By the time they're two, most children have had respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and suffered symptoms no worse than a bad cold. But for some children, especially premature babies and those with underlying health conditions, RSV can lead ...
Tags: respiratory syncytial virus, children health, prevent RSV infections
Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have used low-temperature metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of p-type gallium nitride (GaN) to achieve intentional surface roughening of a solar cell device, thereby ...
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By the time they're two, most children have had respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and suffered symptoms no worse than a bad cold. But for some children, especially premature babies and those with underlying health conditions, RSV can lead ...
Tags: respiratory syncytial virus, childhood disease, kids health
In a maze of blindingly complex reactions that snap oxygen atoms off cellulose or other bio-sources to create energy-dense fuel, the starting molecule's size has a curious effect. If the oxygen-rich molecule is too short to comfortably ...
Tags: energy-dense fuel, molecule's size, oxygen-rich molecule
Some tiny or microscopic samples or specimens of botanical or chemical or biological areas of science studies may need to be safely transported and carried or sent across laboratories. If they are not live, they can be applied on glass ...
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but anyone browsing this collection of glass crystallisation images beheld by Edgar Zanotto’s eye is unlikely to disagree with his assessment of beauty. In this book, Zanotto celebrates 36 ...
Tags: glass, decoration
Optical inspection tool manufacturer Nanotronics Imaging LLC of Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA has completed a $7m Series B financing round from San Francisco-based technology investment firm Founders Fund (which has previously backed companies ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers have been studying the effect of using undoped vertical spacers in the source and drain contacts to reduce off-state leakage in indium arsenide (InAs)-channel ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Mosfets
The FlowCAM particle imaging and analysis system from laboratory instrumentation manufacturer Fluid Imaging Technologies automatically detects, images and measures individual particles and agglomerates during the microencapsulation process ...
Tags: Real-Time Monitoring, Microencapsulation Process, Flowcam Instrument
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Fuji Electric Corp of America have been developing indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cell structures in efforts to extend the conversion efficiency of multi-junction photovoltaic (PV) ...
Tags: Nitride Barriers, Electrical
Excelitas Technologies of Waltham, MA, USA, which provides customized optoelectronics to OEMs, has acquired Lumen Dynamics of Ontario, Canada, a privately held volume manufacturer of lamp- and LED-based UV curing and fluorescence ...
Tags: UV System, LED-based UV curing
The Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) officially opened its new mineral processing pilot plant in Saskatoon today. The pilot plant, announced in the fall of 2012, is now fully operational and has been well-received by the mining industry, ...
Tags: Mineral, Metallurgy
USHIO America’s Solid State Lighting Group, a leader in the specialty and general lighting marketplaces, today announced the launch of its compact, high output Midori™ ULB35i LED fiber-optic illuminator manufactured by USHIO ...
Tags: LED Fiber-Optic, Illuminator
Canada-based QImaging has announced the introduction of its optiMOS scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera that is suitable for a broad range of fluorescence microscopy applications. optiMOS is an alternative to traditional charge-coupled device ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have used nanopyramid nitride semiconductor structures to explore long-wavelength green, olivine and amber light-emitting diode (LED) structures [Shih-Pang Chang, Optics Express, Vol. 21, p23030, 2013]. The team was ...
Tags: Nitride LEDs, Electronics