Osaka University in Japan has developed a liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) process for the growth of gallium nitride (GaN) in a sodium (Na) flux with a small amount of carbon (C) that, with the addition of lithium (Li) and gallium, can also be ...
China-based Huawei and Xiaomi have entered the notebook market and Korea-based smartphone brand vendors Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are also releasing products for the market. Sources from the upstream supply chain have commented ...
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Lenard’s Chicken has kicked off its expansion plans, opening eight new redesigned stores across Australia. The stores are the first in a plan to open a further 10 by the end of the 2016 calendar year. Lenard’s says it is ...
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The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge in the UK have been comparing efficiency droop in low-temperature photoluminescence (PL) experiments on non-polar m-plane and polar c-plane indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum ...
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has launched what it claims is the fastest gallium nitride (GaN) ...
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Hyundai and the US Department of Energy (DOE) are extending their fuel cell vehicle confirmation program, originally from 2013 through 2015, to its second phase, from 2016 through 2017. The program involves Hyundai providing a number of ...
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At its annual Imec Technology Forum (ITF) USA on 11 July, a half-day conference at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis hotel held in conjunction with the SEMICON West trade show and supported by industry association Semiconductor Equipment ...
Tags: IMEC, GaN-on-Si, III-Vs-on-silicon
French dairy giant Danone has entered into an agreement to acquire WhiteWave Foods in an all-cash deal worth $12.5bn. The acquisition is expected to double the size of Danone's business in the US, while helping the company to move towards ...
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Mexican food company Grupo LALA has signed a strategic agreement with the Costa Rican firm Florida Bebidas for the production, distribution and sale of LALA products in Costa Rica. The partnership is expected to enable LALA to gain access ...
Burnsville-based Valley Natural Foods has announced that it would invest $2m to open a wholesale meat processing plant in Northfield, Minnesota. The company has purchased 16 acres of land, including a building, for the new plant, Valley ...
Rochling Group is investing €35m in its Neuhaus am Rennweg plant, creating 70 new jobs. This will enable a significant expansion in the production capacities of Rochling-HPT Hochwertige Pharmatechnik GmbH & Co. KG, giving a ...
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Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Rutgers University in the USA believe that charge polarization in III-nitride materials has not been adequately understood up to now [Cyrus E. Dreyer et al, Phys. Rev. X vol6, ...
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US-based Fluor has completed work on Stora Enso’s consumer board machine in Beihai Mill in Guangxi, China. As part of the deal signed earlier, Fluor provided procurement and construction management services for the board machine and ...
Honda Motor has issued the “Honda SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2016” which summarises the company's approach to sustainability as well as initiatives Honda has undertaken based on key challenges identified in non-financial areas. ...
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Maxion Wheels has opened a new light vehicle aluminum wheel plant in Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The new plant, adjacent to the company's existing steel wheel plant, will add two million aluminum wheels per year in capacity and create an ...
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