Tokyo-based Solar Frontier says that its CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar panels have been installed by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K Line, one of Japan's largest shipping companies) on its newest ...
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Boston Beer Company has launched Samuel Adams nitro beers across the US, after three years of trials. The three new ales - Nitro White Ale, Nitro IPA, and Nitro Coffee Stout, are the result of Samuel Adams Nitro Project. 'Nitro' refers ...
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Yellow laser diodes with low thesholds have been produced by Jijun Feng (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China) and Ryoichi Akimoto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan) based on ...
Tags: Yellow lasers BeZnCdSe 560-590nm lasers, Ryoichi Akimoto, Electronics
Westport Innovations, engineering the world's most advanced natural gas engines and vehicles, announced today that, together with the Gas Technology Institute (GTI), it has been awarded US$900,000 towards a program to advance ...
Researchers in Germany are proposing scandium nitride (ScN) as a suitable buffer for gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon (Si) growth [L. Lupina et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p201907, 2015]. The attraction of ScN is a very small mismatch ...
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Plessey Semiconductors Ltd in the UK has been improving its indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-on-silicon light-emitting diode (LED) technology [Liyang Zhang et al, Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol3, p457, 2015]. A light output ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon LEDs, Plessey MOCVD
Researchers in the USA have reduced current leakage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon to the level achieved for devices produced on much more expensive silicon carbide [Bo Song et ...
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Linde Group’s UK and Ireland subsidiary BOC is partnering in The Advanced Cooking and Cooling Technology project (ACCT), which is a two year project that aims to develop a cooking and cooling system aimed at improving the quality and ...
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The 16.08-carat, VVS2 clarity diamond is the largest cushion-shaped fancy vivid pink ever to be offered at auction. It brought in $1.8 million per carat. Geneva--A new world auction record for a vivid pink diamond was set overseas on ...
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Jijun Feng and Ryoichi Akimoto based in China and Japan have developed low-threshold green and green-yellow laser diodes (LDs) based on a beryllium zinc cadmium selenide (BeZnCdSe) quantum well [Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p161101, 2015]. ...
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Researchers in the USA have been working on gallium nitride phosphide (GaNP) as an absorbing material for solar power [S. Sukrittanon et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p153901, 2015]. The aim of the team from University of California San ...
US-China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Cooperation Forum & Match-making Meeting, jointly hosted by China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products, the Department of Commerce of ...
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Global Clean Vehicle Summit 2015 was held recently in Changzhou. With the theme of clean technology, the summit has attracted nearly a hundred domestic and overseas enterprises. Suo Guotao, chief engineer of Advanced Technology R&D ...
Tags: natural gas engines, catalyst
The Almond Board of California (ABC) will join with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and other partners in carrying out a new USDA-funded pilot project designed to give both almond and corn growers greater access to greenhouse gas ...
Tags: almond, corn, Gas Markets
Irish brewer Guinness has created an Indian Pale Ale beer with nitrogenation effect, a balance of flavor and aroma, and a creamy taste with dense bubbles. Made in Dublin, the Guinness Nitro IPA is brewed with Irish barley malt, roasted ...
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