U.S. productivity grew at an even slower annual rate than previously thought in the final three months of last year. Economists are hoping productivity growth will revive in 2014, reflecting a stronger economy. The Labor Department says ...
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American Technical Ceramics Corp. (ATC), the leader in design and manufacture of high RF power ceramic capacitor assembly products, will be exhibiting a wide range of specialty thin film components at the OFC 2014 Conference in San ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a wideband frequency doubler for point-to-point radios ...
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At last year’s IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC), Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA (which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules) introduced the first - and only - ...
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In the last century, silicon-based power electronics (which control or convert electrical energy into usable power) transformed the computing, communication, electric vehicle and energy industries and gave consumers and businesses more ...
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The Semiconductor Industry Association trumpeted that worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $26.28bn for January, an increase of 8.8% from January 2013 when sales were $24.15bn, marking the industry’s highest-ever January sales ...
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With CATV and broadband services becoming integral parts of service providers bundles, network infrastructure is evolving rapidly to keep up with growing demand, notes the Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technology (GaAs) ...
Optical communication product maker Source Photonics Inc of Chatsworth, CA, USA has announced what it claims is the first 100Gb/s LR4 optical transceiver in the compact QSFP28 form factor. Based on the IEEE 100GBASE-LR4 standard, the ...
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Old materials are new again as companies scramble to replace polycarbonate dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The material is chosen for its ability to permit electrostatic attraction and repulsion to ...
SOUTH KOREA: Metro operators in Seoul, Daejon and Incheon have achieved power savings of more than 20% using ultracapacitor braking energy recuperation technology, according to ultracapacitor manufacturer Maxwell Technologies. Up to 200 ...
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The demand in electric cars has been a source of good news for several companies like Maxwell Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:MXWL). The demand for electric cars is expected to provide for a secondary demand boost for the company’s products ...
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TSMC Solar Ltd of Taichung, Taiwan, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), has agreed for specialty PV distributor Centrosolar ...
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Following the deaths of two siblings in Massachusetts, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is renewing its warning to consumers about the dangers associated with storage, cedar, hope and toy chests. Lids on millions of ...
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CRAIC Technologies of San Dimas, CA, USA has introduced the FilmPro film thickness measurement software package, designed to plug in to the firm’s microspectrophotometers and their controlling Lambdafire software to allow measure ...
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Stion Corp of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes nanostructure-based CIGS (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film photovoltaic panels, has produced a 23.2% efficiency thin-film cell based on its proprietary tandem junction ...
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