Tom Dixon is ready to showcase his adventures in materials at the MAISON&OBJET PARIS show in September. The aluminium and the stone, the wood and the glass, the wax, the iron and brass – all come to life with new shapes, new smells ...
University of Montpellier in France claims the first continuous-wave (cw) operation at room temperature of a 15μm indium arsenide (InAs) quantum cascade laser (QCL) [Alexei N. Baranov et al, Optics Express, vol. 24, p18799, 2016]. "To ...
Tags: University of Montpellier, InAs, MBE
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has used limited-area epitaxy (LAE) on semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) substrates to reduce misfit dislocation (MD) densities in multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting ...
Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
Tags: GaAsP solar cells, GaAsP, MBE, MOCVD
Hygiena International wraps up its series of weekly articles that discuss monitoring microbiological contamination on surfaces. This week's fourth and final piece provides insight into the topic of 'Measuring swab performance'. There are ...
Tags: Hygiena International, Measuring swab performance, swab and rinse
Researchers in Germany have been developing an epitaxial lift-off (ELO) process that would allow gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates to be reused for indium gallium aluminium phosphide (InGaAlP) thin-film light-emitting diode (LED) ...
Austrian aluminium producer Amag rolling has selected Primetals Technologies to upgrade the drive technology on the four-high cold rolling stand at its facility in Ranshofen in a bid to increase availability. As part of the deal, ...
Tags: Ranshofen, AMAG, converters
Tom Dixon unveils new minimalist stationery COG A series of super-functional accessories, inspired by great British engineering and made from brass-plated solid aluminium. Creating a sense of the tooled and the machined, these pieces ...
Tags: brass-plated solid aluminium, minimalist stationery, stapler
Coca-Cola Group bottler Société des Boissons Gazeuses du Souss (SBGS) has selected Sacmi solutions for its ultra-clean filling process. SBGS will produce bottles of one of Moocco's biggest water brands Ciel using Sacmi's ...
Tags: Filling Process, Coca-Cola
LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the HXB Series LED high-bay luminaire, which is claimed to be the first of its kind to operate in extreme ambient temperatures spanning -40F to +149F and ...
In its newsletters in April 2016 and June 2015 in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany reported on x-ray diffraction (XRD)-gauged nk database improvements for InGaAsP (indium gallium arsenide phosphide) and InGaAlAs ...
LED maker Kingbright Co LLC City of Industry, CA, USA has launched what it claims is the industry's smallest SMD LED, the HELI-UM series. The 0.65mm x 0.35mm x 0.20mm (0201) footprint of the HELI-UltraMiniature allows it to fit into ...
Osaka University in Japan has developed a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) process for the growth of gallium nitride (GaN) in a sodium (Na) flux with a small amount of carbon (C) that, with the addition of lithium (Li) and gallium, can also be ...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has granted €20m loan to Croatian packaging producer Aluflexpack Group (AFP Group) to fund the expansion of its flexible packaging product range and aluminium-based product ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, packaging
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Global Research Center in the USA "experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, bi-directional 4H-silicon carbide planar gate, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) fabricated on ...
Tags: Bipolar Transistor