Researchers based in USA and South Korea have developed a gate stack for III-V quantum well metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (QW MOSFETs) based on a bilayer dielectric of beryllium oxide (BeO) and hafnium dioxide (HfO2) ...
Tags: InGaAs MOSFETs QW MOSFETs InGaAs ALD, Electrical, Electronics
The Darth Vader figure is made from over 250,000 bricks and stands at four meters high. A LEGO Master Builder was feeling the Force this month, as he broke the world record for the largest Darth Vader and Yoda figures ever created from ...
Greenville-based AVX Corp. said net income for its fiscal year ended March 31 increased 24% to $127 million, up from $102.1 million the prior year. The prior-year figure excludes a $266 million chargeThe amount of electricity present upon ...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has demonstrated gallium nitride (GaN) vertical Schottky and p-n diodes on silicon Si substrates “for the first time” [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
Tags: GaN, MOCVD, Gallium Nitride Diodes
Farmers got 10% of the nation's corn crop planted in the last week. That's not bad considering the cool, damp conditions up to this week, but it's still well off the normal pace, according to Monday's weekly USDA-NASS Crop Progress report. ...
Tags: corn crop, Corn Planting
Iraq exported 2.509 million b/d of crude in April, all from its southern oil terminals as the country's northern export pipeline remained inoperable. April exports were 112,000 b/d more than the 2.397 b/d exported from the country in ...
Tags: Crude, oil terminals
Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has claimed the highest optical 3dB modulation bandwidth of ~463MHz at 50mA for a 500nm-wavelength blue-green indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
Tags: blue-green LEDs, taiwan, LED, LED light, Electrical, Electronics
For first-quarter 2014, deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany has reported revenue of €43.9m, down 14% on €51.1m last quarter but up 9% on €40.2m a year ago. Of total revenue, 73% (€32.1m) came from ...
Tags: Aixtron MOCVD, LED, Electrical, Electronics, deposition equipment
Krones, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, achieved its targets for key financial performance indicators and continued to grow profitably in 2013. Revenue rose 5.7% year-on-year, from ...
Chicago Board of Trade May soybean oil futures were down 46 points to 41.42 cents/lb Thursday as weekly data from the US Department of Agriculture showed a significant decline in net export sales. For the reporting week ended April 24, ...
Tags: Soybean Oil, Soybean Oil Futures, net export
The production of textile and clothing in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan decreased by 33.6 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2014, reports avesta news agency quoting data from the Ministry of Industry and New ...
The US Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced Thursday that construction spending during March 2014 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $942.5 billion, 0.2 percent (±1.3 percent) above the revised ...
The US toy firm has revealed a 5.7 per cent growth in net sales, culminating in $82.5 million in sales. Jakks Pacific has seen a "gratifying" start to the year, with net sales increasing 5.7 per cent to $82.5 million. The firm has seen ...
Tags: Toys
On April 28, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in mid-April (Apr. 11-20) this year the average aggregate daily crude steel output of large and medium-sized steel enterprises in China totaled 1.749 million mt, up 0.1 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, Crude Steel, Iron
Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics