The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has requested the Government to reduce the excise duty on all man-made fibres and filaments, as also their raw materials from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent. In a pre-Budget ...
Tags: man-made fibres, Apparel, Textile
Ohio State University and University of Illinois at Chicago have developed deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on III-nitride semiconductor nanowires [Thomas F Kent et al, Nanotechnology, vol25, p455201, 2014]. The ...
AUREA Technology of Besancon, France has launched its newly designed SPD_NIR_OEM_120MHz fast NIR single-photon-counting OEM module, which is claimed to be the most compact and fastest near-infrared [900-1700nm] single-photon-detection ...
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Led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr Professor of Engineering at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a photodetector that ...
TV supply chains estimate that TV shipments in 2015 will increase 10% on year to around 230 million driven by large-size TV demand in mature economies and small-size TV demand in emerging economies. Large-size Ultra HD TVs and other ...
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Researchers based in China have found “remarkably reduced efficiency droop” from staircase (SC) thin indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum barrier (QB) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Kun Zhou et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol105, ...
Tags: High Current, remarkably reduced efficiency droop, Electrical
Bi-fuel CNG conversion product maker AGA Systems has selected Quantum Fuel System’s Q-Lite CNG storage tanks to be used in its new bi-fuel CNG products. The product will be targeted towards trucks equipped with General Motors' 5.3L ...
Tags: bi-fuel CNG, Q-Lite CNG storage tanks, Auto
Researchers have demonstrated how noise in a microwave amplifier is limited by self-heating at very low temperatures (J Schleeh et al, ‘Phonon black-body radiation limit for heat dissipation in electronics’, Nature Materials, 10 ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp have reported indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with thicker active regions enabled by growing the crystal on the semi-polar (30-3-1) plane ...
Continental Tire the Americas LLC’s Continental TrueContact performance touring tire has won the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) New Products Showcase Award in the Tire and Related Product category. Runners-up were ...
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Researchers based in Singapore and Turkey have been developing a hole accelerator structure with a view to improving the performance of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Zi-Hui Zhang et al, Appl. ...
Tags: Nitride LEDs, InGaN
CAP-XX’s cash burn is decreasing and product sales are running at higher rate than a year ago, according to an update issued as the annual general meeting today. The company said it received the latest instalment of the Federal ...
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Britain's top sleep experts agree that enjoying an extra hour in bed on National Sleep Day (Sunday 26th October) will have a beneficial impact. With the clocks set to go back an hour this weekend, The Sleep Council asked leading experts ...
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Nanoco, a developer and manufacturer of cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials, has signed a follow-on joint development agreement with Osram for the use of Nanoco quantum dots in general lighting. Nanoco has been working with ...
Nanoco Group plc of Manchester, UK, which produces cadmium-free quantum dots and other nanomaterials for applications including lighting, LCD displays, solar cells and bio-imaging, has signed a follow-on joint development agreement with ...
Tags: Osram LEDs, Quantum, dot LEDs