A new engine option has been announced for the latest-generation Range Rover that recently went on sale in Australia. The 3.0-litre supercharged V6 petrol engine that debuted in the Jaguar XJ limo in 2012 will make its way into the luxury ...
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ISSCC 2013 - 60th Anniversary Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's ...
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The Audi RSQ3 has been revealed ahead of the performance Q model’s debut at next month’s Geneva motor show. Audi’s first-ever SUV-based RS model is powered by a 228kW/420Nm 2.5-litre direct-injection turbocharged ...
The DrySyn MULTI from Asynt allows scientists to perform safe, productive heating and stirring experiments with the widest possible range of laboratory glassware. Affordably priced the DrySyn MULTI converts any standard hotplate stirrer ...
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Europe is failing to manage its resources sustainably, unnecessarily sending valuable materials to incineration and landfill, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth Europe. The European Union currently landfills and ...
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Vishay has announced a rance of surface-mount 150°C (2,000hr life) aluminium electrolytic capacitors with resistance down to 35mΩ (100kHz) and ripple current to 1.35A. Called 160 CLA, the devices meet IPC/JEDEC J-STD-020 ...
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But passing the half-way mark of this interim profit season, we now have proof that his real error was putting a super-profits tax on the wrong industry. While profits were sliding at Rio Tinto, OZ Minerals and Wesfarmers' coal division, ...
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The news came from the Environment Agency, which revealed yesterday that five companies, who were not named, had “been identified as not meeting their obligations” under the PRN and PERN systems. “The relevant agencies are ...
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£1m will take to the stage at the forthcoming IMHX 2013 exhibition to explain how they can enable companies to expand their businesses. Fiona Strong, who runs Ark-H, in Wilstead, Bedfordshire, will talk about how securing the ...
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Opening your freezer at home gives you an idea of how extremely cold it must be in a frozen warehouse. To be more precise: Arctically cold. The ambient temperature in a chilled warehouse can be as low as -39 °C, in a frozen warehouse ...
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A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an etch stop technique to improve performance of recessed-gate nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MISFETs) [Bin Lu et al, IEEE Electron ...
Tags: GaN MISFET GaN MOCVD, Electronics, Etch
Researchers in China have developed an atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique to create distributed Bragg reflectors (DBR) for increasing nitride semiconductor light-emitting diode (LED) output power by up to 43% [Hongjun Chen et al, Appl. ...
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University of Notre Dame (UND) in the USA and epiwafer maker IQE have claimed record-breaking balanced frequency performance for a nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) using indium aluminium gallium nitride ...
The Opel Corsa OPC has landed, the smallest car in Opel’s local performance line-up starting at $28,990. The entry point into the Opel Performance Centre (OPC) range, the new Opel Corsa OPC is the pocket-rocket stepping stone to the ...
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The Skoda Superb is being readied for a mid-life facelift, with the five-year-old large liftback soon to adopt styling cues from the company’s brand new Rapid and Octavia models. As our spy pictures show, the Superb keeps the round ...