The Architecture Billings Index saw a dip into negative terrain for the first time in five months in January, but inched back up in February with a small increase in demand for design services. As a leading economic indicator of ...
Haruhiko Okumura, Taksahi Sasaki and Aira Hotta The windshield-refracted augmented reality projector is used to achieve hyperreality performance with free depth perception, high visibility, and low eye fatigue. In a head-up display ...
In booth 1655 at the Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC 2016) in Long Beach, CA, USA (20–24 March), Monolith Semiconductor Inc of Round Rock, TX, USA is demonstrating its fast-switching silicon carbide (SiC) ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully developed an environmentally-friendly food packaging material that is free from chemical additives, by fortifying natural chitosan-based composite film with ...
Tags: Eco-Friendly Food, Food Packaging
UK-based AquiSense Technologies (Europe) Ltd, a subsidiary of UV-C LED system manufacturer AquiSense Technologies LLC of Florence, KT, USA, has been selected to participate in the project Biocontamination Integrated Control for Wet Systems ...
Tags: UV LEDs, LED system
PhD Nutrition has created GlycoDurance, an innovative training and race fuel with the lowest serum osmolarity in the industry. GlycoDurance contains three key elements; a scientific blend of electrolytes; Sustamine® ...
As part of its strategy to move more significantly into power semiconductors for industrial and automotive markets, Littelfuse Inc of Chicago, IL, USA has made an investment in silicon carbide (SiC) diode and MOSFET supplier Monolith ...
Tags: SiC MOSFET, SiC Schottky barrier diodes, SiC power devices, Electrical
Matychenkov, soil expert from Russia, has found an exciting new ground for his work in Hunan. [Photos provided to China Daily] Vladimir Matychenkov, a soil expert from Russia, is digging up fields in Central China for sustainable ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has announced the appointment of Dr Wyn Meredith as director of the Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC), the new joint venture between IQE plc and Cardiff University to be ...
Tags: IQE, Compound Semiconductor
New research may help explain why drug treatments for addiction and depression don’t work for some patients. The conditions are linked to reward and aversion responses in the brain. Working in mice, researchers at Washington ...
Tags: medical applications, Micro LED
When asked whether he had envisioned the impact that his revolutionary blue LED would have in years to come, new Nobel physics laureate Shuji Nakamura’s answer was in typically modest and candid. “No!” he replied in a ...
Tags: blue LED, zinc selenide, semiconductor material, LED lighting
Henry Chang-Yu Lee, the forensic scientist, had his own number tag (2056) at the Connecticut Department of Public Safety. But whenever his colleagues phoned for him, they asked for "007". In his career of more than 50 years, the ...
Emerging Chinese director Song Pengfei could hardly believe that his first try at film directing would turn out to be an immediate success. At Friday night, amid applause and enthusiasm, Song, director of a movie entitled Underground ...
Tags: Chinese films, Chicago Film Fest
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) returned to positive territory after a slight dip in August, and has seen growth in six of the nine months of the year so far. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI reflects ...
Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Yang Hwa Technology owner Shih-Hsiung Chan was detained by police on Sept. 11, 2015 for suspected accounting fraud and market manipulation, according to a report by China Times. In mid-June, Chan was ...
Tags: insider trading, Yang Hwa Technology, market manipulation