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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) today introduced the industry's first 100V half-bridge gate driver optimized for use with enhancement-mode Gallium-Nitride (GaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) in high-voltage power converters. National's new LM5113 is a highly-integrated, high-side and low-side GaN FET driver that reduces component count by 75 percent and shrinks printed circuit board (PCB) area by up to 85 percent compared...

BALTIMORE, Md., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- 2011 INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM, BALTIMORE, Booth #2306 - This week at the 2011 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC*) and its parent company, Toshiba Corp., announced the TGI1314-25L, a gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT), the latest addition to its power amplifier product family. Toshiba is located in booth #2306 at 2011 IMS which is...

IRVINE, Calif., June 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink") (OTC Markets: INKN) and BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc. (OTCBB: VTDI) announced today the execution of the share exchange whereby 100% of the equity interests of BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc. (the Nevada company) were sold to BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc. (the publicly traded Delaware company). Additionally, a cash payment is due to be made to Shrink and BlackBox is to receive approximately 14,000,000 shares...

Victims' Families Discuss Need for Increased Road Safety WASHINGTON, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Coalition for Safer Roads (NCSR) has released a powerful new public service announcement demonstrating the heartbreaking impact of red-light running on families. Powerful testimonials from three women -- a wife, a mother, a grandmother -- reveal their personal loss and highlight how red-light safety cameras help protect families and communities by changing dangerous...

Researchers Discover New Method for Boosting the Light Output of Green LEDs "” A Critical Step Toward the Development of LED Televisions and Displays Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for manufacturing green-colored LEDs with greatly enhanced light output.The research team, led by Christian Wetzel, professor of physics and the Wellfleet Constellation Professor of Future Chips at Rensselaer, etched a nanoscale pattern at the interface between the...

UB researcher explains: 'It's as though I can hold the light in my hand.'An electrical engineer at the University at Buffalo, who previously demonstrated experimentally the "rainbow trapping effect" -- a phenomenon that could boost optical data storage and communications -- is now working to capture all the colors of the rainbow.In a paper published March 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Qiaoqiang Gan (pronounced "Chow-Chung" and...

'Quantum coaxial cable' nanostructure efficiently harvests visible wavelength light using stable, high bandgap semiconductorsA report, published in the March 14 edition of the Journal of Materials Chemistry, announced the successful fabrication and testing of a new type solar cell using an inorganic core/shell nanowire structure.Arrays of core/shell nanowires (described has "quantum coaxial cables") had previously been theorized as a potential structure that, while composed of...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y., April 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc. ("BlackBox"), formerly Visitrade, Inc. (OTCBB: VTDI), a semiconductor technology development and application company, announced today that it has executed a binding letter of intent (the "Binding LOI") to purchase the BlackBox Semiconductor subsidiary of Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink") in order to commercialize its "electronic glue" semiconductor chemistry. Purchase terms of the Binding LOI in include:...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Joe DeNicholas, Director of the Lighting Business Unit for National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM), will speak at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, February 24, 2011, at the J.P. Morgan LED General Lighting Symposium at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, Calif. An audio webcast will be made available at: http://www.national.com/analog/invest About National Semiconductor National Semiconductor is a leader in power management technology. Known...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface, an achievement that could lead to a new class of faster, more efficient microprocessors, as well as to powerful biochemical sensors that use optoelectronic chips.They describe their work in a paper published Feb. 6 in an advanced online issue of the journal Nature Photonics."Our results impact a broad spectrum of scientific fields, including materials science,...