Industry News
Carbon nanotube research concluded
The European projects ‘Carbon nanotubes technology on Si IC’s’ and ‘Nanowire-based one-dimensional electronics’ have been completed.
[ + ]Asia distributor
Arrow Asia Pac will distribute Recom Asia's range of AC/DC power supplies, DC/DC converters, the R-78 switching regulator series and constant current high-power LED drivers, under a new agreement.
[ + ]Self-validating thermocouple
Scientists at Britain's National Physical Laboratory have developed a self-validating thermocouple technology which incorporates metal-carbon eutectic alloy fixed points. This means that the thermocouple can self-validate, or check that it is measuring the temperature correctly.
[ + ]GaN-on-Si device opens market
IMEC has produced simple and robust GaN-on-Si double heterostructure FET (field effect transistor) architecture for GaN-on-Si power switching devices.
[ + ]New storage company
Storage solutions from actidata are now available in Australia, according to TData, its newly appointed distributor.
[ + ]Converter distributor
Mornsun Scientfic, manufacturer of AC/DC converters, DC/DC converters, LED drivers, IGBT driver and isolation transmitters distributed in Australia and New Zealand by DLPC, has appointed a new distributor in Victoria.
[ + ]E-readers booked for boost
The year 2009 is likely to be remembered as a watershed year in the evolution of e-books and e-readers with several milestones and product launches standing out as catalysts for change in the market, according to Gartner.
[ + ]Power sharing
Avnet is to distribute the full range of Eaton’s power quality products and services to the Australian IT channel.
[ + ]Thin-film photovoltaic production facility opened
DuPont Apollo, a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont, has opened its silicon-based, thin-film photovoltaic module manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, China. The facility supports renewable energy such as solar.
[ + ]LEDs to dominate TFT LCD backlights by 2011
Light-emitting diodes will become the dominant large-area TFT LCD backlight unit light source by 2011 with a 56% share, according to a DisplaySearch report.
[ + ]Wind connector report
Bishop & Associates has released a seven-chapter research report defining the World Connector Market for Renewable Energy.
[ + ]Flexible electronics gets a boost
Terepac Corporation and IMEC are collaborating on packaging technologies for flexible electronics.
[ + ]SAMFET secrets revealed
An international team of researchers from the Netherlands, Russia and Austria has found that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs).
[ + ]Security contract
Datacraft has won a $8.9 million contract to ensure a high-connectivity and secure infrastructure for one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical company's new Asian resource centre in Singapore.
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