Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd of Haverhill, Suffolk, UK, producer of nanoceramic thermal management technology, has appointed solid-state lighting expert Jed Dorsheimer to its board of directors. The firm says that Dorsheimer's role as managing ...
Following greatly increased use in the optical communications industry over the past 15 years, the global market for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) will grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.9% from ...
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McDavid and Shock Doctor, two leading athletic protection providers, signed their first dual-brand athlete ambassador, 2015 NBA Champion Harrison Barnes. In his new role as global athlete ambassador, Barnes will exclusively wear ...
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Prestone Products' new advanced, patent-pending Triple Seal Protection Stop Leak family of products help eliminate expensive consumer auto repairs to radiators, head gaskets and engine blocks. While each product is a slightly different ...
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Xaar will launch a new Thin Film silicon MEMS technology platform at drupa 2016. Xaar's printheads are at the heart of a vast number of industrial inkjet print systems around the world delivering both production efficiencies and increased ...
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Now that LEGO has unveiled a wheelchair using-figure and a stay-at-home dad in its latest LEGO City set, it seems the toy giant is embracing a true representation of society with its products. Jade Burke speaks to manufacturers and ...
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XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and 'CIGSolar' manufacturing processes, has concluded the construction of another large ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has announced its SiGe Terabit ...
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Analog and mixed-signal semiconductor manufacturer Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has unveiled SkyLiTE 2.0, its next-generation front-end solution powering LTE devices. The highly integrated platform provides smartphone makers ...
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In preliminary estimates for its fiscal third-quarter 2016 (to 27 March), Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA expects revenue of $367m, about 11.5% below the targeted $400-430m, and down from $435.8m the prior quarter and $409.5m a year ago. ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has entered into a 150MW module supply agreement with Cypress Creek Renewables (CCR), which ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has surpassed 1GWDC of photovoltaic (PV) solar capacity shipped to India, making it the first thin-film PV module manufacturer to achieve this ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that Epistar Corp of Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan (the world's largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) has achieved all milestones in ...
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Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) says that its new non-hermetic 25Gbit/s 1.3μm distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes for 100Gb/s transceivers are now fully ...
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Schaeffler, a German supplier of rolling element bearings to automotive and aerospace industry has unveiled a bio-hybrid powered personal mobility concept vehicle. The company says that increasing traffic and increasing emission levels in ...
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