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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Spinach is one of those leafy green vegetables that your mother always made you eat because it was good for you. Maybe Popeye was on to something when he sang, "I'm strong to the finich / Cause I eats me spinach." It turns out; spinach is good for more than just adding iron and calcium to your diet. A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University has combined the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy...
FARMINGTON, Conn., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The first two weeks of September 2012 are expected to be among the busiest on record for smartphone and tablet announcements. With Nokia, Motorola, Amazon, and Apple expected to announce new products before the ides - and analysts expecting Apple's next iPhone to "be the biggest product launch in consumer electronics' history" - more opportunity exists than ever before for businesses involved in electronics manufacturing. (Photo:...
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Snap MyLife, Inc., a fast-growing developer of cloud-service mobile applications for consumers, today announced that the company has received a $3 million term loan from Silicon Valley Bank. Snap MyLife, Inc. will use the cash infusion to drive ongoing growth and customer acquisition initiatives. The current term loan is the latest transaction in a long-term partnership. A top tech company financer, Silicon Valley Bank has extended...
MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Open-Silicon, Inc., a leading semiconductor design and manufacturing company, announced today that Hans Bouwmeester, senior director of Open-Silicon's IP and ARM Center of Excellence, will be one of the keynote speakers at Mentor Forum 2012 in Bangalore, India. Mr. Bouwmeester's presentation, "The Promise of 2.5D & 3D ASIC Design," will address the many factors causing the ASIC market and design landscape to change rapidly. This...
RED BANK, N.J., Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- By adding new patents to its original license to Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; NTCXF.PK), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has expanded that license under which Natcore will develop and commercialize a line of black silicon products based on NREL patents. "Black silicon" refers to the apparent color of the surface of a silicon wafer after it has been etched with nano-scale pores; the black color results from the...
Focus on technical innovation from 2013 will create new revenue opportunities for PV capital equipment supply chain. Santa Clara, Calif. (PRWEB) July 16, 2012 A technology roadmap for the PV industry is set to emerge during 2013, bringing the PV industry into alignment with adjacent technology sectors where roadmaps typically have broad industry support. The creation of the new PV technology roadmap will be a leading indicator for the new technology buying cycle, which will be driven...
RED BANK, N.J., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Five solar device manufacturers -- two from North America, two from China and one from Europe--have asked Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; NTCXF.PK) to determine if Natcore's black silicon and liquid phase deposition (LPD) processes can help them reduce costs and improve performance of their solar energy products. The companies typically use plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) to deposit films on their products....
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable resources will make Scotland the "Silicon Valley" of marine energy in the same way that hi-tech industries transformed Northern California, the First Minister will say tonight in the keynote speech of his American trade mission.First Minister Alex Salmond will make the claim tonight during a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, the oldest public affairs forum in the United States. In a speech entitled...
In the not-too-distant future, scientists may be able to use DNA to grow their own specialized materials, thanks to the concept of directed evolution. UC Santa Barbara scientists have, for the first time, used genetic engineering and molecular evolution to develop the enzymatic synthesis of a semiconductor. "In the realm of human technologies it would be a new method, but it's an ancient approach in nature," said Lukmaan Bawazer, first author of the paper, "Evolutionary selection of...
DALLAS, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The report "Silicon Carbide (SiC) Semiconductor Materials and Devices (Discretes & Chips) Market, Global Forecasts & Analysis (2012-2022)", published by MarketsandMarkets (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com), defines and segments the global SiC Semiconductor market with analysis and forecasting of the revenues and volumes for the overall market and all its sub-segments. Browse more than 200 market data tables & figures...
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Silica Gel, made synthetically from sodium silicate, is granular, vitreous, highly porous form of silica. Silica is a naturally occurring mineral that is purified and processed into either granular or beaded form. It has a strong affinity for water molecules. Silica gel is commonly used as a desiccant where it is packed in vapor-permeable plastic in order to control local humidity in order to avoid spoilage or degradation of some goods. Due to their high absorption of moisture and...
Germanium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ge and atomic number 32. This is a lustrous, hard, silver-white, metalloid that is chemically similar to tin. Germanium forms a large number of organometallic compounds and is an important semiconductor material used in transistors. Notable characteristics Germanium is a hard, grayish-white element that has a metallic luster and the same crystal structure as diamond. In addition, it is important to note that...
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