Achievement of World’s Highest Turbine Inlet Temperature by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has announced the successful achievement of world’s highest turbine inlet temperature of 1,600 degrees Celsius using company’s newly developed J-Series gas turbine. The new gas turbine is able to withstand a temperature of 100 degrees 100 degrees more than it’s G-Series predecessor. The new gas turbine has achieved a rated power output of about 320 megawatts and 460 megawatts in gas turbine combined-cycle (GTCC) power generation applications, in presence of heat recovery steam generation and steam turbines. Read more
Achievement of High Capacity of 109 Terabit Per Second Optical Fiber Transmission by Japanese Researchers
Group of researchers at National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT) have succeeded in transmission of 109 Terabit per second (Tbits/s) optical signal using a new class of optical fiber. The experiment was done in collaboration with OPTOQUEST and Sumitomo Electric Industries. The result is the world record, exceeding the previously set record at 69.1 Tbit/s. Read more
Achievement of 14.8% Photoelectric Conversion Efficiency in Thin Film Silicon PV Cells by Mitsubishi Electric
Mitsubishi Electric made another stride in photoelectric conversion efficiency rate by achieving 14.8% conversion efficiency in a 5mm x 5mm thin film silicon photovoltaic cell. Mitsubishi Electric has achieved this conversion efficiency through use of triple-junction configuration. Currently Multi-junction layers in PV cells offer an efficient method in raising conversion efficiency in thin film silicon PV cells since each layer absorbs different wavelengths of sunlight. However, it is extremely difficult to adjust the characteristics of each layer in multi-junction structure, and for this reason most thin film silicon PV cells are only single or double layered. Read more
Achievement of World’s Highest Areal Density on Linear Magnetic Tap
An increase in worldwide data storage volume, forcing the manufacturers in producing larger capacity data storage media. But in order to increase the storage volume of magnetic tape storage media, it is necessary to micrify the particle size and increase the recording density. However, this procedure is extremely cumbersome using metal particle as one of the most popular material among the magnetic tape media market, all due to keeping the high coercivity for high density recording. Based on this challenge, Fujifilm has developed BaFe (Barium Ferrite) particles in achieving the world’s highest areal density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch on linear magnetic tape ,paving the way in manufacturing a 35 terabytes of data capacity per cartridge , 44 times the data capacity of today’s industry magnetic tape product. Read more
