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Defect Analysis Platform for Semiconductor Manufacturers Wins Award

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that its Applied SEMVision™ G4 Defect Analysis platform has been honored with the prestigious Editors' Choice Best Product Award by Semiconductor International (SI) magazine.

From Applied Materials Inc 15 Jul 2009

Nanotechnology Could Enable Fuel Cells to become More Competitive

Fuel cells can compete with batteries, the internal combustion engine and the power grid. Hydrogen can compete with any fuel now produced and cause no pollution but its price is higher than gasoline or natural gas becaus...

15 Jul 2009

Veeco Aggressively Accelerates Efforts into the Solar Cell Market

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that it has completed a transaction to purchase certain assets of DayStar Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: DSTI), in order to accelerate its penetration of the rapidly growing copper, indium, gallium, selenium (CIGS) solar market.

From Veeco 15 Jul 2009

Laser Light Turns Shiny Metals Black

Dr. Chunlei Guo and his team of researchers for the project discovered a way to transform a shiny piece of metal into one that is pitch black, not by paint, but by using incredibly intense bursts of laser light.

15 Jul 2009

SentryGlas Licensed by UK Structural and Architectural Glass Products Manufacturer

DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions has licensed its DuPont SentryGlas Expressions digital interlayer technology to Sharda Glass, Ltd. located in West Drayton, United Kingdom. Established in 2006 by Neil Sharda, Sharda Gla...

15 Jul 2009

Plywood Alternative Revolutionises Engineering and Design Thought Processes

Uniboard entered the Australian and New Zealand markets during April 2008 with an enormous impact. This strong yet lightweight and universal replacement to marine ply board, plywood and traditional construction materials...

From Dotmar EPP Pty Ltd 15 Jul 2009

Thick Film Epoxy Lining Continues to Protect Petroleum Storage Tanks 30 Years On

Like the Energizer Bunny®, a reinforced, 100-percent-solids thick-film epoxy interior lining, Tnemec Bridgeport Glass Armor 300, keeps going and going and going as it protects several petroleum storage tanks in Pasadena, Texas, from corrosion. Originally applied to the tanks in 1977, the Glass Armor linings were recently found to be in good condition when tested in accordance with the American Petroleum Institute (API) 652 Linings of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tank Bottoms, according to Tnemec coating consultant Eddie Borne.

15 Jul 2009

OLED Market Predicted to be Worth $7.1 billion by 2016

In its latest Quarterly OLED Shipment and Forecast Report, DisplaySearch forecasts the total OLED display market will grow to $7.1 billion by 2016, from $0.6 billion in 2008, with a CAGR of 36% (Figure 1).

15 Jul 2009

Merger Creates World's 3rd Largest Integrated Coated-Recycled Board Company in the U.S.

Sun Capital Partners, Inc., a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, today announced that its affiliate, PaperWorks Industries, Inc. ("PaperWor...

15 Jul 2009

Illig to Present Latest Thermoforming Systems for Sheet Processing at Fakuma

ILLIG will present their latest line systems for sheet processing at the upcoming Fakuma, Friedrichshafen, October 13 to 17, 2009. These lines are suitable for manufacturing products for various applications in electrical engineering, electronics, automobile and vehicle construction, general industrial applications through to household, leisure and sports articles.

From ILLIG Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG 15 Jul 2009

Special Trailer Developed Allows Alloy Coils to be Transported More Efficiently

Wide products and coils have to be kept clean, dry and absolutely secure in transit - in some cases at a temperature of 200 degrees: The handling of high-performance materials from ThyssenKrupp VDM (Werdohl, Germany) pos...

15 Jul 2009

Physicists Find Way to Control Individual Bits Bringing Quantum Computers a Step Closer

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised* a viable way to manipulate a single “bit” in a quantum processor without disturbing the information stored in its neighbors. The approach, which makes novel use of polarized light to create “effective” magnetic fields, could bring the long-sought computers a step closer to reality.

15 Jul 2009

BNL Researchers Win Award for Work on Superconductivity

J.C. Seamus Davis and John Tranquada, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, along with Aharon Kapitulnik of Stanford University, have been named the recipients of the 2009 Heik...

15 Jul 2009

Stacked Graphene NanoFibers Now Avilable from Strem Chemicals

Strem Chemicals, Inc, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals for research and development, announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Catalyx Nanotech to make Stacked Graphene NanoFibers (SGNF) available for...

15 Jul 2009

Infrared Thermography Offers Valuable Information to the Plastics Industry

Infrared Thermography is a technique that can be employed in the plastic industry for process optimization and quality improvement, as well as in the development of new tools. In the thermoplastic injection process, a large amount of information about the transformation process can be collected by taking thermographic images of the recently injected pieces that are still in the mould or that have just been extracted.

15 Jul 2009