The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Solar Energy Institute at the Technical University of Madrid (Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, IES-UPM) has developed a highly conductive, high-bandgap ...
Say goodbye to your phone battery and charger. A new structural material could transform a mobile device’s entire case into a hybrid super-capacitor/battery, making traditional batteries obsolete. Researchers from Vanderbilt ...
Tags: phone battery, charger
Gross steel production at Spanish plants was likely 1.2 million mt in April, a decrease of 9.3% year on year weighed down by the Easter holiday effect, Union de Empresas Siderurgicas, or UNESID, said in a note late Tuesday. The figure is ...
Tags: Steel Production, metal structures
The need for high-power, high-frequency transistors is increasing steadily, commensurate with the huge demand for wireless telecommunications, notes market research firm Yole Développement in its report ‘RF GaN Technology & ...
Researchers in Taiwan have produced zinc oxide/gallium nitride (ZnO/GaN) nano-rod light-emitting diodes [Ya-Ju Lee et al, APL Mater. vol2, p056101, 2014]. The researchers avoided complicated polymer processing by using a shadowing effect to ...
Tags: LED Fabrication, Zinc Oxide
Australian gin drinking is on the rise Gin has enjoyed a renaissance in Australia over the last five years, according to Australian market research organisation Roy Morgan Research. In 2009, 636,000 Aussie adults drank gin in any ...
Tags: Spirit of Gin, Australian Drinkers
Set features figures of every numbered Doctor, including the 12th Doctor, as they looked in their first appearances. Titan Merchandise has revealed the figures from its upcoming Doctor Who Regeneration Collection. This set features ...
Automotive supplier Continental has increased production of the transmission control units (TCU) at its Tianjin Plant in China. Launched in Changchun in 1998, TCU production expanded significantly in 2008 with the opening of a new plant ...
Tags: Continental, Auto Parts Production
Sentiment among printers, on the general state of trade, remained positive on balance during Q1, according to the latest BPIF Printing Outlook survey. The balance between those believing that the general state of trade improved (30%) rather ...
Tags: Office Supplies, Print demand
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded ...
In April this year, Italian crude steel output decreased by four percent year on year to 2.031 million metric tons, while in the first four months of the year the output figure amounted to 8.652 million mt, up 5.8 percent year on year, ...
Tags: Crude Steel, crude steel output
There are signs that hungry workers are trickling slowly back to work at two of South Africa's largest platinum mines on the eve of what threatens to be a tricky court case for the employers. The industry has lost more than $1.8 billion ...
Researchers in Germany have developed two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) gallium nitride (GaN) channel structures with record mobility [B Reuters et al, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol47, p175103, 2014]. Mobility for 2DHGs in GaN is usually ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
On May 16, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in early May (May 1-10) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China - all CISA members - totaled 1.824 ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Iron
Lenzing Group reports first quarter results for 2014. The first quarter of 2014 for the Lenzing Group was characterized by the steady erosion of selling prices for man-made cellulose fibers against the backdrop of the ongoing strong volume ...