Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been exploring the potential of using 'van der Waals epitaxy' (vdWE) to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon [Yazeed Alaskar et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., published online 26 August 2014]. The team ...
The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says the IRS needs to do a better job collecting the medical device excise tax created under Obamacare. The inspector general looked at 5,107 Forms 720 from the first half of 2013 ...
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has signed a distribution agreement with AnnealSys SAS of Montpellier, France, which specializes in ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Wednesday the final results of its administrative review of the antidumping (AD) order on stainless steel bar from Brazil. The review covered one company — Villares Metals S.A. — ...
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Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has reported that it is investing a total of RUB 2.9 billion ($80,4 million) in the technical revamping program for Mechel Mining OAO's production facilities. Investment in program ...
(Seattle—July 18, 2014) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 is issuing a proposal to protect one of the world’s most valuable salmon fisheries, in Bristol Bay, Alaska, from the risks posed by large-scale mining at ...
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Ukrainian steel pipe and railway wheel producer Interpipe has announced that the US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced the final determinations in the antidumping (AD) duty investigations of imports of certain oil country tubular ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Monday its final results in the administrative review of the antidumping order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Turkey. The review covers one producer/exporter – Yucel Boru ...
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The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced Monday the final results of its administrative review of stainless steel bar from India. The review originally covered three Indian producers/exporters – Ambica Steels Limited; Mukand, ...
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Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has reported that it has mined its one millionth metric ton of coal since operations began at its Elginsky open pit in Yakutia, Russia. Currently, work still continues on ...
Researchers in Taiwan have applied a non-vacuum process to deposit aluminium oxide (Al2O3) passivation for nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Bo-Yi Chou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 11 ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have produced zinc oxide/gallium nitride (ZnO/GaN) nano-rod light-emitting diodes [Ya-Ju Lee et al, APL Mater. vol2, p056101, 2014]. The researchers avoided complicated polymer processing by using a shadowing effect to ...
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Canadian miner Pan American Silver believes Argentina this year will lift its ban on open-pit mining that forced the company to suspend operations at its Navidad gold project, CEO Geoff Burns said Wednesday. The Vancouver-based company, ...
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Norilsk Nickel is to sell its Avalon and Cawse nickel assets in western Australia to Wingstar Investments, the Russian producer said Wednesday. "The assets encompass the Avalon (formerly Bulong) nickel laterite deposit and processing ...
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National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO, India's largest domestic aluminium producer) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for sourcing an environmentally friendly technology for a 10 tonne per annum (TPA) gallium extraction plant that ...
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