The market share of LEDs in street lighting worldwide will grow from 53.3% in 2014 to 93.8% in 2023, as falling prices for LED street lights are spurring a global transition from older lamp technologies to newer, more efficient, and more ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Street Lighting, LED
Turkey's Bilkent University has used hollow-cathode plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition (HCPA-ALD) to make gallium nitride (GaN) thin-film transistors (TFTs) at temperatures below 250°C [S. Bolat et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
Tags: HCPA-ALD GaN Thin-film transistors, Electrical, Electronics, Transistors
The Tire Industry Association (TIA) will present a free webinar on how to improve tire sales based on an analysis of millions of telephone calls. "Tire Industry: 46% of Your Callers Buy From Someone Else AFTER They Call You…and Other ...
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This year's Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco will see match2blue GmbH present for the first time its innovative ambiotex t-shirt. The shirt, which was developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated ...
Tags: Wearable Technologies, Shirt, T-Shirt
Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has formed a strategic partnership with Rudolph Technologies Inc of Flanders, NJ, USA, which provides defect inspection, process control metrology, and data analysis systems and software. The ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Match2blue GmbH will present its Ambiotex t-shirt for the first time at this year's Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco. The shirt, which was developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits ...
Tags: Biometric Shirt, Shirt
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) announced on June 17 the withdrawal of FIT certifications for 144 solar plant facilities with capacities totaling 290MW. While there are 288 approved PV projects totaled at 1950MW ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA has announced several innovations for the 2014 release of its suite of device modeling and characterization software tools. The suite comprises the Integrated Circuits Characterization and ...
Tags: GaN HEMTs, 3D Finfets
Back in 2010, the European Union's Ad-Hoc Working Group on Defining Critical Raw Materials published its first criticality analysis for raw materials. Its goal was fairly simple: to define the raw materials critical to the EU’s ...
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New ABS Retail Trade figures show that Australian retail turnover fell 0.5 per cent in May 2014, seasonally adjusted, following a fall of 0.1 per cent in April 2014. The largest contributor to the fall was clothing, footwear and personal ...
Tags: Retail economy
Fitment Group has launched a new product, Demand Plus, that provides tire retailers and distributors with a turnkey demand planning and competitor pricing solution. Building on the success of its fully integrated demand planning and ...
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New research published today by the British Retail Consortium finds that 80% of MPs believe the current system of business rates is 'not fit for purpose and in need of fundamental reform'. The poll, which also finds that 93% agree that ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Financed by the Cancer Research UK charity, University College London was able to successfully complete a landmark 5-year, cross sectional survey that confirmed electronic cigarette efficiency over conventional Nicotine Replacement Therapy ...
Semiconductor manufacturer Scaleo chip has introduced new family of powertrain microcontrollers, the OLEA to control the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. OLEA, the new family of powertrain microcontrollers embedding two unique ...
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Color preferences are changing in the American kitchen, according to a new release of the on-going The American Living Survey (TALS). While neutral whites and beiges continue to be dominant, yellow is growing fastest as a primary kitchen ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Kitchen