Prof Leonid Kuzmin and co-authors from the Department of Microtechnology and NanoScience at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden have won the 2011 IEEE Van Duzer prize for the best contributed paper published in IEEE Transactions on ...
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Four companies recently received Innovation Awards from the Institute of Physics (IOP) following each company’s successful development and commercialisation of a novel technology which has had significant impact in a range of markets. ...
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EE, the UK's most advanced digital communications company, today announced that 4G will be switched on in a further 27 towns across the country by June 2013, expanding superfast coverage to more than 65 UK towns and cities in total. The ...
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The Duke of York visited the Churchill Hospital in Oxford during December to commemorate the opening of a new building that includes an integrated Cancer and Haematology Centre and provides a base for many NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research ...
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Lifestyle apparel company stocks are making a comeback. PVH Corp. expects to report higher annual revenue and EPS. Its stock mimicked the company's growth and looks all set to provide further value to its investors. However, the sector ...
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UK-based etch and deposition system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), a division of Oxford Instruments, has announced that applications specialist Stephanie Baclet will give a presentation entitled "High throughput for ...
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Winners in the Outdoor category of the fifth annual Next Generation Luminaires™ Solid-State Lighting Design Competition were announced today at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara, CA. Sponsored by DOE, the Illuminating ...
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A self-drive system for cars which could be sold for as little as £100 has been developed by a team at Oxford University. The Oxford RobotCar UK Project is led by Professor Paul Newmanfrom the university's department of engineering ...
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Cleantech investment specialists MTI Partners has announced the completion of a £2 million investment round in Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (OPV), an Oxford University spin-out Materials/Cleantech company commercializing solid-state ...
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UK’s Oxford University researchers have tested a new robotic technology on Nissan Leaf electric car that allows the vehicle drive itself on long routes. The move is aimed at developing everyday vehicles that can offer 'auto drive' ...
UK-based etch and deposition system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), a division of Oxford Instruments, has been granted European patent EP1889946B1 in relation to high-density plasma-assisted thin film deposition. The ...
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Packaging and process technology supplier Bosch Packaging Technology has opened a new sales and service office in Egyptian capital Cairo, in a bid to tap the rapid growth in the food, confectionery, and pharmaceutical industries in the ...
The Government is to fund research into LED-based Gbit/s free-space optical networks. The heavyweight academic team includes the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford and St Andrews, and is lead by the University of Strathclyde. ...
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Researchers at the University of Oxford have found a way to make wafer-sized graphene with good electrical characteristics. Grown on copper using chemical vapour deposition (CVD), the material is not mono-crystalline, but crystal ...
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Professor Martin Dawson of the University of Strathclyde leads LED research Tiny LEDs are being developed by academics to deliver Wi-Fi-like internet communications As well as lighting buildings and outdoor spaces, LEDs are being used ...