Tag Archives: Japan

Four UK technology companies – including a space situational awareness specialist – have been selected to receive support from the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, to help accelerate plans for expansion in Japan. Aimed at UK technology startups headquartered in the UK, the programme is a government-backed initiative run by Intralink, a business development consultancy. The latest four companies to be ...

On Saturday TSMC opened its first Japanese fab in Kumamoto, on the island of Kyushu. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attended via video link and his government announced it would give TSMC $4.85 billion in subsidies to build a second fab in Kumamoto bringing total subsidies for the two fabs to $8 billion. Kishida said that the importance of the ...

Researchers at Chiba University in Japan have uncovered a rule of organic solar cell materials that could guide their development, or at least stop people hunting for the impossible. It is that the exciton binding energy in a material is a quarter of its transport bandgap, regardless of the material. “A previously unpredicted nature of exciton binding energies in organic ...

Axelspace Holdings, an Earth Observation and microsatellite specialist, has completed a ¥6.24 billion Series D funding round, equivalent to $44.0 million. Bringing the cumulative amount of equity financing to approximately ¥14.3 billion, the latest investments came from SMBC-GB Growth I Investment Limited Partnership, 31VENTURES, KURONEKO Innovation Fund and other venture capital and corporate investors. Axelspace says the funding will be ...

Hamamatsu Photonics has introduced a UV model of its ‘micro’ spectrometer series. C16767MA is sensitive across 190 to 440nm with a typical resolution of 5.5nm (FWHM, so ±2.25nm to 50%). Update: scroll down for how it works, probably Vital statistics are 20.1 x 12.5 x 10.1mm and 5g. “For example, C16767MA can be mounted in water quality monitors, analysing the ...

New ion conductivity science has been revealed during research into a better electrolyte for solid-oxide and proton ceramic fuel cells, according to Tokyo Institute of Technology (TItech). The material is actually a ‘dual-ion conductor’, which allows both protons and oxide ions to defuse, and can “realise high total conductivity at lower temperatures and improve the performance of electro-chemical devices”, according ...

Researchers at Ritsumeikan University in Japan have made a simple sensor that can indicate when biodegradable waste from plant or animal sources is released into freshwater ecosystems. As well as the sensed contaminant, the organic mater is also the power source of this detector, which is essentially a novel floating fuel cell, with an LED on top. “The microbial fuel ...

Tokyo Institute of Technology has demonstrated a blue OLED with a forward voltage of 1.97V at 100cd/m2, and still emitting at lower voltages such as 1.5V (right). “Conventional blue OLEDs typically require around 4V for a luminance of 100cd/m2, this is higher than the industrial target of 3.7 V – the voltage of lithium-ion batteries,” according to the Institute. Its ...

Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Tokyo University of Science have created a solid-state electric double layer neuromorphic transistor, claiming it to be the fastest yet, and proving its computational ability by training it to convert waveforms. “The team measured the speed at which the transistor operates by applying pulsed voltage to it, and found that it ...

Chiba University has found a way to cut blocks of diamond into thin wafers along a difficult but desirable crystal plane using lasers. The ‘100’ plain leaves a surface that is relatively easy to planarise and etch for semiconductor use, according to the Chiba researchers, but diamond wants to crack along its 111 plane, so any crack-based separation starting in ...