Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan have used evanescent wave coupling to enhance the light output power of red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by a factor of 3.8 [Guo-Dong Hao ...
Tags: Red LEDs AlGaInP, LED, Electrical, Electronics
Asset management of ageing switchgear equipment continues to be a thorny issue for both utility companies and industry. For utilities, with Ofgem's updated 'RIIO-ED1' price control regime due in 2015, transmission and distribution network ...
Tags: ageing switchgear equipment, utility companies and industry
Ionova Technologies, Inc. reports that its zinc-ion-based ZIP-Cap asymmetric ultracapacitor is expected to provide a 25-fold reduction in build cost and a 5-fold increase in energy densityA figure of merit usually expressed in Joules per ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, electrical circuits
Indian polyester yarn makers witnessed a sharp drop in their bottom-line during second quarter ended September 2013, hit by rise in prices of raw materials such as Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) and Monoethylene Glycol (MEG), which the ...
Tags: polyester yarn, High Raw Material
Labelexpo Asia 2013 reached new visitor heights as it celebrated its tenth anniversary edition. Held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) during 3 – 6 December, the four day exhibition was attended by a huge number of ...
Tags: Labelexpo Asia, Visitor Numbers
Fang Ying’s December wish list of Louis Vuitton handbags and Chanel perfume is not only for Christmas. Fang, 33, a secretary working in Shanghai, writes one every month for friends and family traveling abroad. Fang is not alone. ...
Tags: handbags, perfume, Luxury Spending
CFOs are frustrated with "excessive IT costs" and limited insights into their business despite IT investments, acccording to joint research from Oxford Economics and consulting firm AlixPartners. The two organisations initially brought in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
UK bedding brand, The Fine Bedding Company, has launched a new website to boost online sales and help it achieve ambitious growth in 2014. The website, which has been designed and built by Manchester-based digital agency, Studio North, ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers have been studying the effect of using undoped vertical spacers in the source and drain contacts to reduce off-state leakage in indium arsenide (InAs)-channel ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Mosfets
International credit rating agency Moody's has said that the outlook for the European steel industry is stable and reflects the expectations for the fundamental business conditions in the industry over the next 12 to 18 months. Moody's ...
Tags: GDP Growth, Mineral
The Gymboree Corporation reported consolidated financial results for its quarter ended November 2, 2013. Net sales for the quarter were $309.8 million, a decrease of 0.5% compared to $311.5 million in net sales for the same quarter last ...
The BMW M3 Sedan and M4 Coupe have been unveiled, revealing a pair of all-new sports cars set to launch simultaneously and go on sale in Australia in mid 2014. The first-ever generation of the BMW M4 nameplate and the fifth of the M3, the ...
Tags: BMW, M3 Sedan, M4 Coupe, sports cars
Researchers at Meijo University and Nagoya University, Japan, have produced low-resistance n-type aluminium gallium nitride (n-AlGaN) [Toru Sugiyama et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p121002, 2013]. Using the n-AlGaN as part of an ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics
US-based Medtronic presented seven-year clinical and radiographic outcomes of artificial disc replacement with PRESTIGE cervical disc compared to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) at the Cervical Spine Research Society Annual ...
The textile industry has a full array of software technologies available to it. From front of store POS solutions to factory floor pack and scan solutions to delivery visibility offerings. But in order to be competitive in the future, it is ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Right Technology