Stranded on the barren red planet Mars with few supplies available, astronaut Mark Watney played by Hollywood actor Matt Damon in The Martian is fighting for survival against harsh natural elements. To sustain himself, Damon’s ...
Tags: NASA, LED grow lights, space
The gallium nitride (GaN) substrate market will grow from $2.2bn in 2014 to more than $4bn by 2020, forecasts research and consulting firm IndustryARC in the report 'Gallium Nitride (GaN) Substrates Market Analysis: By Type (GaN on ...
Tags: Diameters, GaN Substrate Market
Ishida Europe has introduced a new high speed leak detector, which will identify leaks in packaging to minimize spoilage in pre-packed retail food products. The new Ishida AirScan rectifies leaks at speeds of up to 180 packs per minute, ...
Tags: Leak Detector, Food Packs
Osaka University in Japan has developed a plasma pre-treatment for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) on gallium nitride (GaN) that avoids creating enlarged etch pits [Hui Deng et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p051602, 2015]. Surface ...
The 16th China Yiwu International Exhibition on Textile Machinery, a global show for the knitting and apparel industry will be held from November 30 to December 3, 2015 at Yiwu International Expo Centre, Zhejiang, China. The 2015 edition ...
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Ten automobile manufacturers were sued by consumers in the US, who have alleged that the risk posed by carbon monoxide poisoning was concealed in over five million vehicles armed with keyless ignitions, reportedly claiming 13 lives so far. ...
Tags: Keyless Ignition, BMW
DHL Express has opened its new Melbourne gateway facility to better support regional businesses operating in and out of Australia. The new facility took a total investment of AUD 20 million, the largest infrastructure amount invested by DHL ...
Tags: service, gateway facility, DHL Express
Eddyline Brewery has installed a CFT canning system to expand its production by more than 40,000 barrel (bbls). Designed by CFT Packaging USA, the canning system triples the cannign speed while minimizing oxidation, loss of aroma, and ...
Tags: CFT canning, X-Ray
NASA astronauts at the International Space Station became the first in the world to taste the first bite of lettuce grown in the microgravity environment of space. They cleaned the produce with citric acid-based, food safe sanitizing ...
Tags: fresh foods, tomatoes, blueberries
While increased offshoring of manufacturing might be hurting the packaging supply chain, there is still “enormous potential growth in the packaging sector both sides of the Tasman”. This is the view of Greg Chapman, managing ...
Everyone knows the dangers of drunk driving, but has poor self-control. Someone after alcohol wants to have an experience of fast driving. All kinds of the lesson of flesh and blood, we should control ourselves! Now, the technology so ...
Mitsubishi Electric has developed an advanced active noise control (ANC) system designed to block out less predictable and unrelated road sounds The system, known as FLEXConnect.ANC, features Mentor Graphics-developed XSeANC technology to ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and photonic applications) has announced initial production shipments of two modulator ...
Tags: Coherent Modules, metro market
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK's University of Cambridge has ordered its Propel Power gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics, LEDs
X-ray-based in-line metrology and defect detection tool maker Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd (JVS) of Migdal Haemek, Israel has received a strategic order for its QC3 high-resolution x-ray diffraction (HR-XRD) system for strain and ...