North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.07 billion in orders worldwide in February 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.10, according to the February Book-to-Bill Report published ...
Tags: Semiconductor Equipment Industry, Semiconductor, Electrical, Electronics
Day-ahead gas prices on Continental Europe's trading hubs were mixed Thursday morning, as the Dutch TTF climbed from Wednesday's assessment, while spot prices on the German markets fell back by over half a euro. At midday UK time, the ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Berlin-based duo B?ttcher+Henssler experimented with creating an elongated shell of two bent sheet metal layers for a thin LED strip – and so Clark was born. Light is reflected by a smooth, white surface and shines on the wall ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, led
A major challenge of in-situ metrology on single-port reactors with small viewport geometries is the combination of curvature measurements (by blue laser) with reflectance measurement at a wavelength of 405nm, says LayTec AG of Berlin, ...
Tags: LayTec, blue laser, reflectance measurement
Gas prices on Continental Europe's trading hubs were seen higher on the prompt Monday morning, with temperatures in Germany and the Benelux region set to remain below seasonal averages in the coming week, keeping demand high, while curve ...
Tags: Gas prices, Gas, oil
Dynamic changes to R&D processes, tools, technical challenges, and funding/business models will be highlighted at SEMICON West 2013, along with product displays of the latest semiconductor manufacturing technology, components and ...
If you're not sure about the purpose behind Daiyuu Nobori's online thesis project, perhaps the large picture of the collapse of the Berlin Wall will help. Nobori created VPN Gate to help individuals in countries that restrict Internet use ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The 11.8m Euro pan-European project NEWLED (‘Nanostructured Efficient White LEDs based on short-period superlattices and quantum dots’) is aiming to develop a new generation of 50-60% energy-efficient white light-emitting LED ...
Tags: LED lighting, LEDlighting
A new permanent audio system structured around the Meyer Sound Mina line array loudspeaker is destined to bring even greater versatility to City Casino Basel. Part of Switzerland's cultural landscape since 1824, City Casino Basel occupies ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, loudspeaker
Trade fair Wasser Berlin International from 23 to 26 April 2013 – around 600 exhibitors from nearly every branch of the water industry will be showcasing their products, services and solutions – some 30,000 trade visitors are ...
Tags: Wasser Berlin International, Water Industry Meets, Berlin
Three global partners with an interest in smart grids—International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) and VDE (a European technical and scientific association)—have joined forces to ...
Tags: smart grids, International Electrotechnical Commission
At the construction site which will eventually become Berlin's new international airport, there are no dark corners as the lights of the terminal building burn 24/7, due to an inability to turn off the lights. The project has been plagued ...
Tags: lights, lighting system, lighting
Russia / Germany - It all began with a documentary on the TV arts channel 'arte' about the world's coldest inhabited place, Oymyakon in the far east of Russia. The programme also mentioned 'ice whispering', a phenomenon that occurs when ...
Tags: TV arts, sound, sound recordings
UK retailer Primark announces full year 2012 results -Revenue £3,503m (2011, £3,043m) -Adjusted operating profit £356m (2011, £309m) -Adjusted operating profit margin 10.2% (2011, 10.2%) -Return on average ...
Tags: Primark, 2012 Sales, 2012 results
The fanfare entrance into the market of smartphones is hardly breaking news, but eyebrow-raising figures show how Germany is next up for the app-fed mobile data revolution. After a 7.8 percent fall in mobile phone sales overall in 2011, ...