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 ...
Tags: MOCVD System, LED, Epistar
Retailers suffered a quiet Easter weekend, with Ipsos Retail Performance reporting a drop in footfall of -2.9% across the UK, in comparison to 2015, when Easter fell a fortnight later. Dr Tim Denison, director of retail intelligence at ...
Data released by Local Data Company (LDC) and the British Independent Retailers Association (bira) shows that independents opened the fewest number of shops in Britain’s top 500 town centres since LDC records began in 2009. The number ...
Tags: Local Data Company, LDC, Bira, Independent Shops
Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology fabricated on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, says that its LED lamps have been installed at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers ...
Tags: Soraa, GaN-on-GaN, Oxford, LED Lighting
They may be childish, but board games are far from child's play as a new wave of titles taking on the subject of sex demonstrate. Robert Hutchins dims the lights, puts on some Marvin Gaye and explores the world of 'love games'. To quote ...
Tags: Fifty Shades of Grey line, Lovehoney, The beast, Fog of love, Notting hill
For its fiscal third-quarter 2016 (to end-January), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported revenue of $309.2m, down 3.7% on $321.1m last quarter but up slightly on $306.8m a ...
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LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has launched the LUXEON XR-3020, an ultra-slim module that serves as a building block for TLEDs or thin office and industrial fixtures. As the latest addition to the Matrix Platform family of ...
Tags: Lumileds, LUXEON XR-3020
Eulitha AG of Würenlingen, Switzerland (a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen that offers nano-lithographic equipment and services for photonics and optoelectronic applications) says that one of its PhableR 100 ...
Tags: Eulitha, Nanopatterning HB-LEDs
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp says that on 1 July it will start shipping a laser-diode transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) capable of supporting 100Gbps optical transmissions. The new FU-402REA is being displayed at the Optical ...
Tags: Mitsubishi Electric, EML TOSA
Projectors usually need hooking up to a set-top box, games console or other device to turn your lounge into a home cinema. But not the Z4 Aurora. It runs Android, so connect it to your Wi-Fi and you can access Netflix, Amazon Prime ...
Tags: Z4 Aurora, Android, Built-in speaker
The Miitomo launch trailer has given us a chance to see what Nintendo’s first smartphone app can do. The app allows you to create and dress up your own in-game avatar, or Mii, and then answer random questions asked to you, to ...
Tags: Miitomo, Trailer, Smartphone, App
China Headgear and parts thereof exports trend from 2011 to 2014 From the picture above, China headgear exports had a tendency to increase during this period. In 2014, the headgear export value was USD 4545 million, 28.5% higher than ...
EFFECT Photonics b.v. – a spin off from the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) in The Netherlands that develops optical components using indium phosphide (InP)-based multi-channel photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for mobile ...
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany says that its new TEN° binning provides the basis for what is claimed to be unprecedented color consistency for white LEDs, used for example as single-LED light sources in spotlights ...
X-FAB Silicon Foundries of Erfurt, Germany - a mixed-signal IC, sensor and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry – has entered wide-bandgap semiconductor production by announcing the availability of silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET SiC Schottky barrier diodes SiC power devices