China has experienced less serious desertification over the past decade with data revealing that desertified areas have been shrinking, the forestry authority said on Tuesday. By the end of 2014, there was 2.61 million square kilometers ...
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U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars. Images taken from the Mars orbit showed dark, finger-like markings that, typically less than ...
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NASA released radar images of a large asteroid that made a relatively close approach to Earth on Saturday. Scientists said the flyby provided one of the best opportunities in years to gather data about a passing space rock. NASA Jet ...
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A group of British marine scientists are digging into the ocean's "twilight zone" to understand the processes involved in carbon transport in the oceans. As CRI's Victor Ning reports, the scientists are hoping that the research will lead ...
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Global mean temperature at the Earth's surface is set to reach one degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels this year. The data was released by Britain's Met Office on Monday. Director of the Met Office Hadley Center, Stephen Belcher, ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received multiple orders from a leading foundry in Asia for its Precision Surface Processing (PSP) WaferStorm system (a platform that provides ...
Tags: Veeco Wet processing, Veeco Instruments Inc, Electronics
Leading company in chemicals Stahl joined forces with Rinspeed, the creative think-tank and mobility lab for the automotive industry. The result is a 'driverless car' with a futuristic and sustainable car interior featuring eye-catching ...
Veeco Instruments has received multiple orders from a leading foundry in Asia for its Precision Surface Processing (PSP) WaferStorm system. The WaferStorm platform provides wafer processing solutions for advanced packaging applications. ...
Tags: Veeco Instruments, Fan-out Wafer Level Packaging, Packaging
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has launched two new low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) for global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Each device integrates all output ...
Acura today announced additional launch details for the next-generation 2017 Acura NSX supercar, coming to market next spring, including pricing and the order taking process. Acura also revealed plans to auction off the very first serial ...
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Precoat Metals has acquired the metal coil coating and processing assets of Consolidated Metal Products, a business unit of Consolidated Systems. The assets located in Columbia, South Carolina, will be operated as a toll processing ...
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SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of plasma etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment systems to compound semiconductors device makers, has launched an atomic layer deposition (ALD) system focusing on gate oxide ...
China sents into space the country's first Dark Matter Particle Explorer Satellite on Thursday. [Photo: weibo.com] China on Thursday sent into space the country's first space telescope in a fresh search for signals of dark matter, ...
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A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
Tags: GaN p-n junction diodes, GaN Power Switches, solid-state lighting
Université Grenoble Alpes in France and Applied Materials in the USA have been developing techniques to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon substrates with a small offcut angle [Y. Bogumilowicz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, ...
Tags: GaAs, Quasi-Nominal Silicon, MOVPE