Plessey Semiconductors Ltd in the UK has been improving its indium gallium nitride (InGaN)-on-silicon light-emitting diode (LED) technology [Liyang Zhang et al, Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol3, p457, 2015]. A light output ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon LEDs, Plessey MOCVD
Researchers based in USA have been studying performance improvements in aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) ultraviolet (UV) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) gained from using free-standing gallium nitride substrates instead of gallium nitride on ...
Tags: AlGaN, Ultraviolet photodetectors, HVPE
China resumed initial public offerings (IPOs) on Monday, with an industrial explosives maker becoming the first to offer shares to investors following a four-month freeze. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) froze IPOs in ...
Tags: IPOs, industrial explosives maker
Flexible packaging specialist Cosmo Films has announced it will install a 10.4m BOPP line by early 2017. The production line will increase the manufacturer's annual BOPP production capacity from 140k to 200k MT. The installation will be ...
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Researchers in the USA have reduced current leakage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon to the level achieved for devices produced on much more expensive silicon carbide [Bo Song et ...
Tags: AlGaN, transistors, Silicon
Daimler has started operations at its new testing centre in Immendingen, near Tuttlingen, Germany with the Unimog U 430 carrier. The vehicle is used for snow-ploughing, cutting or cleaning and it has a sprayer system at the front of the U ...
In January-October 2015, the foreign investment in China maintained the sound momentum of the first three quarters. Official from the Department of Foreign Investment Administration of MOFCOM pointed out that the foreign investment in China ...
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According to the monitoring of MOFCOM, the prices of farm produce in 36 large and medium-sized cities still picked up and the prices of production means in circulation continued falling last week (November 9–November 15). Last week, ...
Tags: Prices of Farm, vegetable, nonferrous metal
Shintech will raise its liquid caustic soda prices by $40/dry short ton effective immediately or as contract terms allow, the company said Monday in a notice to customers. The Houston-based producer was the third to say it would raise ...
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Margins for non-integrated styrene monomer producers in Asia shrank to their narrowest in 11 months Monday due to firm feedstock ethylene and tumbling SM market amid weak demand season in the fourth quarter. The margin was calculated at ...
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Trinseo, the global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex and rubber, will feature its biocompatibility-tested resins at COMPAMED 2015 in Dusseldorf, Germany at Hall 8B, Stand 8B L39 from November 16 -19. In particular, ...
A team of Florida State University materials researchers has developed a new type of light-emitting diode, or LED, using an organic-inorganic hybrid that could lead to cheaper, brighter and mass produced lights and displays in the future. ...
Tags: LEDs, LED lighting, displays
US-based agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has opened two manufacturing plants in China in order to increase its capacity to meet the growing demand in the country for value added food ingredients and animal nutrition ...
Tags: ADM, Animal Feed, premix products
European Union regulators have concluded that the widely used herbicide glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer, a ruling that runs counter to a controversial assessment issued recently by an arm of the World Health Organization. The ...
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ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA, which manufactures wet-chemical processing equipment (especially for emerging markets and other cost-conscious users of ≤200mm substrates), has sold a Solstice S8 plating system to semiconductor ...
Tags: ClassOne, TRUMPF, Gold Plating