Menu launched their brand new collection of furniture, lighting and accessories at the Maison & Objet Paris design show. The new collection is made up of carefully considered pieces, which are both pure and minimalist, whilst integrating ...
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The president of the United Nations General Assembly's office has received a makeover from Danish furniture brand Republic of Fritz Hansen. Currently occupied by Mogens Lykketoft who also comes from Denmark, the office is located at the ...
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VisIC Technologies Ltd of Nes Ziona, Israel, a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MISHEMTs) founded in 2010, has launched a new ...
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Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...
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Researchers in Russia have developed an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) quantum well laser diode on (001) germanium-on-silicon 'virtual substrate' without offcut angle [V. Ya. Aleshkin et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p061111, 2016]. ...
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At the MAISON&OBJET PARIS show this September, Tom Dixon has launched two new scents: Alloy and Stone, as part of their Materialism Scent range. ALLOY The Alloy family is made of precious wax, a contemporary fusion of amber and metal ...
For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...
RASIRC Inc of San Diego, CA, USA (whose products purify and deliver ultra-pure liquids and gases) has renewed its funding agreement with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for on-going semiconductor processing research. The gift ...
As a key role in manufacturing, CNC machine tools have been emphasized by developed countries. China's CNC machine tools occupied about 30% in 2015, which indicates a big gap with developed countries such as Japan, the United States, and ...
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA have claimed record transconductance for III-V fin field-effect transistors (finFETs) when normalized according to fin width [Alon Vardi and Jesús A. del Alamo, ...
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's has issued a recall for its cookie dough ice cream amid doubts over possible presence of contain small pieces of metal. The company has asked some of its consumers who purchased 500ml cartons of Cookie Dough ...
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Tom Dixon is ready to showcase his adventures in materials at the MAISON&OBJET PARIS show in September. The aluminium and the stone, the wood and the glass, the wax, the iron and brass – all come to life with new shapes, new smells ...
The BIG LUMEN Lighting Co., creator of the award-winning Foreverlamp™ LED Retrofit Lamp Series, announced that its HB™ Series High-Bay LED fixtures have been added to the DesignLights™ Consortium (DLC) Qualified Products ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has used limited-area epitaxy (LAE) on semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) substrates to reduce misfit dislocation (MD) densities in multiple quantum well (MQW) green light-emitting ...
Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
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