Notable & Newsworthy

November 2014

Raytheon UK’s semiconductor business unit in Glenrothes, Scotland

Raytheon UK to develop SiC MOSFETs for automotive apps

Raytheon UK’s semiconductor business unit in Glenrothes, Scotland, has been selected by a leading automotive manufacturer to develop a Silicon Carbide (SiC) based Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) for use in electric, hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. As experts in

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11/28/2014

2-DTech has developed a closer relationship with The University of Manchester.

2-DTech & U of Manchester form strategic alliance to further graphene tech

2-DTech has further underlined its proactive stance to seeking out new opportunities for graphene through development of a progressively closer relationship with The University of Manchester. To this end the two parties have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see them sharing their respective resources an

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11/28/2014

Innovators of renewable natural gas from organic waste honored in New York

Energy Vision, a national non-profit analyzing and promoting clean, renewable, petroleum-free transportation fuels, presented its 2014 Leadership Awards in the renewable energy field. The awardees are leading innovative projects to scale up renewable natural gas (RNG) vehicle fuel made from organic waste such as

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11/25/2014

IoT Design Competition Names Winning Engineers

The element14 Community, in partnership with Texas Instruments and Plotly, announced the winning design of their “Internet of the Backyard” design challenge – a competition aimed at bringing Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities to everyday backyard appliances and devices. Janis Alnis of Latvia was named th

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11/25/2014

These bacteria can generate electricity in the right environment

Clean energy 'bio batteries' come a step closer

A report published by the University of East Anglia shows how electrons hop across otherwise electrically insulating areas of bacterial proteins, and that the rate of electrical transfer is dependent on the orientation and proximity of electrically conductive ‘stepping stones’. It is hoped that this natu

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11/20/2014

Qualcomm and Ericsson complete first inter-company LTE category 9 carrier aggregation interoperability testing

Qualcomm Technologies and Ericsson successfully completed the world's first announced inter-company interoperability testing of LTE Category 9 connectivity with download speeds of up to 450 Mbps. Testing was conducted using QTI's next generation LTE Advanced modem and Ericsson LTE-A network infrastructure. The Cate

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11/19/2014

Record-breaking efficacy of >200 lm/W achieved with a green full conversion phosphor solution

Osram LEDs achieve record-breaking efficacies in green spectral range

The “Hi-Q-LED” project funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has made pioneering advances with green LEDs, greatly diminishing what is known as the “green gap” phenomenon – the significant drop in efficacy in the green spectral range. The result is a green-emitting LE

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11/06/2014

A new coating material developed by UCSD researchers could help make concentrated solar power (CSP) plants more efficient

Nanoparticle-based material turns up the heat on concentrated solar power

The key factor when it comes to solar power plant efficiency – be they of the photovoltaic or concentrated solar power (CSP) variety – is the amount of light that can be captured by the light-absorbing material and converted into electricity or heat. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (U

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11/05/2014

Siemens donates all-electric van to Forsyth County’s Lambert High School

Siemens continued to bolster its relationship with Forsyth County Schools by donating an all-electric van to Lambert High School, which will enable students active in the robotics, engineering, and science departments to travel with oversized equipment and supplies to competitions and conferences in a safe, gr

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11/03/2014

The 15 boxes in this image show the simulated intensity of spin excitations in 15 iron-based materials, including iron compounds that are high-temperature superconductors (images d–h). The x axis shows the momentum of the spin excitation in selected locations of 3D space, and the y axis shows the energy measured in electron volts (eV). The color code indicates the intensity of spin excitations with a given energy and momentum

Computational model predicts superconductivity

Researchers studying iron-based superconductors are combining novel electronic structure algorithms with the high-performance computing power of the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE)’s Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to predict spin dynamics, or the ways electrons orient and correlate th

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11/03/2014