LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has demonstrated a single high-power LED delivering luminous flux of nearly 1600 lumens at a luminous efficacy of 134 lumens per watt (lm/W, or LPW) with similar color ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has again raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion efficiency, from 21.5% (reported in February 2015) to 22.1%, as certified at the Technology and ...
Tags: PV Cell, thin film PV
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) developer Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added to its growing product line with the CMD233, a 2-20GHz gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC distributed low-noise amplifier (LNA) that offers wide ...
The worldwide wearable device market took a big step forward in the fourth quarter of 2015, fueled by the growing popularity of fitness trackers and the Apple Watch. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, vendors ...
Tags: Wearable Market, Wearable Device
According to figures published by IDC, in the fourth quarter of 2015 over 14 million tablets were shipped to Western Europe as the market volume declined 10.1% on year. In value terms, however, the decline was only 1.8% on year, thanks to ...
Tags: Tablets, iPad volumes
Restalk has completed first prototype created from 100% recycled marijuana stalk. Allocating a small portion of its processed source material, Restalk engineered a sustainable and tree-free paper product. Restalk's newly appointed ...
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SanDisk has announced robust and intelligent solutions to store vast data that will be generated through connected applications in automotive and industrial markets. The company introduced its latest generation SanDisk Automotive flash ...
Tags: SanDisk, Storage, IOT Applications
To achieve its ambitions to become a global innovation and technology hub by 2030, Shanghai is going all-out to attract foreign talent to speed up its transformation. Since June, the city government has introduced several beneficial ...
Tags: Talent Policies, foreign talent
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2016) in Barcelona, Spain (22–25 February), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog RF, microwave, millimeter-wave and ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Transistors
CDF, a manufacturer of drum, pail, intermediate bulk container and bag in box liners and flexible packaging, has received UN Certification for its combination package; fiberboard box with a plastic bag. The company said that the ...
Tags: drum, bulk container
ThinFilm Electronics has partnered with Constantia Flexibles, a manufacturer of flexible packaging and labels, to offer smart packaging solutions to the beverages market. The firms have agreed to jointly deliver pressure sensitive labels ...
Tags: Smart Packaging, ThinFilm Partners
MTU Friedrichshafen, a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce and Chinese company Guangxi Yuchai Machinery have started a joint venture. Each company will invest an amount of 75m RMB (around 10.5m Euro). Under the licence from MTU, of MTU diesel ...
Tags: Rolls-Royce, MTU Engines
After unveiling its third generation of in-situ metrology tools last October, in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany says that the EpiTT Gen3 is now available as the first representative of this Gen3 product class. ...
Tags: UV LED epitaxy, sapphire
POET Technologies Inc of San Jose, CA, USA — which has developed the proprietary planar optoelectronic technology (POET) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated III-V-based electronic and optical devices on a single ...
Tags: POET, Initial Market
In its report 'Global Packaged Gallium Nitride (GaN) LED Market 2016-2020' – which forecasts a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 5% – market research firm Technavio has profiled the top four leading vendors (Cree ...
Tags: GaN LED, LED Market