Boron nitride is a semiconductor that could be used to make electrical equipment able to convert power more efficiently than silicon wafer technologies, up to three to 4% more efficiently than what is possible today. To achieve this higher energy efficiency, a...
By Rob Coppinger | 15-10-2018
A heat sink more than three times better than copper could be commercially available in a couple of years after engineers found a way to make the semiconductor boron-arsenide virtually defect free. Researchers are speaking to potential commercial partners for...
By Rob Coppinger | 28-09-2018
According to many of the automotive and battery industry cognoscenti, all of us will be driving around in electric vehicles by the year 2030. Whether you believe that and whether you think there will be sufficient public charging points and electricity on nati...
By Paul Whytock | 23-04-2018
Ask any manufacturer in the semiconductor business which market sector is their rock-solid banker, the one that not only ticks over year after year but steadily grows, and most will say automotive. And this has been the case since the upsurge of electronics in...
By Paul Whytock | 26-10-2017