Toyota's luxury brand Lexus has launched its new crossover LF-1 Limitless at the North American International Auto Show 2018. Lexus established the luxury crossover segment two decades ago with the global debut of the RX 300 at Detroit. ...
Imec and Ghent University in Belgium have used aspect ratio trapping (ART) techniques to produce indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) multiple quantum wells (MQWs) on 300mm-diameter silicon in a ridge format that could be used in future laser ...
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Researchers in China have achieved continuous wave (cw) lasing at room temperature for indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) grown directly on silicon (Si) [Yi Sun et al, Nature Photonics, 10, p595, 2016]. The team from Suzhou ...
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popchips inc., the snack company has announced the introduction of an entirely new product line called Ridges. The new announcement was made today by popchips CEO Dave Ritterbush at the Natural Products Expo West trade show in Anaheim, ...
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NASA released radar images of a large asteroid that made a relatively close approach to Earth on Saturday. Scientists said the flyby provided one of the best opportunities in years to gather data about a passing space rock. NASA Jet ...
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Jijun Feng and Ryoichi Akimoto based in China and Japan have developed low-threshold green and green-yellow laser diodes (LDs) based on a beryllium zinc cadmium selenide (BeZnCdSe) quantum well [Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p161101, 2015]. ...
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The Ruffles brand is bringing one of Canada’s biggest snacking successes and taste-bud titillating curiosities, Ruffles All Dressed potato chips, into the hands - and mouths - of ever-eager Americans for a limited time. Ruffles All ...
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Technische Universit Wien (TU Wien) in Austria has improved its bi-functional 6.8μm quantum cascade laser and detector (QCLD) technology [Benedikt Schwarz et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p071104, 2015]. It is hoped that monolithic ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has used indium tin oxide (ITO) as part of the cladding for semi-polar indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diodes (LDs) [A. Pourhashemi et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol106, p111105, 2015]. The ...
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Qosina Corp. Qosina feature a one handed green torquer from its line of guide wire accessories. Qosina is featuring a one handed green torquer (#97339) from its extensive line of guide wire accessories. Made of ABS, Polypropylene, and ...
It can also reduce the amount of PET material needed to produce the finished bottle, allowing for reduced wall thickness for an optimum strength-to-weight ratio. According to Sidel, the result is a bottle that uses less raw materials and ...
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Best Practices for Bearing ProtectionAdam Willwerth, Sales and Marketing Manager, Electro Static Technology Voltages arcing through the bearings of VFD-driven motors create thousands of pits, which cause increased friction and noise and ...
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Fednav pioneers the use of drones in polar shipping Wednesday, Mar 26, 2014 MONTREAL, March 25, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - Fednav recently became the first shipping company to employ drones, or Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAV), for ice reconnaissance ...
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Custom Building Products' new SuperiorBilt Platinum Notch Trowel is a specially designed trowel that is engineered to provide better contact when applying mortars used underneath large format tile (LFT). Part of Custom's SuperiorBilt tool ...
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At night, as cold settles in, lake ice creaks and groans. It's been excessively cold, and I camped exposed on the snow-swept surface. Other than the lack of vegetation and the sounds at night, you'd never know you were on a lake. It feels ...
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