Researchers in Taiwan have produced indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) with low interface trap densities directly on silicon [Yueh-Chin Lin etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p041202, 2014]. InGaAs ...
US investment bank Goldman Sachs said Wednesday it has upgraded its three-month and six-month nickel price forecasts on the back of the Indonesian ban on nickel ore exports. The bank notes that following a fragmented Indonesian election ...
Tags: Goldman Sachs, Nickel
The US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced its final affirmative decision regarding the antidumping duty (AD) investigation of imports of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat rolled steel products from Japan. Accordingly, the ...
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in February this year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South Africa decreased by 7.3 percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed conventional aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) with record-breaking figures-of-merit (FOMs) for frequency and breakdown performance [Kumud ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
UVOTECH Systems Inc of Concord, CA, USA, a manufacturer and distributor of surface treatment equipment, has launched the Model HELIOS-500 UV-ozone cleaning system, the first product in the firm's HELIOS series of UV-ozone cleaners. ...
BASF, the world's leading chemical company, and TODA KOGYO CORP., one of the industry leaders in the development and manufacture of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, have announced that they will enter exclusive negotiations to ...
Tags: Chemicals, Construction, Decoration
Australia's nickel mine production is set to fall 11% year on year to 215,000 mt in the current 2013-14 fiscal year and refined nickel production to rise 2.2% to 138,000 mt, the country's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics forecast in ...
Tags: Nickel Output, nickel mine, nickel exports
Sun Yat-sen University in China has improved the wall-plug efficiency of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on silicon by incorporating a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) [Yibin Yang et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Tags: InGaN LEDs, Silicon, semiconductor
According to a report released by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in February of the current year the import price of iron ore in Germany increased by 7.9 percent year on year and decreased by 1.5 percent month on month. ...
Tags: Iron Ore, steel, ferroalloys
Researchers in France have reported on solar cell devices based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [Sirona Valdueza-Felip et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p032301, 2014]. Conversion efficiencies of up to 2% ...
Tags: Solar Cells, InGaN
The Philippines' Nickel Asia said Monday it shipped out a record high 14 million wet mt of nickel ore in 2013, up 19% from 2012. Of the total volume, 3.59 million wmt was saprolite ore, down 15.3% year on year, while 10.41 million wmt was ...
Tags: Nickel Ore, Nickel, nickel price
Martini Tech Inc of Tokyo, Japan has started to offer a new gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) service on sapphire substrates for LED applications. Founded in 2013, Martini Tech offers microfabrication ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is developing techniques to monolithically integrate high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on aluminium indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) ...
Tags: Nitride Semiconductor, LEDs, LED regions
Before the microwave gained fame as a kitchen wonder, there was the, gasp, refrigerator, a kitchen wonder that could freeze meat and keep ice cream from melting on top, while preserving the life of leftovers and milk, juice and eggs below. ...
Tags: microwave, fridge, Consumer Electronics