Every time a year near the end of the U.S. "time" magazine will be named the "twenty-five best inventions", the standard magazine founded in 1923 are surprisingly consistent, is to make the world a better and more intelligent, more ...
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Mizkan America Food Ingredients Division has announced the addition of Hatch Valley Roasted chiles to its line of pepper products. Sourced from the famous farmlands of Hatch Valley in New Mexico, where the perfect blend of soil and ...
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The UK's University of Cambridge and Japan's National Institute for Materials Science have developed single-photon emission devices using layers of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) [Carmen ...
Taiwan based Victor Taichung Machinery Works is planning to introduce its new VM-280E injection press designed to manufacture thin-walled objects, at the K 2016 event scheduled to be held from 19-26 October in Düsseldorf, Germany. At ...
Nearly 60 percent of the real estate agents polled said they are seeing more smart home features in listing descriptions than they did two to five years ago. Everyone is talking about the connected home. Smart home technology is becoming ...
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Imec and Ghent University in Belgium have used aspect ratio trapping (ART) techniques to produce indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) on 300mm-diameter silicon in a ridge format that could be used in future laser ...
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Molecular-level filter could revolutionize energy-intense chemical process Significantly reduces amount of energy used in polyester and plastic manufacturing Research published in nation’s leading peer-reviewed journal, ...
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Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) claims a record low subthreshold swing of 68mV/decade for a gallium arsenide (GaAs) field-effect transistor (FET) [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 24 ...
Panera Bread has announced that it will serve clean bacon on its sandwiches and salads that is free of artificial preservatives, flavors, sweeteners and colors from artificial sources prohibited by the company’s No No List, and ...
Researchers in China have developed indium gallium nitride (InGaN) photovoltaic devices that increase in efficiency with temperature up to 423K [Zhaoying Chen et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol109, p062104, 2016]. "The positive efficiency ...
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Hood River Distillers has unveiled Directors’ Reserve, a Canadian whisky aged for twenty years in American oak barrels and named after the Pendleton Round-Up Directors. In tribute to the time-honored artistry of Pendleton Whisky, ...
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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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co Ltd of Ritto City, Shiga, Japan (founded in October 2015), a group company of Tokyo-based machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI), has agreed with D-process Inc of Yamato, Kanagawa, ...
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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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As part of the Local Control of Materials Synthesis (LoCo) program of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU) have developed the new electron-enhanced atomic layer deposition ...