Two teams at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA are being funded to investigate the use of gallium nitride (GaN) to enhance space exploration. Engineer Jean-Marie ...
Tags: GaN transistors, GaN Crystal
Analog Devices Inc of Norwood, MA, USA (which provides mixed-signal ICs for cable access) has officially broken ground on its new global headquarters in Wilmington, MA, in a ceremony attended by Jay Ash (Secretary of Housing and Economic ...
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Ishida Europe is set to showcase its food packaging solutions at this year’s Foodex exhibition in the UK. The event will take place between 16 and 18 April in NEC Birmingham. At the event, the company will exhibit new ...
Tags: Ishida Europe, frozen food
X-Rite’s eXact family of handheld spectrophotometers is now supporting new ISO standard for Spot Color Tone Value (SCTV). eXact allows printers and packaging converters to understand, control, manage, and communicate color through ...
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Oncap has acquired US-based IntraPac International from funds managed by CI Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. Based in Mooresville, North Carolina, IntraPac designs and produces specialty rigid packaging solutions such as including ...
Tags: personal care, household products
Advanced materials group firm Haydale is seeking patent in the UK for its PATit anti-counterfeiting technology designed for packaging market. The company filed a new patent application for the technology, which uses in-house software ...
American Packaging Corporation Story City/Flexo Center of Excellence recertifies STAR designation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as part of the agency’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). The VPP program ...
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Uno has partnered with ColorADD, creators of internationally recognised colourblind alphabet to bring a new colour-coding system to the game. World-renowned family game Uno has introduced its first ever colorblind-friendly edition thanks ...
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Private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has collaborated with management to purchase FlexXray, a provider of x-ray inspection services focused exclusively on food safety. FlexXray assists Fortune 100 food ...
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Japan-based food packing machinery manufacturer Ishida says that its X-ray inspection system is helping a Turkish food company meet the stringent quality norms desired in the UK and Western European retail sectors. The food company named ...
Tags: Dried Food, X-ray System
Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA claims the first demonstration of 1kV-class aluminium nitride (AlN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Houqiang Fu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 5 July 2017]. AlN has a wide bandgap of 6.2eV. ...
Tags: semiconductor, MOCVD
In the presentation ‘Low vertical leakage current of 0.07μm/mm2 at 600V without intentional doping for 7μm-thick GaN-on-Si’ at the 12th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-12) in Strasbourg, France ...
Tags: technology engineering, epiwafer
ZEISS Group of Oberkochen, Germany is fueling its growth strategy by expanding into the process control market. Through its new Process Control Solutions (PCS) business unit - part of the ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT) ...
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The Sony PlayStation Now streaming service was touted as a Netflix of gaming, but since its inception it has existed more as a backwards compatibility method for PS3 titles. That changes today with Sony is finally adding PS4 games into ...
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The new AACS 2.0 encryption method used to protect Ultra HD Blu-rays from unlawful copying may have been cracked for the first time. A report from Torrent Freak brings word that a copy of Smurfs 2 has been posted to the BitTorrent tracker ...
Tags: HD Blu-rays, Blu-ray discs