Researchers led by a team at UNSW Australia have used the Australian Synchrotron to turn the discovery of an ultra-low density and corrosion-resistant magnesium alloy into the first step toward mass-producing ‘stainless ...
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Researchers in the USA have reduced current leakage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon to the level achieved for devices produced on much more expensive silicon carbide [Bo Song et ...
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At the 2015 Elektra Awards ceremony at The Lancaster Hotel in London on 24 November, Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd of Haverhill, Suffolk UK, a producer of thermal management technology, has won the LED Lighting Product of the Year award (beating ...
Sandia National Laboratories in the USA has reported aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) laser structures emitting ~350nm ultraviolet radiation from optical and electrical pumping [Mary H. Crawford et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol8, p112702, ...
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Researchers at Nanchang University in China have been studying the effect of V-pits in indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on electroluminescence [Xiaoming Wu, Junlin Liu, and Fengyi Jiang, J. Appl. Phys., vol118, ...
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Ferroelectric materials have applications in next-generation electronics devices from optoelectronic modulators and random access memory to piezoelectric transducers and tunnel junctions. Now researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...
Japan's Panasonic Corp has reported the suppression of current collapse up to 800V for a normally-off gallium nitride (GaN) transistor by embedding a hybrid drain in a gate-injection transistor (HD-GIT) structure [Kenichiro Tanaka et al, ...
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Metal detection and X-ray inspection are an excellent first line of defence to check products for foreign contaminants before they leave your processing plant. In food and beverage applications, both systems must be extremely sensitive, ...
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Jijun Feng and Ryoichi Akimoto based in China and Japan have developed low-threshold green and green-yellow laser diodes (LDs) based on a beryllium zinc cadmium selenide (BeZnCdSe) quantum well [Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p161101, 2015]. ...
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The European Commission is seeking comments on whether the shareholding of Netherlands-based commodities trading group Trafigura in Belgium-based zinc and lead producer Nyrstar amounts to the company taking "de facto sole control" of ...
Constellium has introduced a new aluminium solution - Aeral - which will be used in the production of aerosol containers. The Aeral developed from a specific alloy employs the Drawn and Ironed (D&I) technology, which is currently used in ...
Mercedes-AMG is extending its offering of AMG sports models. The GLE 450 AMG 4MATIC is already the third vehicle in this new line. The power SUV facilitates a further, attractive way of entering the AMG performance world. The hallmark ...
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When people think about wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductor materials for power electronics applications, they usually think of gallium nitride (GaN) or silicon carbide (SiC) – which is not surprising, since SiC and GaN are currently the ...
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A 10-year contract for a newly built wall-to-wall metal packaging operation in South Korea has been signed. International packaging company Ardagh Group and South Korean food processor Sajo are in partnership on the plant contrac, which ...
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Avery Dennison has introduced two bio-based polyethylene (PE) films for label applications at LabelExpo Europe this year. The launch is in line with Avery Dennison's efforts to achieve sustainability goals by 2025. The new labels films ...
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