EPA issued a notice of non-compliance to the Drinking Water Program in 2013.

Super-fast laser sensing has allowed UK researchers to study semiconductors without a magnetics lab. The work will feed into University of Cambridge research on AlGaN/GaN HEMTs (high electron mobility transistors). 30T magnetic coil at the heart of the system, developed by Professor Hiroyuki Nojiri at Tohoku University (see below) The test in question is cyclotron …

UK universities replace magnetics lab with bench-top test

Said the University of Bristol in a statement: “Although it’s known that flowers communicate with pollinators by sending out electric signals, just how bees detects these fields has been a mystery – until now.” What? Flowers have electric fields? Apparently so. And bees detect them using hairs that deflect according to charge – said Bristol, …

Bees have an electrostatic sense

Sony’s TR-55 transistor radio had a major effect in encouraging the Japanese electronics industry to focus on consumer goods, but it also had a transformative effect on the career of one of Japan’s most distinguished semiconductor men. In 1955, the same year as the launch of the TR-55, Tsugio Makimoto was in his first year …

The Transformative Effects Of The Transistor Radio

Australian researchers have increased photon absorption in a semiconductor to almost 99%, according to the University of Sydney. The absorber is a sub-wavelength thin-film semiconductor, and no complex nano-structures, meta-materials, exotic materials or difficult-to-create metal-non-metal combinations have been used. When light falls on a thin film etched with narrow grooves, light is directed sideways and …

Surface absorbs 98% of photons

A source of loss in Perovskite solar cells could disappear following the decoding of a mechanism that heals defects in the crystal lattice. Organic-inorganic metal halide perovskite solar materials are rapidly catching silicon in efficiency, and are showing promise as a mass produceable large scale technology. However, a lot of issues remain to be solved, …

Perovskite solar cells yield another secret

The SEMI book-to-bill for April was 1:10, down from March’s 1:15. April orders were $1.59 billion – 15.6% higher than March’s $1.38 billion, and 1.3% higher than April’s $1.57 billion. April billings were $1.46 billion – 21.5% higher than March’s $1.20 billion, and is 4% lower than April’s $1.52 billion. “Bookings reached their highest levels …

SEMI book-to-bill continues positive

James Webb Space Telescope assembly passed a critical step as NASA hoisted in the instrument package – the cameras and spectrographs that will record light from the huge golden mirror. So critical was this part of construction – the load is heavy, delicate, and had to be lowered into a confined box – that prior to …

NASA builds James Webb space telescope

The London-based, Chinese owned luminaire provider steps up smart-lighting-enabled location-based services with sensors from Australian startup Organic Response.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Enhanced Monitoring, which gives you near-real time access to a set of 56 system metrics and per process metrics for your instance.