University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used photo-electro-chemical etch (PEC) to create 405nm-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [C. ...
According to the Brazil Steel Institute (IABr), Brazilian crude steel production in the January-July period this year amounted to 19.68 million metric tons, 0.9 percent lower year on year. In the same period, Brazilian rolled steel output ...
Tags: Brazilian Steel, Exports, Mineral
In July this year, Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal (DSS) saw a 1.09 percent month-on-month increase in its crude steel production to 46,100 mt. The company's output of finished steel in the same period increased by 7.1 ...
France's manufacturing output in June this year increased by 1.6 percent month on month, after a 2.3 percent fall in May, and decreased by 0.9 percent year on year, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of ...
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in June this year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South Africa decreased by 5.8 percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a new high-power gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Radar, MMIC Amplifier
Google and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) have launched the Little Box Challenge, an open competition with a $1m prize to create a much smaller but higher-power-density ...
Tags: inverters, GaN SiC, Power Inverter
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched a transfer-molded super-mini dual in-line package power factor correction (DIPPFC) module incorporating silicon carbide (SiC) transistors and diodes that is expected to help reduce the power ...
Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA, a developer of performance-driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), has launched the CMD206, a DC-50GHz distributed low-noise amplifier (LNA) in die form. The CMD206 features a noise ...
Tags: amplifier, microwave radio
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 announced the availability of a ...
The global solar concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34.1% during 2013-2018, forecasts market research firm TechNavio. A major driver is the reduction in average installation prices of ...
Tags: CPV Market, photovoltaic
Palladium climbed to a 13-year high in the longest run of gains in more than a month in New York on concern supply will lag demand and add to shortages. Gold fell. Palladium, mostly used in catalytic converters in cars alongside platinum, ...
Tags: Palladium, Gold, Electrical
US cotton output is forecast at 17.5 million bales, 1 million bales above July’s projection and 4.6 million bales or 36 percent above last season’s crop, the August report of USDA reveals, which is also the first survey-based ...
Turkish rebar producer Izmir Demir elik Sanayi A.. (IDC) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year. The company stated that the US revising its growth expectations from three percent ...
Tags: Scrap, Metallurgy, Mineral
Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its financial results for the second quarter and the first half of the current year, posting a net profit of TRY 99.2 ...
Tags: Kardemir, Metallurgy, Mineral