Toray Plastics (America) is now offering its analytic testing of films, laminations, and finished printed structures to all consumer packaged goods companies and converters. Toray’s wide array of sophisticated lab equipment and ...
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A Russian space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, bringing home a three-person crew from the International Space Station, including a record-breaking Russian cosmonaut. Russia's Gennady Padalka, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space ...
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Researchers in Japan have been developing ways to increase minority carrier lifetimes in lightly doped silicon carbide (SiC) with a view to insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) [Tetsuya Miyazawa et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol118, p085702, ...
French yogurt maker Danone is improving the distribution of its products in India by combining its Indian dairy business with baby and medical nutrition units. The company has been working for over six months to organize its Indian ...
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A cross party group of peers tabled amendments to the children and families bill that would have introduced plain packaging, although implementation will be subject to an evidence review. In July the government delayed plans to ban ...
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Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University has developed near-green light-emitting diodes (LEDs) using a new indium gallium nitride (InGaN) growth process that gives devices with a higher peak external quantum efficiency of 48.6% ...
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Biotechnology firm Alexion Pharmaceuticals has secured approval from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan for the use of its Soliris (eculizumab) drug to treat pediatric and adult patients with atypical hemolytic ...
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Global demand for precursors, a material used in the manufacturing of LEDs, is set to more than double from 2012 to 2016, according to a research firm. Precursors are used in the metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) ...
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Global demand for precursor material used in manufacturing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will more than double from 2012 to 2016 as the market for LED lighting booms, according to a new report 'Precursor for LED MOCVD-Market and Industry ...
Global demand for precursor, a material used in manufacturing of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), is set to more than double from 2012 to 2016, as the market for LED lighting booms, according to a new report entitled “Precursor for LED ...
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The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington DC has developed a method to grow epitaxial nitride semiconductors on graphene [Neeraj Nepal et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p061003, 2013]. The researchers hope that this could lead to ...
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Gas supplier Air Liquide of Paris, France, which supplies precursors for semiconductor manufacturing, has agreed to acquire Voltaix Inc of Branchburg, NJ, USA, a manufacturer of materials used in the production of semiconductor devices and ...
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The Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts successfully blasted off from Kazakhstan this afternoon and is now chasing down the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft lifted off at 4:31 p.m. ET and is only the second ...
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A new crew is taking over the International Space Station after two NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut successfully returned to Earth Monday night. After undocking from the space station, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield and ...
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Researchers in the USA at BAE Systems and Purdue University have developed atomic layer deposited (ALD) aluminium oxide as passivation for nitride semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Dong Xu et al, Electron Device ...
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