For second-quarter 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $136.6m, down 4% on $142.4m last quarter but up 21% on $112.6m a year ago. 5N Plus provides ...
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China Multi-layer Ceramic Capacitor (MLCCMultiple-layer capacitors interleave dielectric and electrode layers. This type of capacitor has increased current handling capacity, higher Q, and lower internal series resistance than conventional ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have applied a non-vacuum process to deposit aluminium oxide (Al2O3) passivation for nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Bo-Yi Chou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 11 ...
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The specialty chemicals Group ALTANA was able to achieve a significant increase in its sales and earnings in the first half of 2014. Sales in the first six months of the current fiscal year grew by 11 percent to €985 million ...
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Orders for industry increased in June and showed a positive development of 2.2 percent compared to May in seasonally adjusted figures. When comparing June of this year to June of 2013 orders decreased by 0.5 percent in calendar adjusted ...
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Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA have set the stage for a watershed in mobile energy storage by using a special grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of ...
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Os-con?series aluminium solid capacitors are said to benefit from a high conductive polymer electrolyte material and excellent noise reduction capabilities and frequencyThe number of complete cycles or vibrations per unit of time. Rate of ...
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Morgan Advanced Materials has announced new solutions in sacrificial wear layers to extend the life of alumina or beryllia electrostatic chucks (ESCs) for semiconductor, solar and LED applications. Applied as a final protective layer, the ...
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M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched a gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) ...
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Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have combined two semiconductor materials, each consisting of a layer just three atomic thick, to create a new structure that holds promise for a new kind of solar ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for wireless connectivity and cellular mobility, is unveiling a family of Nano RF products code named Nucleus. The ...
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For the second-quarter 2014, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $95.1m, up 5% on $90.8m last quarter but down 2.5% on $97.4m a year ago. Data Storage ...
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Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) has created a monolithic operational amplifier circuit using 4H polytype silicon carbide (SiC) bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) [Raheleh Hedayati et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol35, ...
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Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China has selected epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA as its primary equipment provider as it enters the market to produce gallium nitride (GaN)-based ...
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Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has received the National Technology and Innovation (PNTi) award from Mexico in two categories: Technology Management and Process Innovation. The PNTi is one of four ...
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