As a bellwether for the U.S. jewelry market and global diamond industry, this year's Las Vegas shows met the trade's conservative expectations. While foot traffic and diamond trading were slightly slower than previous years, jewelry sales ...
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Taiwanese machine-tool builders generally enjoy robust revenue in May thanks to market recovery (photo courtesy of UDN.com).Mainly fueled by strong orders from downstream manufacturers in such sectors as automobiles, smartphones and ...
For first-quarter 2016, Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has reported revenue of $4.3m, down on $8.9m a year ago ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has launched the 20,784 lumen CPY-20L LED canopy luminaire. Delivering luminous efficiency of 143 LPW (lumens per Watt) at 5700K, the newest Cree CPY Series LED product ...
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Researchers in Hong Kong and China have claimed the first demonstration of gallium nitirde (GaN) fully vertical p-type-intrinsic-n-type (p-i-n) junction diodes on silicon (Si) [Xinbo Zou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
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Australian technology and design firm Glowpear has launched an Indiegogo campaign to introduce their latest product, Glowpear Mini: a smart, self-watering planter makes it easy, rewarding and fun to grow fresh, organic produce from the ...
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Unlike standard centrifugal pumps, Weir Minerals says the Warman® WRR® pump uses a vortex to move slurry through the unit, created by an impeller which sits outside of the main flow path. This provides an unobstructed passage ...
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VI Systems GmbH of Berlin, Germany (a fabless spin-off of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia) has demonstrated a record transmission distance of 2.2km of multimode OM4 ...
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Researchers in Hong Kong and USA have developed indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) microdisk lasers directly integrated on silicon (Si) with performance comparable to the best reported for similar devices on gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
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Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA – which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets – says that it has received a favorable ruling ...
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Following greatly increased use in the optical communications industry over the past 15 years, the global market for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) will grow at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.9% from ...
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DENSO International America Inc of Southfield, MI, USA (a subsidiary of Japan-based automotive technology, system and component supplier DENSO Corp) has invested in TriLumina Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufactures and integrates ...
Troika Systems, the developer of quality control management systems for the print industry, will unveil two new technologies at Drupa 2016. At Drupa, Troika will launch CorruCAM, a tool that is able to measure aniloxes within corrugated ...
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HRL Laboratories LLC in the USA has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) vertical tunneling Schottky barrier diode (TBS) that gives good combined on and off performance, compared with vertical Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Y. Cao et al, ...
International Automotive Components launched its FiberFrame, natural fiber sun roof frame on 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class. It is a proprietary innovation made from renewable raw material content and provides 50% in saving in weight compared ...