Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have recently found record levels of microplastic in arctic sea ice. However, the majority of particles were microscopically small. The ice ...
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The 2019 Fusion sedan is the first vehicle globally to get Ford's new Co-Pilot360 suite of driver assistance technology. Ford also announced sleeker styling for all models and better projected all-electric driving range for the plug-in ...
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PAC Machinery said that it has exceeded its goals for introducing new packaging equipment at the Pack Expo / PHARMA EXPO exhibit and symposium in Las Vegas, Nevada, US. Described as the year's most comprehensive packaging event, PACK EXPO ...
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Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has announced new bulk acoustic wave (BAW) filters that significantly expand Wi-Fi range and coverage ...
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The next entry in the charming farming series is coming to PS4, Nintendo Switch and PC, Rising Star Games has announced. According to developer Natsume, Harvest Moon: Light of Hope aims to “encompass twenty years of spirit that has ...
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As they drift off for their one- or two-day vacations shortly, will Apple's senior executives be patting themselves on the back? Or will they be slapping themselves on the forehead? Apple's 2016 was garlanded with the usual hype, but not ...
The company has announced the headset will be available November 10 on the Google Store and through retailers in five countries. In the UK, the headset will be available for £69 through EE or Carphone Warehouse, while US customers ...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Global Research Center in the USA "experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, bi-directional 4H-silicon carbide planar gate, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) fabricated on ...
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ICT-STREAMS, a part of the European Union Horizon 2020 program, is a new three-year project launched on 1 February (followed by a kick-off meeting at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece on 24-25 February) with the goal of ...
Tags: III-Vs-on-Si, silicon photonics
Researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) are proposing using III-nitride and silicon carbide (SiC) hybrid technologies for high-voltage power devices [Jin Wei et al, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol63, ...
Researchers in Hong Kong and China have claimed the first demonstration of gallium nitirde (GaN) fully vertical p-type-intrinsic-n-type (p-i-n) junction diodes on silicon (Si) [Xinbo Zou et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
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The range will include scooters, drift bikes, skateboards, pogo sticks and wagons all based on the vehicles ridden by the stars of the show during the upcoming Nitro Circus Live Tours. Nitro Circus has inked a multi-year agreement with ...
HRL Laboratories LLC in the USA has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) vertical tunneling Schottky barrier diode (TBS) that gives good combined on and off performance, compared with vertical Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Y. Cao et al, ...
Ford has started production of its Focus RS hatch back from its Saarlouis plant in Germany. The company said it will hit the dealership in the US this spring expanding its hatchback lineup in the country. Ford Focus RS is powered by a ...
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The price of Australian alumina continued to drift sideways Thursday, leaving Platts daily assessment unchanged at $200/mt FOB, despite a slight slippage of Yuan 15/mt ($2.30) in Chinese domestic prices in Shanxi province. The Australian ...
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