Aussie apparel and footwear marketer, Pacific Brands said it has entered into three unconditional agreements to sell its Brand Collective business in the footwear, apparel and sport categories. “Gross proceeds from the transactions ...
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Men and women are working side by side and are moving China towards the future. From the outside this all looks very equal and harmonious. But do men and women really make no difference between male or female colleagues, employees or ...
Tags: China's Female, Economy Motor
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp have reported indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with thicker active regions enabled by growing the crystal on the semi-polar (30-3-1) plane ...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless producer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, is exhibiting at the Electronica 2014 trade fair in Munich, Germany ...
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Fiat is planning to fund $61bn over the next five years to turn Maserati and Alfa Romeo into global brands and spin off its luxury sports car maker Ferrari and list the shares. The company is considering to issue $2.5bn convertible bonds ...
Tags: treasury shares, Italian heritage, Auto
Chinese steelmaker Shandong Iron and Steel Group (Shandong Steel) has announced that on November 14 it plans to issue short-term bonds worth RMB 3 billion ($0.49 billion) for a term of 365 days, in its fifth short-term bond issue in the ...
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Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NAIST) has claimed the highest breakdown voltage to date for a diamond metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MESFET) [Hitoshi Umezawa et al, IEEE ...
On October 22, Kunming, Yunnan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Kunming Iron & Steel Holding Co. (Kunming Steel) announced that it will issue its first ultra short-term bonds for the current year on October 23, worth a total of RMB 500 ...
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Henan Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anyang Iron and Steel Co. (Anyang Steel) has announced that on October 16 it will issue short-term bonds worth a total of RMB 1 billion ($0.16 billion) for a term of 365 days. This will be the steel ...
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Currently, most flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices are fabricated using organic materials. However, for these devices inorganic compound semiconductors such as gallium nitride (GaN) can provide advantages over organic materials ...
Tags: LEDs, LED displays, Electrical, Electronics
An interdisciplinary team at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has received the Japan Society of Applied Physics’ 2014 Outstanding Paper Award. The award is only given to a select group of papers that present excellent ...
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Shanxi Province-based Chinese stainless steel producer Taigang Stainless Steel Co., a subsidiary of Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Group) Co. (TISCO), has announced that it plans to issue ultrashort-term bonds worth RMB 2.0 billion ($325 million) ...
In booth 419 at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2014) in Pittsburgh, PA, USA (14–18 September), GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching ...
In its interim results for the first six months ending July 31, 2014, UK-based fashion retailer NEXT said it had a good first half, achieving sales and profits ahead of its original expectations. Led primarily by retail stores sales ...
Tags: Apparel, Fashion Apparel
Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been exploring the potential of using 'van der Waals epitaxy' (vdWE) to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon [Yazeed Alaskar et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., published online 26 August 2014]. The team ...