Rare earth market quotation in China: the latest prices of terbium oxide, dysprosium oxide and praseodymium neodymium oxide were in the upward trend in the week ended on Friday February 14, 2020. For other products, their prices remained unchanged on low trading activity in the market. 

Professor Chunlei Guo and his team from the University of Rochester School of Optics have used powerful femtosecond laser pulses to etch tungsten surface with nanoscale structures, which has increased the solar energy absorber efficiency by 130%, making it a perfect solar absorber. Related results were published in the journal Light: Science and Application.

Molybdenum market quotation in China: the ferro molybdenum, molybdenum oxide and molybdenum powder prices were rose slightly in the week ended on Friday February 14, 2020 despite quiet market inquiry and cautious sentiment of traders.

Tungsten hexafluoride products in Hebei rank the world's first place, with an annual output of 1,000 tons. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of Hebei Province, in 2019, the economic operation of the province's electronic information industry has shown a good development momentum, and various economic indicators are stable. The industry's main business income reached 172.01 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.5%. Among them, the main business income of the manufacturing industry reached 129.51 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%. The software industry realized the main business income of 42.05 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.0%.