Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...
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UK-based Aston Martin has unveiled its super GT Vanquish S Ultimate with plans to launch the vehicle in very limited numbers. Like the regular Vanquish S, the Ultimate edition is powered by Aston Martin’s legendary ...
Optomec said its printers were highlighted at the Grand Opening of the University 3D Printing Research (U3DP) facility at Hong Kong Polytechnic. Hong Kong Polytechnic currently owns an Optomec Aerosol Jet system for 3D printed electronics ...
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Jiangsu Shagang Group, the largest ferrous scrap user in China, on Saturday cut its buying price of heavy melting scrap 6 millimeters and above thick of Yuan 30 to Yuan 1,770/mt, including 17% value-added tax, delivered to Zhangjiagang, ...
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A team of researchers at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates has developed a new solar photovoltaic 'step cell' that combines two ...
Cortech has introduced new CorShield VpCI-146 reinforced paper, which can be used as a protective packaging for sharp or oddly shaped metals. The firm’s Vapor phase Corrosion Inhibiting (VpCI) paper is also a better packaging option ...
With a history of more than half a century, fastener production is today one of Taiwan's most globally competitive industries in the southern region. This achievement is attributable to insiders' efforts on moving forwards high value-added ...
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In a ceremony in Nagoya, Japan on 8 August, Gerald Stringfellow, who is a Distinguished Professor in the University of Utah's departments of materials science & engineering and electrical & computer engineering (and dean of the College of ...
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Ford 2017 F-150 will be offered to customers with all-new 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine and 10-speed transmission. The new second-generation 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine will provide 30 lb.-ft. more peak torque compared with the first-generation ...
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In 2014, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of the gallium-nitride-based blue-light LED and its use for new, efficient LED-based white lamps. The development efforts in this field, however, do not stop there. The ...
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The global aluminium aerosol cans market saw 5.4 billion aluminium cans produced in 2015, repeating the previous year’s record result. The International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers' secretary general ...
The universities of Virginia and of Texas in the USA have been developing avalanche photodiodes (APDs) based on aluminium indium arsenide antimonide (AlInAsSb) alloys. Two papers from the group detail the implementation of a staircase ...
Optomec will feature its LENS 3D Printers for metal additive manufacturing applications at the Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) Conference in Orlando, Florida, US. Jim Cann, LENS Business Development Manager for Optomec, will give a ...
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ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA, which manufactures wet-chemical processing equipment (especially for emerging markets and other cost-conscious users of ≤200mm substrates), has announced the purchase of its 8-chamber Solstice ...
Researchers led by a team at UNSW Australia have used the Australian Synchrotron to turn the discovery of an ultra-low density and corrosion-resistant magnesium alloy into the first step toward mass-producing ‘stainless ...
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