The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and University of California Santa Barbara in the USA have developed a wafer bonding technology for III-V materials and silicon (Si) using transparent conductive oxide (TCO) interlayers of ...
Tags: electronic components, semiconductor, TCO IZO Tandem solar cells
Coats Group, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, is launching a fusible thread which helps secure buttons and also other decorative applications such as sequins and beads. Named Secura, the ...
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Renaissance BioScience, a subsidiary of Renaissance Ingredients, has filed a provisional application for patent of its non-GMO acrylamide-reducing (AR) baker’s yeast. The move follows over 20 years of company's research in the ...
Tags: food manufacture, baker
Researchers in China and Hong Kong have claimed the highest output power density and power-added efficiency reported to date for gallium nitride (GaN)-based enhancement-mode metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors ...
Tags: GaN MIS-HEMTs, PECVD ALD MOCVD
ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficiency innovations, is expanding its highly-regarded 1/3-inch 1 megapixel (MP) image sensor portfolio with early sampling of the company’s first backside illuminated (BSI) sensor technology for the ...
US automotive giant Ford Motor is planning to shift the production of Focus small cars and C-Max hybrid vehicles from its Michigan Assembly Plant near Detroit in 2018, to outside US. Even though the automobile major has not disclosed the ...
Tags: automobile, Ford Motor, auto parts, C-Max hybrid vehicles
According to its 2015 Chinese LED Industry Market Report, LEDinside, a division of TrendForce, finds the scale of the Chinese LED package market for 2014 reached US$8.6 billion and grew by 19% annually. The general lighting market has been ...
Tags: LED Package, LED Chip
A new study reveals that drinking low-calorie cranberry juice cocktail may help lower the risk of chronic diseases that rank among the leading causes of death worldwide, including heart disease, diabetes and stroke. To discover the extent ...
X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG of Erfurt, Germany - an analog/mixed-signal and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) foundry - has announced what it claims is the first cost-efficient 180nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology for automotive ...
Tags: X-FAB, SOI, electrical components
Seiko Instruments has announced the release of the new S-35720 Series convenience timer IC suitable for managing relative time after engine shut-down with its optional alarm time in 1 second increments from 1 second to 194 days. The ...
Tags: Automobile technology, automobile manufacture, S-35720 Series
US-based diversified product firm Curtiss-Wright has disposed of assets and liabilities of its Engineered Packaging, erstwhile Hybricon, to custom engineering systems provider Atrenne Integrated Solutions, a wing of RFE Investment Partners. ...
Tags: Electrical products, Curtiss-Wright, household goods packaging
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA has identified standard storage period and carbon dioxide level in packaging to avoid histamine formation in pre-packaged fishery products. The agency has recommended a combination of storage ...
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Rigid plastic container manufacturer Plastipak Packaging, an arm of Plastipak Holdings, will pump in $9m for raising output capacity at its manufacturing unit in Pineville, Louisiana, in the US. The company, which makes rigid plastic ...
Australian cotton growers formed part of a Cotton Australia delegation that pitched the modern Australian cotton industry’s story of responsible and sustainable production directly to some of the world’s largest brands and ...
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Pork producer and processor Smithfield Romania has secured $60m in loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to expand its operations in the country. The loan amount will be spent on restructuring its debts and to expand its ...
Tags: Pork producer, Smithfield Romania