Ford 2017 F-150 will be offered to customers with all-new 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine and 10-speed transmission. The new second-generation 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine will provide 30 lb.-ft. more peak torque compared with the first-generation ...
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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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Muller Milk & Ingredients is planning to reverse the proposed closure of Hanworth dairy, saving 170 jobs. The dairy company also intends to rejuvenate and expand its milk&more doorstep delivery business, which currently supplies milk ...
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Worldwide shipments of virtual reality (VR) hardware will skyrocket in 2016, with total volumes reaching 9.6 million units. Led by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, and Oculus, the category should generate hardware revenues of ...
A team led by Alexander Spott of University of California, Santa Barbara – in collaboration with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison – has fabricated what is said to be the first ...
Levi Strauss & Co. elected former CEO of L.L.Bean Inc., Christopher McCormick, to its board of directors, effective April 13, 2016. “As we work to accelerate profitable growth, we are expanding the board's expertise in the fastest ...
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Researchers based in China, Singapore and Turkey have used an extremely thin layer of silicon dioxide (SiO2) insulator as a charge inverter in indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), improving light output power and ...
Memjet will be showcase high-speed, digital color printing technology that deliver the speed, ease of use, and low cost of ownership that companies, at drupa 2016. In the Memjet stand, attendees can see the power of this technology at ...
Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France (a subsidiary of Safran and Thales that makes cooled infrared detectors for military, space, scientific and industrial applications) says that its new Daphnis HD is entering production. Sofradir ...
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Rubicon Technology Inc of Bensenville, IL, USA (which makes monocrystalline sapphire substrates and products for the LED, semiconductor and optical industries) has confirmed that investment firm Paragon Technologies Inc of Easton, PA, USA, ...
Kingsdown, Inc. has announced that they have signed a lease for a new, 7,800-square-foot showroom at the International Home Furnishings Center at M-528 in High Point. The new space is being remodeled to showcase the latest sleep technology ...
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Eyeking, a maker performance sunglasses, including the licenses for Under Armour Eyewear and Hobie Polarized, named Scott Betty as its new senior vice president of product and design. Betty brings more than 20 years of product and design ...
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VI Systems GmbH of Berlin, Germany (a fabless spin-off of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia) has demonstrated a record transmission distance of 2.2km of multimode OM4 ...
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At the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (DCS 2016) event in Baltimore, MD, USA (17–21 April), Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France, which makes cooled infrared (IR) detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe), ...
Researchers in Hong Kong and USA have developed indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dot (QD) microdisk lasers directly integrated on silicon (Si) with performance comparable to the best reported for similar devices on gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
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