Which product ranges are selling well for manufacturers and why are specifiers buying them? Francis Pearce speaks with a selection of lighting manufacturers to get an idea of what's really going on in the lighting industry "Electric ...
With legs that echo the seat and back rest, Ehud Eldan's Bob chair expresses symmetry both visually and structurally. The chair is made of laminated wood with four identical molded plywood pieces, each piece cut to a different form and ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Chair
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis slipped for a second consecutive week, dampened by persistently weak physical buying interest during the current summer lull, market ...
Tags: Metal, Copper, Metallurgy
The Ukrainian association of metal producers Metallurgprom has announced that in the first half of this year exports of rolled steel by Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises declined by two percent year on year to 11.550 million mt, including ...
Tags: Rolled Steel Export, Mineral
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used photo-electro-chemical etch (PEC) to create 405nm-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [C. ...
In July this year, Ukrainian metallurgical company Dneprospetsstal (DSS) saw a 1.09 percent month-on-month increase in its crude steel production to 46,100 mt. The company's output of finished steel in the same period increased by 7.1 ...
For second-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €46.2m, rebounding by 5% from €43.9m last quarter (which had been down 14% on the previous quarter) and up 2% on €45.3m ...
Tags: Aixtron, MOCVD, Electronics
France's manufacturing output in June this year increased by 1.6 percent month on month, after a 2.3 percent fall in May, and decreased by 0.9 percent year on year, according to the statistics released by France's National Institute of ...
Google and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) have launched the Little Box Challenge, an open competition with a $1m prize to create a much smaller but higher-power-density ...
Tags: inverters, GaN SiC, Power Inverter
It’s late August, and joining Goodwood and the Notting Hill Carnival is the newest seasonal event on the calendar: speculation about new iPhones. One particular nugget lighting up fans’ eyes – and burning a hole in their ...
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Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Electric Corp has launched a transfer-molded super-mini dual in-line package power factor correction (DIPPFC) module incorporating silicon carbide (SiC) transistors and diodes that is expected to help reduce the power ...
Wet-chemical equipment maker ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA has launched its Solstice line of electroplating tools, designed specifically for the smaller-substrate users in emerging technologies such as MEMS, LEDs, power devices, ...
IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has formed a strategic partnership with Agnitron Technology Inc of Eden Prairie, MN, a focused compound semiconductor R&D company specializing in ...
Tags: MOCVD, process equipment, Electronics
Agnitron Technology Inc of Eden Prairie, MN, USA is scheduled to ship its latest 1500°C+ reactor upgrade for the Veeco metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) D-series Legacy System platform. The single 2”- or ...
Tags: Veeco MOCVD, Reactor