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New LED Could Eliminate Electrical Circuit Bottlenecks

Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have invented a light-emitting transistor that could potentially bypass a major bottleneck that slows down electronic circuitry. The new device could pave the ...

25 Feb 2005

Texas Instruments Sells Thin-Film Transistor LCD Operations to Oki Electric

Texas Instruments has announced that the company and Oki Electric Industry (Oki) had reached agreement on a contract for the sale of TI’s large-size thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) driver op...

25 Feb 2005

Ceram Offers Landfill Testing Capabilities

Experts at CERAM , the internationally renowned centre for materials and technology, based in Stoke-on-Trent , are able to assist the many companies who have to comply with PPC Regulations for Landfill, by offering their...

25 Feb 2005

Hydrogen Energy Project Achieves Breakthrough

A new hydrogen storage technology being commercialised by The University of Queensland spin-off company, Hydrexia Pty Ltd, could propel hydrogen gas into the mass market as an alternative green fuel. Hydrexia wa...

23 Feb 2005

New Viscometer Accessory Adds to Malvern Zetasizer Nano Capabilities

Malvern has added the SV-10 Vibro viscometer to its range of material characterization instruments for use with its Zetasizer Nano particle characterization systems. The SV-10 is exceptionally easy to use and clean, is r...

23 Feb 2005

World's First Continuous Laser From Standard Silicon

Intel has announced a scientific breakthrough using standard silicon manufacturing processes to create the world's first continuous wave silicon laser. This technology could help bring low-cost, high-quality lasers and o...

23 Feb 2005

NexTech Awarded $3 Million Towards Development of SOFCs for Transportation APU Applications

NexTech Materials leads SOFC innovation with $2M in funding, targeting enhanced performance and manufacturability for aerospace and transportation sectors.

23 Feb 2005

UK Gets New Multi Million Pound Materials Centre

The first phase of a new £12 million hi-tech research centre that will lead the way for greater use of 'composite materials' was opened recently by Industry Minister Jacqui Smith. The new composite struc...

23 Feb 2005

Plantic Technologies Partners with Visy Industries on Revolutionary Plastic From Plants

Plantic Technologies, the Australian company behind the development of Plantic: plastic from plants, has today announced a strategic alliance with Visy Industries. Plantic Technologies developed and now manufactures P...

23 Feb 2005

Boeing to Sell Rocketdyne Propulsion Unit to Pratt & Whitney

The Boeing Company announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell its Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business to Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies company, for approximately $700 million in cash. ...

23 Feb 2005

Exactech Marks Entry Into Spine Graft Market Using Bioabsorbable Polymer Carrier

Exactech, Inc announced the successful initial implantation of Optecure in a recent spinal fusion surgery. The surgery was performed by Hansen Yuan, M.D., professor of orthopaedic and neurological surgery and director of...

23 Feb 2005

Commercial Acceptance of Breakthrough Barrier Technology for the Production of Thinner, Lighter OLEDs

Signaling the first commercial acceptance surrounding its barrier technology, Vitex Systems Inc., announced it has received its inaugural order -- worth more than $2 million -- from a major Japanese corporation. The flag...

23 Feb 2005

Development, Formulation and Commercialization of DelSite's Patented Drug-Delivery Technology Based on Natural Polymer

Carrington Laboratories, Inc. said Southern Research Institute transferred its responsibilities under a one year renewal of two related agreements with Carrington's wholly owned subsidiary, DelSite Biotechnologies, I...

23 Feb 2005

Small Bone Innovations

A new company formed by merchant bankers Viscogliosi Bros. LLC (VB) to create a single source of small bone & joint implant products will debut at this month's American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual conv...

23 Feb 2005

DEPO Agree to Stay Independent from Sandvik

Sandvik and German engineering company DEPO have agreed that DEPO should stay independent. Sandvik and German engineering company DEPO signed an agreement on 22 September 2004 under which DEPO were to become a member ...

23 Feb 2005