At the 2017 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan (5-8 June), nanoelectronics and photovoltaics research centre Imec of Leuven, Belgium reported record values below 10-9Ω.cm2 for PMOS source/drain contact ...
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Australian business attitudes are upbeat as we head into the year-end holiday trading period. According to Dun & Bradstreet’s September Business Expectations Survey, companies are anticipating increased sales, profits, employee ...
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Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) claims a record low subthreshold swing of 68mV/decade for a gallium arsenide (GaAs) field-effect transistor (FET) [SangHyeon Kim et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online 24 ...
PV market demand plunged rapidly as expected as it entered in the third quarter, driving significant price decline across the PV supply chain. Prices of solar cells and wafer have reached new low for consecutive weeks. Consequently, ...
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Due to rapid decline in cell prices, the mono and multi-Si wafer market witnessed weaker prices. Taiwanese manufacturers couldn’t tolerate prices above US$ 0.72/pc, which put pressures on wafer manufacturers. The average trading price ...
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The decision of the British people to leave the EU has shocked many people. Even those fearing that the referendum may result in the undoing of the work of many previous years for a stronger union of the European nations, had a sense of ...
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The latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey results show that the steady increase in hiring intentions in Australia will continue into the third quarter of 2016. Of the 1,500 public and private employers surveyed, 13 per cent indicated ...
AMD is losing market share to Nvidia in the discrete GPU market while falling further behind Intel in the PC processor field. AMD is likely to suffer from a record low share of both markets in the first quarter of 2016, according to ...
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Oil prices have been raised in Saudi Arabia. At the same time, the Saudi cabinet has also added tariffs on electricity, water and sanitation services. Saudi officials have approved a national budget for the coming year with a deficit of ...
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For drivers in the United States this year, it's been the gift that keeps on giving with low gasoline prices helping them saving money. The US national average for gasoline has dropped below 2 US dollars a gallon, the lowest price since ...
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised its base rate from 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent on Thursday, following the U.S. Federal Reserve's lead overnight and raising concerns of capital outflows from the region. The Hong Kong dollar's peg ...
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China's iron ore importers need to keep a close eye on the country's steel mills as they mull output cuts and shutdowns amid a year-end credit crunch, the China Iron and Steel Association said Thursday. Prices of iron ore derivatives ...
A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
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Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has set its December thermal coal reference price, also known as the Harga Batubara Acuan, at $53.51/mt FOB, setting a fresh record low for the eighth consecutive month and the lowest ...
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Researchers in the USA have reduced current leakage for aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) on silicon to the level achieved for devices produced on much more expensive silicon carbide [Bo Song et ...
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