Using plasma, scientists built gallium nitride semiconductors at a lower cost and with higher quality, which allows fast and more efficient device charging. Gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors can ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has taken an equity position in Novel Crystal Technology, Inc., a Japanese company that develops and sells ...

Two NASA teams are examining the use of gallium nitride, a crystal-type semiconductor compound first discovered in the 1980s, and currently used in consumer electronics such as laser diodes in DVD ...

This past December, the U.K. start-up Space Forge turned on an orbital furnace aboard its ForgeStar-1 satellite, producing a stream of super-hot plasma that could someday enable production of ...

Silicon chips have had a decades-long run as the foundation for modern electronics. But a new kind of chip, based on the compound material gallium nitride (GaN), promises to unseat silicon because it ...

Study: Observing growth of metallic crystals inside liquid metal solvents. Gallium in a petri dish. Image Credit: Philip Ritchie/The University of Sydney Researchers at the University of Sydney have ...

While most people, when asked about energy innovation, think about some of the "large" technologies, such as wind turbines, long transmission lines, or massive power plants, some of the most important ...

Charles R. Goulding and Nimra Shakoor connect federal investment, breakthrough additive manufacturing, and valuable R&D tax ...