UK - Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) supplied lighting for five main 'operated' stages and about 30 other performance areas dotted around the Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK site at the 2012 Secret Garden Party event, as the boutique festival ...
Designers find more and more variants how to make a minimalist piece of furniture that would be also very functional. Nest Chair by All That is one of such pieces – it's just a hard base frame of three 'oriented-strand-board' cutouts ...
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IBM is working with scientists at ETH Zurich to demonstrate the first-ever direct mapping of the formation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor.This has implications for the use of electron spins for storing,transporting and ...
For its fiscal third-quarter 2012 (to end-June), Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes components, subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has reported revenue of $41.1m. This is down 17% on $49.5m a ...
Developer of"black silicon"laser texturing process for imaging and PV applications signs deal with In-Q-Tel. Laser-textured"black"silicon In-Q-Tel(IQT),the technology venture wing of the US Central Intelligence Agency(CIA),has ...
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IBM Research and the Solid State Physics Laboratory at ETH Zurich have developed a new method in which the spin lifetime of electrons is extended by 30 times to 1.1 nanoseconds IBM Research and the Solid State Physics Laboratory at ETH ...
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The German laser company Trumpf is to supply the car maker BMW with 14 of its “TruDisk” lasers, with shipments scheduled to begin this October. Trumpf says that the laser units will feature a variety of beam ...
GSI Group hit by scientific market slowdown 09 Aug 2012 Sales of fiber lasers from subsidiary JK Lasers triple year-on-year, but scientific orders are delayed. JK Lasers' carbon dioxide laser GSI Group, the owner of well-known ...
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Soraa, dedicated in developing GaN solid-state lighting technology, has been selected by Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to lead a project on bulk GaN substrates development. It’s the only ARPA-E funded LED substrate ...
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Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, has been selected by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects ...
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Healthy markets cheer biophotonics suppliers 08 Aug 2012 Double-digit increases in revenues boost confidence,though new business strategies weigh on some. Cutera Pearl Fractional A number of suppliers in the aesthetic and ...
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Soraa will lead DOE funded research on GaN LED substrates 08 Aug 2012 The DOE's transformational-energy agency ARPA-E has selected GaN-on-GaN startup Soraa to lead a project on the development of bulk GaN substrates. Startup Soraa emerged ...
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Zeta Instruments Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides optical profilers for micron-scale surface analysis, says that Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA has ordered multiple units of the Zeta-300 series optical profiler for ...
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STMicroelectronics has is MEMS sensor product business by acquiring the intellectual property and taking on most of the staff of Israeli company bTendo. ST has been working with the Israeli company to combine bTendo's scanning laser ...