Researchers in Singapore and Norway have teamed up to create a device that can crack quantum key distribution(QKD),a technique for securing digital communication originally designed to foil hackers. QKD allows two remote parties to ...
PTI reported that tax sleuths searched the premises of a West Bengal based leading steel and iron products producer and registered a case for alleged central excise duty evasion of at least INR 30 crore. Official sources said that the ...
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Business Standard reported that state controlled miner Odisha Mining Corporation will submit a fresh application for mining lease of Karlapat bauxite deposits after completing due verification of forest and non-forest land and quantum of ...
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Does true literacy now include the ability to write software programs, just as it does the ability to read, write and do sums? 2012 saw a surge of sentiment in the press and blogosphere that we should think of programming as a vital ...
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IDG News Service-Continuing its push to virtualize all aspects of the data center,VMware is acquiring software-defined networking firm Nicira for$1.26 billion,the companies announced Monday. "I believe we have the same opportunity to do ...
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There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets that should be the focus for investors today. Even with new mine supply and refining capacity ...
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Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, has used nanocolumns of nitride semiconductor to produce different emission color LEDs in a single growth process for what is claimed to be the first time [Katsumi Kishino et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, ...
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White light There are two primary ways of producing white light-emitting diodes (WLEDs), LEDs that generate high-intensity white light. One is to use individual LEDs that emit three primary colors— red, green, and blue — and ...
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BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia says that it has succeeded in its initial laboratory experiments in developing p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) material (essential for making up the top layers of a nitride LED). Spun off from the ...
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The Council of Saudi Chambers has welcomed the government’s move to boost the Kingdom’s automobile industry with the signing of the agreement on Tuesday in Riyadh to build a new Land Rover manufacturing plant in Saudi Arabia. ...
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Luxembourg-registered Element Six (which is part of the De Beers Family of Companies and is co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has opened its first US manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley (in Santa Clara, CA), as part of its ...
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Yale University has developed techniques to release nitride semiconductor layers and transfer them to other substrates, allowing vertical current-flow light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Yu Zhang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol100, p181908, 2012]. ...
Ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV LED) maker Sensor Electronic Technology Inc (SETi) of Columbia, SC, USA has been honored with the Tibbetts Award for the role it has played in R&D for the US Government under the Small Business ...
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Director general of Export Processing Zone Administration (EPZA) W.G. Huang noted that export value, number of firms and employees all have grown in Taiwan’s export processing zones (EPZs), with revenues likely to hit historical high ...
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have presented the shortest-gate working transistors yet built using III-V channels [J. Lin et al, IEDM, session 32.1]. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors ...
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