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OLED Project of the U.S. Department of Energy: First Milestone Reached

One year after beginning the project, developers at Osram Opto Semiconductors have introduced a prototype of an OLED light source which has a color rendering index of 80, a luminous efficiency of 7lm/W and an average bri...

20 Apr 2005

Cree-Raytheon Team Awarded DARPA Program to Ready Gallium Nitride RF Semiconductor Technology for System Insertion

Cree, Inc has announced today that a team led by Raytheon, as the prime contractor, and Cree as a subcontractor, has won a program award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under its Wide Bandgap ...

20 Apr 2005

Ceramic Fuel Energy Developer Increases Power Output

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited has succeeded in increasing the power output of its fuel cell, the core component in its energy generator. This achievement will enable CFCL to reduce the costs of its first product to market, ...

20 Apr 2005

Boeing Delivers Airborne Satellite Communication System to Air Force

Boeing recently delivered 16 airborne satellite communications systems to the U.S. Air Force that will enhance aircrew's real-time situation awareness in the cockpit. The Air Force took delivery of first 16 of 61...

20 Apr 2005

New State of Matter More Remarkable Rhan Predicted

The four detector groups conducting research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) -- a giant atom “smasher” located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory -- say they...

20 Apr 2005

BASF Shares Buy Back of Euro 1.5 billion Planned

The Board of Executive Directors of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, has decided to continue with the company’s share buyback program, and plans to buy back shares for a further €1.5 billion in the cours...

20 Apr 2005

Worldwide Lead-Free Certification for Electronics Launched by IECQ

With legislation in the U.S. on hazardous substances, including lead, in electronics already in place, and similar laws set to take effect in China and Europe shortly, how can electrical and electronic manufacturers be s...

20 Apr 2005

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Test World Record Magnet

Users of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory soon will have a new state-of-the-art magnet system for their research in physics and materials science. Engineers at the facility, led by project leader Mark Bird, re...

20 Apr 2005

New Firefighting Application for Superabsorbents

BASF, a leading producer of superabsorbents, is continuing to expand its applications portfolio for these functional polymers. Its latest product is an innovative firefighting gel distributed worldwide by Astaris LLC, a ...

20 Apr 2005

Mittal Steel Successfully Initials Agreements For Huta Czestochowa

Mittal Steel Company, has provided a progress report on its negotiations concerning the privatisation of Huta Czestochowa. Contrary to recent speculation in the media, Mittal Steel is making good progress with the neg...

20 Apr 2005

The Smorgon Steel Great Scrap Round-Up

Smorgon Steel has launched The Smorgon Steel Great Scrap Round-Up™, an initiative to enable rural and regional Australia to Clean Up, Cash In and Help Out! Under the program, Smorgon Steel will purchase obsolet...

20 Apr 2005

SDK to Increase Capacity for Small Diameter HD Media

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) will expand its hard disk (HD) media production capacity by 3.05 million disks a month, to 13.75 million disks a month, by March 2006 to meet a growing demand, centering on 1.89-inch-diameter HDs f...

20 Apr 2005

BP to Invest $130 Million on Clean Fuels Production

BP has announced plans to invest more than $130 million on new clean diesel facilities at its Whiting, Indiana refinery. With the addition of a new Distillate Hydrotreater (DHT), the refinery will produce additional s...

20 Apr 2005

Eastman Chemical Veteran to Head Virginia Tech Polymers Institute

S. Richard Turner, a research fellow at Eastman Chemical Company of Kingsport, Tenn., has been named director of the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute at Virginia Tech. Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute (...

20 Apr 2005

PANalytical Launches New Spectrometer Optimized for Low-Level Detection of Heavy Elements

PANalytical has introduced the Epsilon 5, a totally new energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer for low-level detection of heavy elements. Epsilon 5 detects elements from sodium to uranium in solid, pre...

19 Apr 2005

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

The global semiconductor market has entered an exciting period. Demand for chip technology is both driving the industry as well as hindering it, with current chip shortages predicted to last for some time. Current trends will likely shape the future of the industry, which is set to continue to show

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

The primary distinction between graphene-based batteries and solid-state batteries lies in the composition of either electrode. Although the cathode is commonly changed, carbon allotropes can also be employed in fabricating anodes.

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

In recent years, the IoT is rapidly being introduced into almost all sectors, but it has particular importance in the EV industry.

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OLED Project of the U.S. Department of Energy: First Milestone Reached

Cree-Raytheon Team Awarded DARPA Program to Ready Gallium Nitride RF Semiconductor Technology for System Insertion

Ceramic Fuel Energy Developer Increases Power Output

Boeing Delivers Airborne Satellite Communication System to Air Force

New State of Matter More Remarkable Rhan Predicted

BASF Shares Buy Back of Euro 1.5 billion Planned

Worldwide Lead-Free Certification for Electronics Launched by IECQ

National High Magnetic Field Laboratory Test World Record Magnet

New Firefighting Application for Superabsorbents

Mittal Steel Successfully Initials Agreements For Huta Czestochowa

The Smorgon Steel Great Scrap Round-Up

SDK to Increase Capacity for Small Diameter HD Media

BP to Invest $130 Million on Clean Fuels Production

Eastman Chemical Veteran to Head Virginia Tech Polymers Institute

PANalytical Launches New Spectrometer Optimized for Low-Level Detection of Heavy Elements

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Enhancing Materials Research with XRM Microscopy and Deep Learning Reconstruction

Digital Traceability and the Battery Passport: A Conversation with Rockwell Automation

Shaping the Future of Particle Characterization with Light Scattering

RXT Series: Reliance® Legacy Motors

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Enhance Nanostructure Analysis With the SAXSpoint 500 SAXS/WAXS System

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Understanding Prepregs for Advanced Material Design

Comparing DOSY and End-Group Analysis for Polymer Molecular Weight via Benchtop NMR

The Role of Vibration Isolation in Improving NMR Accuracy

An Introduction to OMNISEC RESOLVE Multi-Detector GPC/SEC System

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

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Enhancing Materials Research with XRM Microscopy and Deep Learning Reconstruction

Digital Traceability and the Battery Passport: A Conversation with Rockwell Automation

Shaping the Future of Particle Characterization with Light Scattering

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3How Electrode Architecture Enhances Sulfur Redox Kinetics

4What Happens Inside Soft Materials When They Deform? New Study Maps Structure and Flow

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