Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
Tags: LED Light, LED lighting
The open-access paper The role of photonics in energy, authored by a team including Zakya Kafafi of Lehigh University, editor of the Journal of Photonics for Energy, traces the development of the science of light from the Arab scholar Ibn ...
Nissan Motor has recently announced the first "Intelligent Parking Chair", inspired by the concept of intelligent park assist technology allowing drivers to park their vehicles using automatic steering. The "Intelligent Parking Chair" is ...
The recently launched Audi A4 in Europe to have Hella designed Lighting Solutions. The new Audi A4 recently introduced in Europe is the ninth generation of Audi's popular mid-sized model. The A4's lighting system offers a blend of ...
Tags: Audi A4, LED technology
Flavored beverages producer Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS) is joining the Closed Loop Fund to increase beverage container recycling rate in the US to 60% by 2030. The company is investing $5m in the social impact fund, which was set up in 2014 ...
Tags: Beverage Container, Recycling Rate
Samuel Adams, a brand owned by Boston Beer Company, has launched the latest addition to the Rebel family of craft beer - Rebel Grapefruit IPA - in bottles and cans. The US brand released the IPA back in November for consumers to taste the ...
Tags: craft beer, Grapefruit juice
Armanino Foods of Distinction reported record sales and profits for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2015. Net sales in the fourth quarter were $9,044,580, an increase of 16% from the $7,793,293 posted in 2014's fourth ...
Tags: Armanino Foods, domestic markets
Japanese flavours developer Takasago International Corporation has acquired US-based Centre Ingredient Technology (CIT) to expand its natural materials portfolio. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. CIT is a ...
Tags: Takasago, biotechnology
MSM POLY announces that the leading Northern California polymer research laboratory, Bay Materials of Fremont California, has analyzed its Anobex brand acrylonitrile methyl acrylate copolymer (AMAC). "In our opinion, AMAC (acrylonitrile ...
Tags: Methyl Acrylate, copolymer
Study identifies harmful PAMP molecules in processed foods that may increase risk of diseases such as coronary artery disease and Type 2 diabetes. PAMPs can be found in processed foods such as sausages, burgers, ready meals, cheeses, ...
General Motors has started its own online used car service allowing buyers to shop factory pre-owned cars. Customers can shop used Buick, Chevrolet, GMC and Cadillac vehicles. General Motors is the first automotive company to launch its ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the USA has been developing a hybrid technique to create III-nitride tunnel junctions (TJs) using a combination of metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and molecular beam epitaxy ...
Tags: Gallium Nitride Tunnel, Hybrid
At the Strategies in Light show in Santa Clara, CA, USA (1–3 March), Dr Giles Humpston, applications engineer at Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd of Haverhill, Suffolk UK, will outline how Nanotherm's thermal management technology can help LED ...
Tags: Packaged LEDs, LED industry
ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA, which manufactures wet-chemical processing equipment (especially for emerging markets and other cost-conscious users of ≤200mm substrates), has announced the purchase of its 8-chamber Solstice ...
North Carolina State University (NCSU) has discovered a new phase of boron nitride (Q-BN) that has potential applications for both manufacturing tools and electronic displays. The researchers have also developed a new technique for creating ...
Tags: cubic boron nitride, Boron Nitride