PPG Industries' coil and building products group has supplied DURANAR XL and DURACRON coatings to the recently opened Port of Miami Tunnel, which is made up of two 4,200-foot-long highway tunnels that travel under Biscayne Bay, connecting ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Metal Coatings, Coatings
American automotive company Ford Motor is set to launch the upgraded version of its Ford Explorer vehicle, the new 2015 Ford Explorer XLT, in late June 2014. The new utility vehicle will come with a sport-inspired appearance package ...
Tags: Ford, Revamped Explorer
Airey houses in West Norfolk are being restructured and clad with External Wall Insulation (EWI) by Saint-Gobain Weber to improve their thermal performance and aesthetics.? The properties are owned by Freebridge Community Housing who own ...
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University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
Tags: UV Light Emission, LEDs
The Audi Allroad Shooting Brake concept provides pointers to styling cues of future models as well as the interior design of the third-generation TT out this year. Audi’s crossover makes its public debut at this week’s 2014 ...
Tags: Audi Concept, TT, A4, new generation
Camouflaged Ford Focus prototypes have been spotted in various guises while undergoing both hot- and cold-weather testing, confirming development of the small car’s mid-life upgrade is well under way. Set to feature a new ...
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Researchers in China have developed a selective area epitaxy (SAE) approach to create nanopyramids of nitride semiconductor 'white' light-emitting diodes (LEDs) without using phosphors [Kui Wu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol103, p241107, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
Tropical hardwoods have long been prized for their rich dark tones and incredible durability. Woods like teak seem to last forever, even in harsh conditions, and they acquire a beautiful patina over time that testifies to years of graceful ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Woods, hardwoods
Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan have used evanescent wave coupling to enhance the light output power of red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by a factor of 3.8 [Guo-Dong Hao ...
Tags: Red LEDs AlGaInP, LED, Electrical, Electronics
The Lamborghini Cabrera has been spied testing alongside its 10-year-old predecessor, amid suggestions the new supercar will be unveiled at March’s Geneva motor show wearing the name ‘Huracan’. Snapped free of heavy ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers have been studying the effect of using undoped vertical spacers in the source and drain contacts to reduce off-state leakage in indium arsenide (InAs)-channel ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Mosfets
Researchers at Meijo University and Nagoya University, Japan, have produced low-resistance n-type aluminium gallium nitride (n-AlGaN) [Toru Sugiyama et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p121002, 2013]. Using the n-AlGaN as part of an ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
Gx Glass is launching MagnX, a new range of magnetic back-painted toughened glass and dry wipe memo boards. It allows documents to be 'pinned' to the glass surface using magnets which adhere to metal-backed glass and the glass surface is ...
Tags: Gx Glass, Glass, New Glass Product
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been using limited area epitaxy (LAE) to improve the performance of lasers diodes (LDs) grown on free-standing semipolar (20-21) gallium nitride (GaN) substrates [Matthew T. Hardy et al, J. ...
After 10 years and 14,022 cars, the last Lamborghini Gallardo has rolled off the production line. Introduced in 2003 as part of Lamborghini's 40th anniversary celebrations, the Lamborghini Gallardo heralded a major change for ...
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