Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK's University of Cambridge has ordered its Propel Power gallium nitride (GaN) metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: GaN-on-Si, Power Electronics, LEDs
The UK lawmakers are urging the National Health Service (NHS) to ban fast-food outlets from hospitals in an effort to curb obesity in British citizens. In a report titled 'The Impact of Physical Activity and Diet on Health,' the Health ...
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has launched the most wide-ranging review of national business rates in a generation – paving the way for changes to how businesses across England pay the tax. The review, set to ...
Tags: The Chief Secretary, Review, Furniture
Zhejiang University in China and University of Cambridge in the UK have jointly developed ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) based on metal-semiconductor Schottky junctions between silver nanowires (AgNWs) and gallium nitride (GaN) ...
Posted in Mobile Health by Chris Newmarker on January 30, 2015 Why would two women who visit the doctor with identical early symptoms of multiple sclerosis have vastly different outcomes 10 years later? That’s what pharmaceutical ...
A new type of electric power storage unit that combines the best of supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity ...
Girls who frequently consume sugary drinks tend to start their menstrual periods earlier than girls who do not, according to new research from Harvard Medical School in Boston. The study, published online today in Human Reproduction, one ...
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules integrated into off-grid applications and its EnerPlex series of consumer products, ...
Tags: Solar Industry, low-load bearing structures, Electrical
The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
Tags: LED Lighting, diode applications, Electrical
UK based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will invest around £2.3m in an effort to transform its present Lunsford Road facility into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The announcement for the conversion follows another announcement of ...
Tags: Tree Nut Production, Peanut, Agriculture
Leicester-based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will be investing around £2.3m to convert its current Lunsford Road site into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The company made this announcement after its September announcement of ...
Tags: confectionery, popcorn, dry goods packaging
Posted in Regulatory and Compliance by Kristopher Sturgis on December 12, 2014 Bill Maisel, director of science at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, holds CRM devices. Earlier this week the science chief of ...
Tags: Medical Device, Drug Administration, Health
The British product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has created a new low-cost, durable and very attractive looking smart fabricthat can track body movement. Interwoven with fibre optic thread that acts as active ...
Tags: Tracking Fabric, Apparel
Anvil Semiconductors Ltd of Coventry, UK and the Cambridge Centre for GaN (part of University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) have grown cubic GaN on 3C-SiC on silicon wafers by metal-organic chemical ...
Tags: green LEDs, silicon wafers, Electrical
Baltimore--Niche magazine has named the finalists for its 2015 awards for excellence in fine craft, which includes various categories for jewelry design. Judging is based on three main criteria: technical excellence in both surface ...