For its fiscal third-quarter 2014 (ended 26 January), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported a sixth consecutive quarter of revenue growth, to a record $294m. This is up 1.1% ...
Following news that iconic electronics and services brand AWA entered administration last month after more than a century in the Australian industry, Panasonic Australia has confirmed that it has withdrawn its ties with the embattled ...
New York-based start-up Paper Battery Company is partnering with one of the world’s largest specialized battery pack manufacturers TWS Industrial to commercialize the company’s breakthrough ultrathin ultracapacitor technology ...
Tags: battery pack, ultrathin ultracapacitor technology, ultrathin packaging
Five years ago today, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exoplanets, in search of potentially habitable ...
Following the boom in expansion of the Chinese LED market in 2011, many industry insiders and analysts speculated on whether China would be able to sustain the growth, or if many companies simply ordered an excessive amount of metal-organic ...
Tags: LED market, LED industry
NTEA, the Association for the Work Truck Industry will be opening of its first Canadian office in Ottawa, ON. “Around the world, governments have begun to recognize the economic benefits associated with global truck platforms, ...
To buy, or not to buy? That is the question for the more than 5 million annual visitors to New York's wineries. Cornell University researchers found that customer service is the most important factor in boosting tasting room sales, but ...
Tags: Service, Winery Sales, New York's wineries
Saica has raised £4,800 for the Newlife Foundation during the last two years by donating non-standard recyclable items to the Foundation's trading team. Normally, the Saica team processes or trades all of the materials collected ...
February’s Class 8 truck orders were the fifth best since mid-2006, according to ACT Research, which publishes new and used commercial vehicle data and market analysis for vehicles Class 5 - 8. ACT analysts expect that about 19,600 ...
The research showed 97% of respondents said the problem occurs when reopening a container, with paint drying up on the rim and lid of containers and flakes falling into the paint, resulting in poor quality. RPC says its Superfos FlakeFree ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, RPC Plastic Paint Containers, Containers
Using an inexpensive inkjet printer, University of Utah electrical engineers produced microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information. This new technique, which controls electrical conductivity within such ...
Tags: Squeezing Light, Metals, Inkjet Printer
Consistent improvements in technology and gradually lower costs will drive high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) systems to superior efficiencies, making HCPV an increasingly viable rival to conventional solar-generating solutions, ...
Tags: HCPV systems, lower costs, CPV pioneers
Scientists who study past pandemics, such as the 14th century Black Death that devastated much of Europe, might soon be turning to an innovative biological detection technology for some extra help. The apparent first use of this ...
Tags: Ancient Human Remains, Microbial Detection, Array Detects Plague
In booth #1531 at the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC 2014) in San Francisco, CA (11-13 March), GigOptix Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (a fabless supplier of analog ...
Tags: coherent optical link design, live demonstration, VCSEL driver
Lund University has developed multi-gate (MuG) III-V metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with a cut-off frequency of 210GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency of 250GHz, “the highest of any reported ...
Tags: effect transistors, fins, plasma, Electrical&Electronics