The Holden VF Commodore demanded a culture change within the company’s local engineering department. According to vehicle systems manager Andrew Holmes, for the first time ever weight-saving became obsessive and every engineer ...
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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a dimmable LED street light that consumes significantly less energy than current lighting systems, while improving the lighting characteristics. The street lights were tested in ...
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LED light bulb penetration rate in Japan is likely to reach 60% in 2013. LED light bulb commercialization grew rapidly in Japan, but because the lifespan of products is around 40,000 hours, market growth has begun to stagnate. However, ...
Hiden Analytical Ltd of Warrington, UK has expanded its secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) primary system options to offer the choice of three initial equipment levels. SIMS is a versatile, highly-sensitive technique for surface ...
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A transnational team of researchers has reported the first electrically pumped exciton-polariton laser device using an arsenide semiconductor microcavity [Christian Schneider et al, Nature, vol. 497, p348, 2013]. The team was variously ...
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A contentious controversy surrounds the high intensity of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LEDs, with experts split on whether or not indium-rich clusters within the material provide their remarkable efficiency. Now, researchers from the ...
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Kim Kisslinger, seen here with a focused-ion beam instrument, reduced the InGaN samples to a thickness of just 20 nanometers to prepare them for electron microscopy. From the high-resolution glow of flat screen televisions to light bulbs ...
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Osram is to develop glare-free adaptive headlights, where modulating multiple LED die within a headlight allows the shape of its beam to be varied in response to data from forward-facing cameras in the vehicle. Low-beams that adapt with ...
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Leading UK manufacturer achieves 75% reduction in floodlight power consumption Marshalls plc, the UK’s leading hard landscaping transformation company, has fitted Marl International Bay Range LED floodlighting to stockyards at five ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its AWL9281 and AWL9581 WiFi front-end integrated circuits (FEICs) have been selected for use with the industry’s ...
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In and around China's southwestern Sichuan Province, it is usual to see some folk artists producing sugar paintings with liquid sugar along the streets, in the parks, and around the schools. The artists normally sit before a ...
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LIKE several Japanese technology firms, Toshiba has its back to the wall. The vagaries of the yen, decline in demand for TVs and computers and Japan's earthquake and Tsunami in 2011 left manufacturers wounded. Case in point is Toshiba ...
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German carmaker BMW has unveiled the revamped 2014 5 Series models, including a Sedan, Touring and Gran Turismo, in addition to an ActiveHybrid 5. The revamped Sedan and Touring variants will now be offered in a base diesel variant known ...
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In today's world it is considered as nothing is impossible, we have reached space, under water, volcano, etc. There was something which was done in olden days and we considered it as impossible that is in Rome, Egypt and all such places ...
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It’s reported that Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp (NSSMC) announced to leave its domestic H-beam prices flat for May contract. It’s known that NSSMC hiked its H-beam spot prices by ¥8,000/ton since January but ...
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