During the second half of 2013, global solar photovoltaic (PV) demand is forecast to reach 20GW, up 22% on year. This increase, driven largely by aggressive PV development in China and Japan, will drive full year 2013 PV demand to a record ...
Tags: China Japan PV, Pipelines
Later this month, IC Insights’ August Update to the 2013 McClean Report will show a ranking of the top 25 semiconductor suppliers in 1H13. A preview of the top 20 companies is listed in Figure 1. The top 20 worldwide semiconductor ...
Tags: Semiconductor Supplier
Ford Australia will cut vehicle production in the lead-up to September’s federal election following record-low sales, which the company has blamed primarily on the government’s proposed fringe benefits tax (FBT) rule changes. ...
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Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BoI) has announced that about N56.48 billion of the N100 billion Cotton, Textiles and Garmenting (CTG) Revival Fund allocated by the Federal Government has been distributed till date. This was ...
Tags: Cotton, Textiles, Garmenting
A comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy report predicting the market penetration of light-emitting diode (LED) white-light sources from 2010 to 2030 is available free from the National Lighting Bureau (www.nlb.org). Titled Energy Savings ...
For fiscal third-quarter 2013 (to end-June), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $33.5m. This is down ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
University of Tokyo has improved the temperature performance of 1.3μm quantum dot (QD) laser diodes bonded to silicon [Katsuaki Tanabe et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p082703, 2013]. Photonic circuits are commonly created in silicon, ...
Tags: Quantum Dot Lasers, Electrical, Electronics
Laser markets keep on an even keel 31 Jul 2013 Longbow Research finds vendors reporting no rude surprises, while fiber laser players continue to tussle. Materials processing The fortunes of US laser vendors during the second quarter of ...
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In the week ended August 5, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.26 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes a decrease of 23 percent ...
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While oil floats on water, achieving good separation and a high quality water stream is difficult. Louis van Schie explains how the Suparator oil separator is designed to carry out this exacting process. Oil/water separation is a common ...
The NSC Group has commissioned the voluntary "Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI)" certification of its entire fleet from Germanischer Lloyd (GL). GL verifies the globally valid EEDI environmental and efficiency standard for vessels and ...
Tags: Transportation, Service
The latest issue of the annual PCI Fibres Red Book (World Synthetic Fibres Supply/Demand Report 2012) shows global fibres demand to have reached 82.1 million tons in 2012, with estimates at the half-year point putting the figure at 85.8 ...
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Researchers based in Belgium have developed gold-free nitride semiconductor Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) on 200mm-diameter silicon to complement metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) previously ...
Tags: Barrier Diodes, Electrical, Electronics
McLaren executive chairman Ron Dennis Ron Dennis is famous as the most successful Formula 1 team boss in the history of the sport, but he is less well known for being a business mentor and shareholder in a celebrated lighting company. ...
Tags: race light, Auto Parts
Osram achieved a good performance in a challenging macroeconomic environment in the third quarter of fiscal 2013. Revenue rose 2% year over year on a comparable basis – excluding portfolio and currency effects – to almost ...