Sales in Taiwan jumped 90.8 percent in June from the previous month, while sales in China rose 85.2 percent. Among other regions, sales rose 65.6 percent in Europe, 41.5 percent in North America, 42.2 percent in Japan and 34.6 percent in South Korea.

(August 13, 2004) Berkeley, Calif.&#8212 Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have made a significant advance in the development of gallium nitride. They have been able control the direction in which a gallium nitride nanowire grows. Growth direction is critical to determining the wire’s electrical and thermal conductivity and other important properties.