The US will start an investigation into whether thermoplastic components used in various German and Japanese vehicle models sold in the country violate its patent laws. The US International Trade Commission (USITC) has voted to institute ...
German authorities have raided Audi’s offices and homes of several officials over the emissions test cheating scandal by its parent firm Volkswagen. The authorities allege that Audi engineers and managers might have installed the ...
In a letter to the USDA's Office of Inspector General, The Cornucopia Institute has requested an independent audit of the National Organic Program, charging multiple illegal actions and inactions. The Wisconsin-based farm policy research ...
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China has "basically" achieved this year's steel and coal capacity reduction goals, according to a State Council statement. A statement released after a State Council executive meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang spoke highly of ...
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HERE has unveiled next generation vehicle-sourced data services for automotive industry, intended at making driving safer for billions of people across the world. Ahead of this week's Paris Motor Show, HERE outlined how its Open Location ...
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The Swiss-Swedish power and automation company, ABB, will showcase a range of products and services at WEFTEC to help reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs. WEFTEC will take place in New Orleans from 24 – 28 September and ...
Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA, which manufactures multi-junction solar cells and panels for concentrated photovoltaic and spacecraft power systems, says that it has begun manufacturing a higher-efficiency space solar ...
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Luxembourg-based packaging maker Ardagh has signed an agreement to acquire certain metal beverage can manufacturing facilities in Europe, Brazil and the US from US-based beverage can makers Ball and Rexam for $3.42bn. The deal is a ...
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Foreverlamp™, an innovator in retrofit lamp design, will introduce the industry’s first 1000W plug-n-play replacement lamp for Metal Halide lamps during LIGHTFAIR® International. The powerful LED lamp delivers up to 42,000 ...
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Shigeya Kimura, Hisashi Yoshida, Toshihide Ito, Aoi Okada, Kenjiro Uesugi and Shinya Nunoue Metal organic chemical vapor deposition is used to grow aluminum gallium nitride interlayers within indium gallium nitride/gallium nitride ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA, which makes enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) power field-effect transistors (FETs) for power management applications, has made available the EPC9066, EPC9067 ...
Japanese Omron Automotive Electronics (OAE) has agreed to plead guilty and pay $4.6m fine for its involvement in rigging bids for power window switches in Honda Civics, the US department of justice (DoJ) said. The justice department said ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has been developing a hybrid technique to create III-nitride tunnel junctions (TJs) using a combination of metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and molecular beam epitaxy ...
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FormFactor Inc of Livermore, CA, USA (which provides wafer test technologies and expertise) has agreed to acquire Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton, OR, USA (which provides equipment enabling precision contact, electrical measurement and ...
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GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, together with the Centre for Power Electronics of the UK's ...
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