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Mar 12 | News
At 1.3 million cubic feet, the Goddard Space Flight Center’s High Bay Clean Room, where the components of the James Webb Space Telescope are now being assembled, circulates a staggering one million cubic feet of air per minutes, ensuring no more than 10,000 particles larger than 0.5 microns. Progress on the telescope can now be viewed by webcam.
Mar 8 | News
Most polymers—materials made of long, chain-like molecules—are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator.
12/22/2009 | News
Scientists at Arizona State Univ. have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips. The researchers have shown that they can build stackable memory based on “ionic memory technology,” which could make them ideal candidates for storage cells in high-density memory. Best of all, the new method uses well-known electronics materials.
11/19/2009 | New To Market
Banner Engineering's FlexPower Solar Supply, BWA-SOLAR-001, includes
an integrated charge controller, rechargeable battery pack, AC wall charger and
mounting hardware for powering SureCross Wireless Network devices. The supply
can be used in a variety of configurations.
11/10/2009 | News
Engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., have come up with a new twist on the popular old saying about dreaming and doing: "If you can slice it, we can build it." Layers are crucial in Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication, and its operation sounds like something from science fiction.
10/28/2009 | News
Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius—the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes—against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs within the same playlist, the researchers found. The Univ. of California, San Diego electrical engineers also discovered that the music recommender they built from scratch can generate song playlists that human subjects thought were as good as those that Genius generates. The UC San Diego system works for songs that Genius knows nothing about.
10/21/2009 | Featured Articles
With pressure to get new products to market, companies are faced with meeting rigorous standards and the time consuming development and testing to make their products market ready. Since the development process is time consuming, taking from months, up to years, there is no doubt that outside, unbiased help could be beneficial. When faced with deadlines, companies turn to contract laboratories to meet their needs.
10/21/2009 | Featured Articles
Indesign provides electronic product design services. This includes full turn-key product development starting with concept development, continuing through detailed product design and prototyping, and finishing with production support. Indesign develops products for clients in a wide range of markets: medical, military, consumer, industrial, communications, and computer peripherals.
10/21/2009 | News
Physicists, chemists, and engineers at the Univ. of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules that may one day serve as drug-delivery vehicles to combat disease, and perhaps be used in small batteries that store and release charge.
10/21/2009 | News
North Carolina State Univ. engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today’s computer memory systems. Working at the nanometer level the engineers added metal nickel to magnesium oxide, a ceramic. The resulting material contained clusters of nickel atoms no bigger than 10 square nanometers, a 90% size reduction compared to today’s techniques and an advancement that could boost computer storage capacity.