Wolfspeed of Research Triangle Park, NC, USA — a Cree Company that makes silicon carbide (SiC) power products including MOSFETs, Schottky diodes, and modules — has introduced what it claims is the first 1000V MOSFET, which ...
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The ATA has released its contract checklist, which aims to help trucking businesses ensure their contracts are fair and legal. The checklist responds to the lengthening payment terms faced by trucking businesses, as well as concerns that ...
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UK-based Oxford Instruments, which provides process technology equipment for the manufacturing of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HBLEDs), says that its systems are being used to facilitate the introduction of ultraviolet (UV) LEDs ...
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University of Montpellier in France claims the first continuous-wave (cw) operation at room temperature of a 15μm indium arsenide (InAs) quantum cascade laser (QCL) [Alexei N. Baranov et al, Optics Express, vol. 24, p18799, 2016]. "To ...
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Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
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Friedrichshafen. ZF Friedrichshafen AG has continued its good business development in the first half of 2016. In the first six months of 2016, sales increased to €17.8 billion and the adjusted operating profit (EBIT) rose to €1.1 ...
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The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the first GRAS classification for any rice protein to Axiom Foods for their clinically-studied Oryzatein organic brown rice protein ingredient. Axiom's Vegotein pea protein was also awarded a ...
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The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
The Nutrition Facts label is found on packaged foods and beverages, and can serve as your daily guide for comparing foods and making healthy choices. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is making it even easier to explore and ...
AppDynamics Inc of San Francisco, CA, USA says that Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications) has chosen its ...
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Xidian University in China has used pulsed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to increase indium gallium nitride (InGaN) room-temperature channel mobility to 1681cm2/V-s, which is claimed to be a record [Yachao Zhang et al, ...
Ten cartoonists from seven countries were invited to make illustrations of Beijing for the event "World's Artists Illustrate Beijing," launched on April 28 and lasting till May 3. Their production process includes trips to the Great Wall, ...
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UPM Raflatac has cooperated with Italian wine producer Cielo e Terra on a life-cycle assessment (LCA) to study the environmental impacts of wine bottles. The comprehensive study took into account the full life cycle of the wine bottle and ...
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In any given four-week period across 2015 Australian adults drank just over 426 million glasses of alcohol between them says a new study from Roy Morgan Research. This translates to an average of 23 glasses per person every four weeks. ...
Haruhiko Okumura, Taksahi Sasaki and Aira Hotta The windshield-refracted augmented reality projector is used to achieve hyperreality performance with free depth perception, high visibility, and low eye fatigue. In a head-up display ...