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

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

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

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

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.

Cut pipe quickly and with minimal digging using Reed Low Clearance Rotary Cutters.

Phoenix Contact’s mGuard Secure Cloud (mSC) is a free web-based service that allows FL mGuard users to securely communicate with and support industrial equipment over the Internet.

Aclara lets you choose how to install communications modules in meter pits.

Myron L® Company announces the release of a new product line, the UltraPen™ PTBTx™, Bluetooth® enabled Pocket Testers for use with Apple iOS 6 and iOS 7 mobile devices.