Ice and snow in downtown Luoyang melted away last weekend. But thanks to the previous freezing and moist weather, rime ice can be appreciated in Louyang's mountainous areas. Rime ice occurs when sudden cold weather forces fog to freeze into ...
Tags: Rime Ices, Mountainous Areas, Luoyang
“It is only a matter of time before white LEDs using blue LED chips will disappear from the market,” said Shuji Nakamura at a forum on GaN technology in July organized by Nikkei Asian Review. The comment from the inventor of ...
Tags: LED chip, Blue LED, Purple LEDs
For second-quarter 2015, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $7.1m, down 51% on $14.5m a ...
Tags: Mobile Market, LED light, LED bulb
Luxury automobile manufacturer Audi will showcase its Matrix OLED lighting technology at International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany, in September. Claiming to display a lighting homogeneity and being light-weight and efficient, Matrix ...
Tags: Luxury automobile, OLED lighting
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has for the first time, it is claimed, combined a novel synthesis process with commercial electron-beam lithography techniques to produce arrays of semiconductor junctions ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, Heterojunctions
Morton Salt is launching food grade manufacturing capabilities at its salt production facilities in Grantsville, Utah and Port Canaveral, Florida with an investment of around $20m. The project will see the installation of a sea salt ...
Using its its proprietary modified Kyropoulos (KY) method, Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia, which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC applications (as well as screen printing ...
A team at IBM Research's Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, with support from the firm's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has developed what it says is a relatively simple, robust and ...
Tags: IBM III-Vs-on-Si, Electrical, Electronics, IBM
In a talk and a tutorial at CLEO 2015 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) in San Jose, CA, USA (10-15 May), a team led by Paul Crump from FBH (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut fur Hoechstfrequenztechnik) of Berlin, Germany ...
Tags: Diode lasers, FBH
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has introduced the VERSABOND pretreatment system, a fast kinetic-efficient zinc-phosphate pretreatment formulation that improves the corrosion resistance of mixed-metal substrates while ...
Researchers based in Japan claim the highest output power and external quantum efficiency (EQE) so far for deep ultraviolet (DUV) sub-270nm-wavelength light-emitting diodes (LEDs) during DC operation [Shin-ichiro Inoue et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Tags: DUV LEDs, DUV devices
Alessi is creating unique collections almost every day. Designers are creating fabulous designs and making beautiful and unique kitchen and dining accessories. Oil-vinegar cruet created by Peter Zumthor proposes a completely new ...
These earrings, made in 14-karat rose gold and set with diamonds, are part of the “Petal” family of design in Swarovski’s new line of fine jewelry, launching in independent jewelry retailers and the brand’s ...
Tags: Swarovski, Fine Jewelry
For full-year 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $508.2m, up 10.7% on $459m for 2013. 5N Plus provides purified metals such as bismuth, gallium, ...
Tags: 5N Plus, Commodity Pricing
Researchers at the UK’s University College London (UCL), in collaboration with groups at the University of Bath and Daresbury Laboratory’s Scientific Computing Department in Warrington, UK, are said to have uncovered why blue ...