Waste campaigners in the UK are praising Starbucks' latest decision to offer a discount to customers who bring their own cup to the cafe. In Australia, it is estimated consumers use one billion disposable coffee cups each year, and ...
Apple's announcements about the Apple Watch were brief at today's event, but important nonetheless. Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer at Apple, today announced a price reduction for the Apple Watch. The company's flagship wearable ...
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NatureWorks and Metalvuoto have launched Ingeo Propylester, a new high barrier flexible film that can be used in food packaging. The new Ingeo-based flexible substrate can be used for longer shelf life foods that are packaged in flat, ...
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South China University of Technology has shown improved power and efficiency performance for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with 1.2% indium-content multiple-quantum-well (MQW) barriers [Zhiting Lin et al, J. ...
Researchers in the UK have claimed the first demonstration of laser diodes grown directly on silicon that perform up to 75°C and 120°C under continuous wave (cw) and pulsed operation, respectively [Siming Chen et al, Nature ...
Tags: Quantum dot lasers, GaAs, Silicon substrate, MBE
The customers from Qatar is the most loyal partner of Austria Empl. The coordination between the two parties has lasted for several decades. Now Empl is the first manufacturer which provides gas fire fighting truck for Qatar in Europe. ...
The Foam Company, one of the UK’s leading experts in foam products, has invested in a new top of the range wrapping machine for its mattresses. The company has purchased a Sala automatic wrapping machine which is now in operation at ...
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Smyth Companies, has acquired Pure Pack Technologies , which specializes in the conversion of flexible packaging materials. "Smyth's acquisition of Pure Pack Technologies immediately enhances our flexible packaging product offerings ...
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV has developed new ultra barrier films for the flexible encapsulation of organic electronics (OEs) Currently, the facility for coating films by atomic layer deposition ...
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) exceeded US$6.4 billion in revenues in the fourth quarter of 2015, an increase of 3.2% on year and a healthy increase of 5.1% on quarter. For full-year 2015, the market increased 1.9% over ...
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VerLASE Technologies LLC of Bridgewater, NJ, USA (a spin-off from technology development firm Versatilis LLC of Shelburne, VT, USA) says that the US Patent Office has issued US Patent No. 9,269,854, a fundamental patent covering the use of ...
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Researchers in Korea have been developing improved non-alloyed contacts for gallium arsenide (GaAs) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Seung-Hwan Kim et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
Temperature measurement during metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) growth of GaN-on-silicon (GaN/Si) devices is challenging, notes in-situ metrology system maker LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany. Theoretically, conventional infrared ...
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Researchers in Canada claim the highest reported optical-to-electric power conversion of more than 65% (Figure 1) for a 150W/cm2 (~1500 suns) tuned narrow spectrum input from high-powered laser diodes [S. Fafard et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
Korea University has been working to improve metal contacts on aluminium gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Dae-Hyun Kim et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol55, p032102, 2016]. In particular, the research team added ...
Tags: AlGalnP, Tantalum barrier, LED