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Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency (for non-concentrator solar cells) of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell.
Sharp shows plant making 10th generation panels
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world's first making giant "10th generation" panels for flat screen TVs.
Sharp's New Semiconductor Laser for Triple- and Quadruple- Layer Blu-ray Discs
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs.
EU antitrust regulators charge LCD panel makers
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- European Union antitrust regulators have charged Royal Philips Electronics NV and LG Display with fixing the price of liquid crystal display monitors, Philips said Monday.
Panasonic announces Q1 net loss of 560 mln dlrs
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Japanese high-tech giant Panasonic Corp. announced Monday a big first-quarter loss, blaming weak sales of televisions, digital cameras and other electronic goods during the recession.
Nokia sues top LCD, CRT display makers
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said Tuesday it has filed suits against several leading liquid crystal display makers - including Philips, Toshiba, Sharp and Samsung - for alleged price fixing.
File sharing drops in Sweden after govt crackdown
Oct 12, 2009 |
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More than 40 percent of Swedes engage in illegal file sharing, but recording industry officials have noted a sharp drop since a government crackdown earlier this year, they said Monday.
You're never too old to learn
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Dr. Lixia Yang (above) and her co-author, Ralf Krampe of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany, found that seniors were able to retain 50 per cent of concepts they learned almost a year before.
Solar cell shipments in Japan hit record high in April-June
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Demand for solar cells has been growing rapidly in Japan with a record generating capacity of 83,260 kilowatts shipped to the domestic market between April and June, up 82.5 percent from the same quarter last year, a private-sector ...
Explained: RNA interference
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, ...
Direct evidence of role of sleep in memory formation is uncovered
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 15, 2009 |
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A Rutgers University, Newark and Collége de France, Paris research team has pinpointed for the first time the mechanism that takes place during sleep that causes learning and memory formation to occur.
New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.
Danish nanowires have great potential
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...
Gay, bisexual men who have social anxiety tend to engage in risky sex
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 01, 2009 |
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A Ryerson University HIV researcher has found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities among gay and bisexual men, some of whom are HIV-positive.
The least sea ice in 800 years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 01, 2009 |
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New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The ...
