RKW plans to present its latest range of high-performance films and laminates for surgical and woundcare applications. The products from the Medicace and Medifol brands are offering proven barrier properties and comfort levels. Reliable ...
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After months of teasing, Sombra was announced as the 23rd Overwatch hero at Blizzcon 2016. I got an opportunity to try out Sombra on the Blizzcon show floor, getting an early look at the Mexican hacker hero. When Blizzard CEO Mike ...
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Microsoft October 2016 Event: Today’s Microsoft keynote is finally over and we’ve been inundated with lots of big software and hardware news. Here’s what you need to know. Microsoft Event Overview Microsoft has ...
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How often do we hear about how terrifying progress in the Artificial Intelligence community is becoming? Well this Halloween such comments come with some justification. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have ...
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Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has (14 October) published the results from its second Food in Scotland Consumer Tracking Survey, showing that while most people in Scotland are aware of healthy eating recommendations, the majority do not ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched the UltraCMOS PE42525 and PE426525, which are claimed to ...
BENTONVILLE, Ark., Sept. 8, 2016 – Building on the positive customer response to the Evenflo Advanced SensorSafe™ Embrace Infant Car Seat, Walmart and Evenflo today announced they have once again teamed up for a first-of-its ...
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EV Group of St Florian, Austria - a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for semiconductor, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), compound semiconductors, power devices and nanotechnology applications says that a HERCULES ...
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In 2016, UV LED technology has been rapidly expanding into various application markets including curing, sterilization and purification equipment. The total value of the UV LED market worldwide is estimated to grow from US$166 million in ...
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Researchers in China have developed indium gallium nitride (InGaN) photovoltaic devices that increase in efficiency with temperature up to 423K [Zhaoying Chen et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p062104, 2016]. "The positive efficiency ...
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Global supply chain risk Q2 2016. Global supply chain risk climbed in the second quarter of 2016, reaching the highest levels since records began in 1995, according to the CIPS Risk Index, powered by Dun & Bradstreet. The Index, ...
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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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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has used limited-area epitaxy (LAE) on semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) substrates to reduce misfit dislocation (MD) densities in multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting ...
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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Two themed tours will be part of Wasser Berlin International, which will take place from 28 – 31 March 2017. A water and wastewater treatment construction site day has been a regular part of the trade show since 2013. This year two ...