PV market demand plunged rapidly as expected as it entered in the third quarter, driving significant price decline across the PV supply chain. Prices of solar cells and wafer have reached new low for consecutive weeks. Consequently, ...
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For decades, researchers have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power — resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless ...
South Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd is now mass producing its new 'WICOP' products, with a luminous efficiency of 210lm/W (350mA). Composed of just an LED chip and phosphor, it does not require chip packaging (e.g. frames ...
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The global radio frequency (RF) IC market will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 12% from 2016 to 2020, forecasts a report by Technavio. Asia-Pacific (APAC) is expected to be the main demand-generating region and ...
Green Eco Pro’s brand new oil skimmer of its Ultra family features outstanding performance. Green Eco Pro Co., Ltd., a specialist of waste oil-water separation and supplier of such products as oil skimmers, filters and ...
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The Swiss-Swedish power and automation company, ABB, will showcase a range of products and services at WEFTEC to help reduce energy consumption and maintenance costs. WEFTEC will take place in New Orleans from 24 – 28 September and ...
Weir Gabbioneta has invested more than €30 million in a new 18 000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Milan, Italy. The new plant, which includes larger testing capability for more powerful pumps, will allow Weir Gabbioneta to expand ...
TDK Corporation and Toshiba Corporation have agreed to establish a joint venture, TDK Automotive Technologies Corporation, to develop and manufacture automotive inverters for hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles. I. ...
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Born Licensing's David Born looks at why more and more firms are turning to iconic toys and games, like G.I. Joe and Operation, to help drive advertising campaigns. It’s not uncommon to see toys and games in advertising. In fact, ...
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Due to increasing use of display panels in cars, global shipments of automotive display panels will increase from 157 million panels in 2015 to 207 million units in 2019, equivalent to a CAGR of 7.2%, according to Digitimes Research. ...
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Members of The Furniture Makers’ Company are gearing up for a 450-mile bike ride to the French wine capital in September to raise money for the industry’s charity. Twenty-two people have signed up for the London to Bordeaux ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has developed a 220W-output gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistor (GaN-HEMT) with what is claimed to be world-leading drain efficiency of 74% (in load-pull measurements) for 2.6GHz-band base ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – says that it has expanded its intellectual property (IP) portfolio to ...
Epistar Corp of Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan (the world's largest manufacturer of LED epiwafers and chips) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Adamax Inc (trading as Newhouse Lighting) in the US District Court ...
Wexten is a specialist manufacturer of oil coolers Inspired by the trend for smart production in global industry, Wexten Precise Industries Co., Ltd., a specialized developer and maker of air conditioners and coolers for industrial ...