Institute of Electronic, Microelectronic and Nanotechnology (IEMN) in France and EpiGaN nv in Belgium have claimed a record combination of specific on-resistance and breakdown voltage for a double heterostructure field-effect transistor ...
Ordinary fishing line and sewing thread have joined forces in the lab to create incredibly strong artificial muscles. The new artificial muscles could someday lend superhuman strength to robots and wearable exoskeletons for humans. The ...
Natural-gas prices fell 17% since Monday, the largest two-day drop in the market more than six years, as investors continued to take profits from last week's rally. Futures for March delivery settled down 34.9 cents, or 6.4%, at $5.096 a ...
Tags: Natural-Gas, Mineral
“The mild winter hit this category hard, resulting in a 10 per cent unit and 14 per cent value decline, compared to 2012,” said Sunbeam product manager — seasonal products, Katie Berra. “Even with the best products, ...
Tags: electric blanket market, restore value to the market, warm weather
Awarded for the Best Home Technology Product from the National Association of Home Builders and packed with patent-pending proprietary technology, trutankless™ is engineered to outperform and outlast both its tank and tankless ...
Tags: patent-pending proprietary technology, smart home tech
On a typical evening in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City, the neon-lit Aeon Mall Tan Phu Celadon bustles with shoppers arriving on motorcycles and in taxis. Crowds fill every corner of the new mall, with a takeout sushi store in particular ...
Tags: Consumer Market, Electronics
Gasoil demand from Belgium, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland -- the main consumption centers in Northwest Europe -- is down a quarter this winter amid mild weather and a longer-term shift away from the product, traders said Monday. ...
Tags: Gasoil demand, Mineral
The new pumps of the Turbovac i product line consistently offer a higher performance even for widely differing requirements. Through their additional compression stage, the Turbovac 350 i and 450 i are particularly well suited for ...
Tags: Turbo Molecular Pumps, Pumps
Deployed in commercial buildings and campus microgrids, direct current (DC) power supply equipment reduces the number of required conversions between alternating current (AC) and DC power, thereby increasing overall building energy ...
Gulf Coast propane prices continued to hold a premium over Midcontinent product Wednesday as the market stabilizes into its traditional price relationship. Propane at Mont Belvieu, Texas, was assessed at $1.555/gal on Wednesday while ...
Tags: Propane, Gulf Coast
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and epiwafer foundry IQE Inc have developed 1.3μm-wavelength indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) lasers grown on silicon (Si) with “record performance” [Alan Y. Liu et al, ...
Tags: Silicon, `Quantum Dot Lasers
The US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have co-developed inexpensive material that has the potential to capture and convert solar energy — particularly from the bluer part ...
Tags: Solar Cells, High-Energy Photons
Researchers associated with Taiwan National Central University and Epistar Corp are developing a method to transfer indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to ceramic aluminium nitride (AlN) substrates for high-voltage ...
Tags: InGaN LED, Ceramic Substrate
University of Notre Dame (UND) is developing gallium nitride (GaN) quantum dots in aluminium nitride (AlN) as a route to deep ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Jai Verma et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., v104, p021105, 2014]. ...
Tags: UV Light Emission, LEDs
The latest version of the "motor-mounted" speed control system for centrifugal pumps was designed specifically to cater to heating and air-conditioning applications. The system makes it possible to reduce energy costs by matching pump ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, Pump