Slowdown-scarred, growth-seeking Chinese television manufacturers are shifting their focus to intelligent TVs and overseas markets. Five key reasons characterize the trend: falling sales, the rise of smartphones and personal computers as ...
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Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co Ltd of Ritto City, Shiga, Japan (founded in October 2015), a group company of Tokyo-based machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI), has agreed with D-process Inc of Yamato, Kanagawa, ...
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A team of researchers at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates has developed a new solar photovoltaic 'step cell' that combines two ...
The Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has teamed up with Italian design brand Alessi to create a colourful and quirky collection of tableware and kitchen products. The ‘Alessi Circus’ collection consists of 29 products including ...
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 ...
PhoeniX Software B.V. of Enschede, The Netherlands - a vendor of photonic design automation (PDA) software used to synthesize integrated photonic circuits - has become a member of the consortium AIM Photonics (American Institute for ...
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As a key role in manufacturing, CNC machine tools have been emphasized by developed countries. China's CNC machine tools occupied about 30% in 2015, which indicates a big gap with developed countries such as Japan, the United States, and ...
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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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The firm surpassed its aim of an increase of 10 per cent. LEGO has bettered its estimated energy efficiency target for 2013 to 2016. The firm aimed for a 10 per cent increase of energy efficiency from 2013 to 2016 through its commitment ...
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Furniture Industry Research Association (FIRA) is delighted to announce that the following products have been awarded with FIRA’s prestigious Ergonomics Excellence Award, having met the stringent assessment criteria: The Go Flex ...
BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia – which was spun off from the III-nitride department of Macquarie University in 2005 to develop a low-temperature process using remote plasma chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) to grow materials ...
Global supply chain risk Q2 2016. Global supply chain risk climbed in the second quarter of 2016, reaching the highest levels since records began in 1995, according to the CIPS Risk Index, powered by Dun & Bradstreet. The Index, ...
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