The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has acquired the specialty coatings business of Henkel. The products are sold under the brand names MiraFoil and Miracure and are mainly supplied to the packaging industry in North America. The business ...
Tags: Altana, Specialty Coatings
German chemical company Altana has announced the acquisition of the specialty coatings business of Henkel for an undisclosed sum. The business generated sales of around $15m in 2012. According to Altana, the products are sold under ...
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed around 41 varieties of crops under its nuclear agriculture program. BARC has developed about 15 varieties of groundnut, mustard, soyabean, sunflower, green gram, pigeon pea, black ...
Tags: Crop, Agriculture, Food
ETH-Zurich has reported increased maximum oscillation frequency for its indium phosphide/gallium arsenide antimonide (InP/GaAsSb) double-heterostructure bipolar transistors (DHBTs) [Rickard L?vblom et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
PPG Industries' industrial coatings business has expanded its social media initiative so that it can share news and interact more effectively with customers via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Sharon Bird, PPG marketing communications ...
Tags: Coating, Construction, PPG
Researchers based in China and Sweden have proposed fast chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene as a route to more cost-effective transparent conducting layers (TCLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Xu Kun et ...
Evatec Ltd of Flums, Switzerland has introduced a new web site which the firm says makes it easier for customers to access information about its portfolio of thin-film platforms and processes. Split into three main sections - Products, ...
Tags: Evatec, Electron Beam, Evaporation Sputtering PECVD Etch
Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN) in France has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon (Si) high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) with a power gain cut-off frequency of 220GHz and a three-terminal ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si HEMT, EpiGaN MOCVD PECVD
Temescal of Livermore, CA, USA (a division of Ferrotec Corp) has introduced its UEFC-5700, a ultra-high-efficiency electron-beam metallization system for lift-off compound semiconductor applications. UEFC-5700 is the first Temescal system ...
Researchers in South Korea have developed a new gold-doping process for graphene transparent conducting layers (TCLs) that improves its adhesion and electrical contact with near-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (NUV-LEDs) [Chu-Young Cho et ...
Tags: NUV-LEDs GaN Graphene, Electrical, Electronics, LED
Welding is the process that is used to joint materials, mostly thermoplastics or metals, by coalescence. It is a potentially hazardous process and should be carried out with precautionary steps to avoid electric shock, inhalation of ...
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RaySearch Laboratories has launched a new version of its RayStation treatment planning system for clinical use in the European Union, the US, Japan and Australia. The new RayStation 3.5 version includes a wide range of new features and ...
Researchers based in South Korea and France have developed gallium nitride (GaN) fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) with the lowest claimed subthreshold swing for nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor FETs (MISFETs) ...
ZC&R Coatings for Optics (ZC&R), an Abrisa Technologies company is pleased to announce the publication of their new High Performance Thin Film Optical Coatings Technical Capabilities brochure. This highly informative brochure can be ...
Researchers in China have developed an atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique to create distributed Bragg reflectors (DBR) for increasing nitride semiconductor light-emitting diode (LED) output power by up to 43% [Hongjun Chen et al, Appl. ...
Tags: DBR ALD MOCVD LEDs GaN, Lighting, LED