Development of Multilayer Ceramic Coils with World’s Highest Q Factor in 0402 Size by TDK-EPC
TDK-EPC, made an announcement of development of the MLG0402Q series, a multilayer ceramic coils in 0402 size featuring a world’s highest Q factor of 15.8 at 1 GHz and 10 nH. The newly developed coils are chip components and their high Q factor has been achieved through use of a new technology that increases the precision of position control during the time of forming the layers, resulting in optimization of coil design. Read more
Development of Solar Cell with World’s Highest Conversion Efficiency by SHARP
Achieving the highest possible solar energy conversion efficiency is at the heart of any solar cell research and development effort, and sharp is no stranger at this. Sharp started the development of its first solar cell back in 1967 by developing a solar cell for space application using single-crystal silicon. Much later on the company began its R&D on triple-junction compound solar cell to further improve efficiency, reduce weight, and increase durability of solar cells which was targeted for space applications. Through this effort in 2003 Sharp achieved 31.5% conversion efficiency. By today’s announcement using the same solar cell structure Sharp at least at the experimental level has achieved a 35.8% conversion efficiency rate. Read more
NEC’s Supercomputer to achieve world’s highest computing efficiency
In a race to achieve the highest level of performance and computing efficiency in the world of Supercomputing, NEC moved one step closer by announcing that the company’s “Earth Simulator System” which NEC deployed for the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology back in March 1st, 2009 has achieved sustained performance of 122.4 TFLOPS which is short for TERAFLOPS and computing efficiency of 93.38% on the LINPACK benchmark. The TERAFLOP is a floating-point calculation speed with one TERAFLOP measuring to 1 trillion occurrences every second and as for The LINPACK Benchmark, it is a program that measures computer performance. The “TOP500 Supercomputing Sites,” a comparison program of supercomputers’ performance, has been adopted as a standard benchmark. This achievement places NEC as the number 1 in Japan and number 16th in the world in terms of sustain performance plus the company achieved the number one spot in the world in terms of computing efficiency according to the “TOP500 Supercomputing Sites,” published in November 2008. Read more
Development of Solar Cells with World’s highest Energy Conversion efficiency by SANYO
Looks like Sanyo is all alone in this field by breaking its own record in developing the world’s highest energy conversion efficiency of 23% for crystalline silicon type solar cells for a practical size of 100 cm2 or more. The solar cell is of HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin layer) type composed of thin crystalline silicon wafer sandwiched by ultra-thin amorphous silicon layer. HIT structure offers a reduction of recombination loss of the electrical element (charged carrier) by surrounding the energy generating layer of single thin crystalline silicon (c-Si) with high quality ultra thin amorphous silicon (a-Si) layers. Read more
Development of Red LED with world’s highest level output targeted for plant growth
Development of facilities for growing vegetables in an environment with controlled lighting, temperature, humidity, CO2 concentration and nourishment is gaining in popularity as they attracting attention ensure stabilized production regardless of season or place and achieving multiple cropping. Furthermore vegetable growth in such condition does not require any fungicides or insecticides because of the controlled environment. Nearly 30 facilities of this kind are already in operation in Japan. Read more
