Most Americans today still picture Shenzhen as the home of iPhone production, migrant workers, and a huge electronics component bazaar. Well, they’re not wrong. That Shenzhen is still here. However, the way people live, work, and ...
Tags: iPhone production, Huawei, 3D printers
Researchers in France have reported on solar cell devices based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) [Sirona Valdueza-Felip et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p032301, 2014]. Conversion efficiencies of up to 2% ...
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is developing techniques to monolithically integrate high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on aluminium indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) ...
Tags: Nitride Semiconductor, LEDs, LED regions
Fonterra today announced the launch of the China-New Zealand Dairy Exchange Centre in Beijing. The Centre is a joint initiative between Fonterra and China's National Dairy Industry and Technology System to support the sustainable ...
Tags: Dairy Industry, Agriculture, Food
Researchers from Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have successfully simulated near real-scale flow structures (turbulence) around a tire rolling on a road surface -- and the acoustic waves (noise) ...
Tags: Tire Noise, Yokohama, Rubber
The technical textiles sector in Brazil will benefit from Portuguese technology as associations from both the countries have signed a major partnership agreement for the transfer of technical textile technology from Portugal to Brazil, with ...
Tags: Technical Textiles, clothing sector, Portuguese Technology
Concrete is ubiquitous in our world today. According to the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), concrete is second only to water as the most-consumed material on earth, and twice as much concrete is used in construction worldwide than ...
Honey, that delectable condiment for breads and fruits, could be one sweet solution to the serious, ever-growing problem of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, researchers said here today. Medical professionals sometimes use honey ...
Tags: bacterial resistance, Health, Medicine, Honey
Imagine powering your cell phone by simply walking around your office or rubbing it with the palm of your hand. Rather than plugging it into the wall, you become the power source. Researchers at the 247th National Meeting & Exposition of ...
A study led by the University of Leeds has shown that global warming of only 2°C will be detrimental to crops in temperate and tropical regions, with reduced yields from the 2030s onwards. Professor Andy Challinor, from the School of ...
Tags: Crop, Agriculture, Food
The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors currently on the market, the ...
Tags: contact lens, light detector, Electronics
A sweetener created from the plant used to make tequila could lower blood glucose levels for the 26 million Americans and others worldwide who have type 2 diabetes and help them and the obese lose weight, researchers said here today. The ...
Tags: lower blood glucose, Health, Medicine, tequila
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) nearly doubled in 2013, but most won't take you farther than 100 miles on one charge. To boost their range toward a tantalizing 300 miles or more, researchers are reporting new progress on a "breathing" ...
Tags: battery, air batteries, lithium-ion battery
A meta-analysis involving 80,000 patients found statins -- cholesterol-lowering drugs -- have few symptomatic side effects, researchers in Britain said. Dr. Judith Finegold of the National Heart and Lung Institute in London said an ...
Facebook moods are similar to face-to-face moods, positive posts beget positive posts and negative posts beget negative ones, U.S. researchers say. Lead author James Fowler, a professor at the School of Medicine at the University of ...