LEGO Minifigures fan site suggests that 16 new iconic Springfield characters are en route this year, alongside a LEGO Kwik-E-Mart Hans Moleman, Groundskeeper Willie, Bartman and a whole host of further Springfield characters are rumoured ...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the USA has developed nitride semiconductor solar cells with high quantum efficiency for short wavelengths (370-450nm) and concentrated photovoltaics at temperatures up to 400°C [Liang Zhao et al, ...
Tags: PV Performance, Electrical
Ear climbers, like this 18-karat rose gold and diamond pair from Stephen Webster, will continue to be popular in the new year. Click through this slideshow to see a piece of jewelry that embodies each of the eight trends outlined for ...
As on 1 January, 2015, a total of 13.958 million bales of cotton arrived at various ginneries in Pakistan, crossing the previous season’s total cotton production of 13.391 million bales. Cotton arrival increased by 10.16 per cent ...
Tags: Cotton Output, Apparel
Researchers in Germany have developed gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon carbide (SiC) layers on silicon wafers [Wael Jatal et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 11 December 2014]. ...
Tags: Cubic Silicon Carbide, Electrical
The collectables specialist has announced a roster of new releases for 2015 featuring some of the most celebrated and niche licenses of recent years. Funko has revealed a swathe of new Pop, Retro-Pop and ReAction figures for the year ...
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The Renminbi exchange rate will remain stable in 2015, a macro economic report from China International Capital Corporation (CICC) predicted Monday. "Despite the weaker spot exchange rate of the Renminbi against the dollar, the ...
Hardide Coatings has invested a six-figure sum in its UK manufacturing facility – increasing its installed capacity by nearly 50 percent to deal with growing demand for its range of nanostructured tungsten carbide coatings. The ...
China’s Xidian University has been developing III-nitride double heterostructures (DHs) with indium gallium nitride (InGaN) channels with a view to high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Yi Zhao et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol105, ...
Tags: HEMTs, InGaN channels
In spite of ecommerce making significant progress in the last few years, it will account for only 5.9 per cent of the total retail market worldwide in 2014, forecasts eMarketer. In its first-ever forecast of the global retail market ...
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For many LED makers, 2014 has been a challenging year, with performance in the first and second halves of the year very polarized for many, notes Roger Chu, research director of LEDinside (a research division of TrendForce). Lighting market ...
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SME fund Enact has made a six-figure investment in flexible packaging company Excelsior which specialises in high quality gravure print for the food, confectionery and medical sectors. Enact's investment is aimed at helping Excelsior to ...
Tags: food, confectionery, medical sectors, Agriculture
Mazda Motor Corporation has announced that total global production of the Mazda6 (known as Mazda Atenza in Japan) reached three million units*1 at the end of November 2014. The milestone figure was reached in approximately 12 years and nine ...
Tags: Mazda model, safety technologies, Auto
A survey by The Economist reveals that Asian women are increasingly empowered financially and they are the one’s driving the explosive growth of e-commerce in the region. The magazine did a detailed survey of 5,500 women across ...
Tags: Ecommerce Trade, Female consumers, Apparel
According to the revised data issued by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on December 19, the country’s final gross domestic product (GDP) figure for 2013 has been recorded at RMB 58.8019 trillion ($9.58 trillion), ...
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