Led by China, the solar industry will grow at a CAGR of 8.3% – from 37.5 GWp (gigawatt peak) in 2013 to 65.6 GWp in 2019 – but emerging trade disputes involving the Asian giant, as much as global policies, cast a shadow over ...
Tags: solar industry, Market, X-Si
S3 Group of Dublin, Ireland (an independent supplier of RF and mixed-signal IP and tailored silicon solutions to service operators, OEMs and semiconductor vendors) has made available what is claimed to be the first fully integrated, ...
Tags: RFIC, Single-Conversion Radio
Iridium Communications Inc of McLean, VA, USA has completed an extensive testing program for qualification of its new solar panel design for the Iridium NEXT constellation of satellites. The array that powers the satellites contains four ...
Tags: Spectrolab, solar panel
An international team of researchers has been exploring nanomembranes of beta-phase gallium oxide (β-Ga2O3) as a channel material for high-voltage field-effect transistors (FETs) [Wan Sik Hwang et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol104, ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Transistor
DENSO Corp. has announced a significant increase in part number coverage for its line of spark plugs, direct ignition coils and wire sets. The latest catalog (SPIWDIC-CAT-0314), available in print or electronic form, covers 239 million ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Ignition Products
DENSO Products and Services Americas Inc.has introduced a GK3-7 Iridium Saver Plug for natural gas engines featuring a three-prong design to physically block rapid gas flow,which allows the proper spark to be generated. The company says ...
Tags: Denso, Gas Engines, Spark Plug
Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...
Tags: asteroid mining, space rocks, space mining
After two years of difficult and meticulous work examining, refurbishing, and testing the aging workhorse watt balance called NIST-3, PML researchers have used the instrument to obtain their latest measured value of the Planck constant ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Driven mainly by heat spreaders for high-power device thermal management, the diamond materials market for semiconductor devices will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% to more than $43m in 2020, according to the base ...
Tags: Semiconductors, Diamond Materials
Universal Display Corporation, enabling energy-efficient displays and lighting with its UniversalPHOLED(R) technology and materials, today announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) issued a decision on the previously-disclosed appeal ...
Iridium prices moved slightly lower this week as sellers continued to lower their offers to attract buyers. The Platts New York Dealer iridium price slipped this week to $400-450/oz from $400-475/oz the previous week. "There's just ...
Tags: Iridium prices, Mineral
OLEDs are already used in the displays of smart phones or digital cameras today. They offer an especially bright image with high contrast, but come with a serious drawback: typically, only one quarter of the electrical energy invested in ...
Iridium and ruthenium prices drifted lower this week on lack of industrial interest and excess supply among traders and consumers. The Platts New York Dealer price range for iridium fell to $725-800/oz this week from $775-850/oz last ...
Bosch EV1-EV6 fuel injectors. Robert Bosch LLC has added part numbers for fuel injectors, iridium and original equipment specialty spark plugs, and specialty wiper blade sets to expand coverage to 12 million domestic, European and Asian ...
Refractory metals are a special group of elements, which are otherwise metals by nature. These metals have certain properties like, a. Exceptionally high melting points and b. Unusually resistant to wear and tear, physical deformation ...
Tags: Crucial Aspects, Refractories