In 2012, Raffaella De Vita received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award to lead a national study on pelvic floor disorders, affecting some one third of adult American women. Today, De Vita, associate ...
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Researchers have used one of the brightest X-ray sources on the planet to map the 3-D structure of an important cellular gatekeeper known as a G protein-coupled receptor, or GPCR, in a more natural state than possible before. The new ...
The growing oil sand industry in Alberta necessitates a better understanding of the fate and transport of oil sand process-affected water (OSPW) seepage from these facilities. This study characterises the potential for major ion and trace ...
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The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC has developed a method to grow epitaxial nitride semiconductors on graphene [Neeraj Nepal et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p061003, 2013]. The researchers hope that this could lead to ...
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Light-emitting diodes, better known as LEDs, offer substantial energy savings over incandescent and fluorescent lights and are easily produced in single colors such as red or green commonly used in traffic lights or children's toys. ...
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AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new facility at the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy. The CCS ...
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Long-term collaboration for growth of 6-inch GaN-on-Si wafers planned AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new ...
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Owens-Illinois Inc. (NYSE: OI) announces that it has signed a three-year agreement with the University of Toledo College of Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department, to support research at O-I´s new R&D Innovation ...
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Glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois (O-I) has signed a three-year agreement with the University of Toledo (UT) College of Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department, in a bid to support research at its new R&D ...
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The new 5th generation MiniFlex is a general purpose X-ray diffractometer that can perform qualitative and quantitative analysis of polycrystalline materials. MiniFlex is now available in two variations. Operating at 600 watts (X-ray tube), ...
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Agilent Technologies Inc. has opened a new X-ray diffraction manufacturing facility in Wrocław, Poland giving the company significantly greater manufacturing capacity and enhanced R&D capabilities compared with the company’s old ...
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In initial tests, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered that Martian soil is an awfully lot like Hawaiian sand. The super rover, which has been working on Mars since this past August, ran its first soil samples over the past few ...
Seoul National University and Ritsumeikan University in Korea have developed a new technique for growing higher-quality gallium nitride (GaN) layers at temperatures as low as 500°C [In-Su Shin et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol5, p125503, ...
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LED industry chain can be divided into five parts. First, the raw materials. Second, LED upstream industries, including epitaxial materials and chip manufacturing. Third, LED midstream industry, including a variety of LED accessories and ...
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Researchers based in France and Germany have developed techniques for growing indium arsenide (InAs) channel structures on silicon [L. Desplanque et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol101, p142111, 2012]. Room-temperature mobility for the epitaxial ...
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