a lightweight tweed using 100% natural yarn, all dyed and spun in Scotland. The cloth is subsequently supplied to the best bespoke tailors and fashion houses.
IQE adds patents to its GaN portfolio
NanoGaN Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of IQE, has been granted two separate patents in Japan and the UK in relation to its nanocolumn technology for the production of advanced blue and green lasers and LEDs.
Bone regeneration with growth agent
Bone regeneration proof of concept research to test the hypothesis that the articular surface of the synovial joint can regenerate with a biological cue spatially embedded in an anatomically correct bio-scaffold is proved, with further investigation warranted into whether cell homing acts as an adjunctive or alternative approach of cell deliver for regeneration of tissues with different organisational complexity.
DNA translocation: graphene and Ti02
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are part of the graphene DNA wave under development for a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules, .research published in the current issue of Nano Letters
Software monitors ship lubrication
Researchers at the University of Sunderland Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP) have developed a software programme for a sensor based processing unit - the Progressive Oil Sensor System for Extended IDentification ONline ( Posseidon) system - that can continuously monitor a ship's lubrication system, allowing crews to predict any deterioration or contamination in the oil, anticipating tribology problems and taking action before damage or failure.
Intel's silicon optical data link
Intel's demonstrates its concept vehicle, a 50Gbps silicon photonics link breakthrough which is built on early achievements including the first hybrid silicon laser co-developed at University of California at Santa Barbara in 2006 and high-speed optical modulators and photodetectors announced in 2007
Dundee and deep sea pipeline safety
Doors, horses & bolted initially spring to mind in the news that a team from the University of Dundee have been awarded two grants totalling almost £300,000 to improve the safety and reliability of ultra-deep water oil and gas extraction, but the work has been long anticipated and the development will both optimise reliability under deep sea high pressure of tubular connections and develop future pipeline coatings.
Silica + poplar protein molecules = computer memory
Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded in showing how it is possible to greatly expand the memory capacity of future computers through the use of memory units based on silica nanoparticles combined with protein molecules obtained from the poplar tree.
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