Todd Richmond

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Spartan Emergency Response Breaks Ground on $20 Million Facility Expansion
August 14, 2025
Main entrance to the Commscope Corporate Center.
Amphenol to Acquire Connectivity, Cable Solutions Business from CommScope for $10.5B
August 11, 2025
Cowboys push a cow out of its spot to a veterinarian inspection at a ranch that exports livestock to the U.S., in Zamora, northern Mexico, Monday, July 28, 2025.
The U.S. Plans to Build a $750M Fly Factory in Texas to Stop a Flesh-Eating Cattle Parasite
August 15, 2025
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Details of T1's Solar Vision Emerge After Bailing on $2.6B U.S. Battery Factory
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Using the OLED structure in this schematic, researchers were able to delay the degradation in brightness of an OLED with the TADF emitter 4CzIPN by eight to sixteen times. First, the hole blocking layer was sandwiched between layers of Liq with thicknesses of 3 nm on the emitter side and 2 nm on the electron transport side. This newly developed modification enhanced the lifetime by eight times (red line). The lifetime was further increased by a factor of sixteen overall (green line) by also doping the emitter and host layer with an electron transport material and doping the electron transport layer with Liq, two enhancements previously reported in the literature for other OLEDs. The devices were operated at a constant current with an initial brightness of 1,000 cd/m2, and the lifetime plots in this figure were smoothed for clarity. These improvements bring highly efficient and low-cost displays and lighting with TADF materials one step closer to reality.
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Microsoft Looks to Buy $50M Foxconn Parcel in Wisconsin
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Wisconsin AG Sues 18 Companies Over PFAS Contamination
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In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, the Molson Coors facility is seen in Milwaukee.
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A 1938 Talbot-Lago T150-C SS that sold for $4,440,262 in 2011.
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Bid Continues to Recover Rare Car Stolen from Factory
The vehicle was one of only about 16 of its kind produced.
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No Tax Credits for New Foxconn Plant in Wis.
A scaled-down factory won't qualify for tax credits unless the electronics giant renegotiates with the state.
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In this 2017 file photo, a protester stands in opposition to the decades-old Enbridge Line 5.
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Tribe Sues Enbridge to Force Pipeline Removal
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A wind turbine of Sinovel Wind Group at an offshore wind farm near Nantong city, east of China’s Jiangsu province, in December 2011.
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Chinese Wind Turbine Maker Fined $1.5 Million
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Mining Moratorium Lifted in Wisconsin
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The blast killed five workers and injured 12 more.
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Wisconsin Approves Foxconn Contract Terms
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Wisconsin Bill Would Legalize Hemp
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