A commercial reverse osmosis (RO) membrane was modified by adsorption of copper hydroxide particles, to improve the antibacterial and anti-adhesion properties of the membrane. Biofouling of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes used in water ...
Tags: Ro Membranes, Copper Hydroxide
UK-based etch, deposition and growth system maker Oxford Instruments is planning two seminars this year in India. BTNT 2013 will be held at Mohali (29 November) in association with "Indian Institute of Science Education and Research ...
Tags: OIPT Etch, Electrical, Electronics
Bruker Corp has introduced its LumiMap electroluminescence system for high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) epi wafer process metrology. Joining a suite of other Bruker HB-LED epi metrology tools, LumiMap incorporates many of the ...
Tags: Hb-LED Epi Wafers, Electrical
In a European collaboration within the project ConceptGraphene, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method for fast and inexpensive quality control of graphene grown on silicon carbide (SiC). The ...
Tags: Graphensic, Electrical, Electronics
Cardium Therapeutics has filed a new 510(k) submission for its current FDA-cleared Excellagen advanced wound care product based on the company's supplemental research and development activities. The new 510(k) submission describes ...
When a molten material cools quickly, parts of it may have enough time to grow into orderly crystals. But if the cooling rate is too fast for the entire melt to crystallize, the remaining material ends up in a non-crystalline state known as ...
Tags: glass, Construction
Researchers in China have been developing nanopatterned-sapphire substrates (NPSS), achieved with nano-sphere lithography (NSL), as a basis for the production of superior aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) semiconductor material for deep ...
Tags: DUV LEDs, LED, Electrical, Electronics
UV-visible-NIR microscope and microspectrometer manufacturer CRAIC Technologies of San Dimas, CA, USA has introduced an automated version of its flagship product, the 20/30 Perfect Vision UV-visible-NIR microspectrophotometer. The new ...
Tags: UV, Microspectrophotometer
Park Systems Corp, headquartered in Suwon, Korea, has introduced the Park NX-HDM, a fully automated automatic defect review and sub-angstrom surface roughness atomic force microscopy (AFM) system for device substrates and disk media. ...
Tags: Park Systems, AFM System, Semiconductor
Peking and Xidian universities have jointly developed a self-terminating gate recess etch that allows them to produce aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) normally-off metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with positive ...
Tags: Electrical, gate recess etch
Digital video microscopes utilize a camera to record and capture images. Traditional microscopes perform visual inspection with an eyepiece, but digital video microscopes achieve higher resolution and higher precision than what is typically ...
Tags: Digital video microscopes, Industrial Equipment, Components
This study develops a biofouling indicator for seawater desalination using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes in a southern California desalination pilot plant. Chlorophyll is identified as a sensitive indicator for membrane biofouling. One ...
Tags: Chemicals, RO Membranes
Zeiss, an optics and optoelectronics manufacturer, has planned to acquire Xradia, a US-based 3D X-ray microscopes provider. The closing of the acquisition is based on regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. Financial ...
Tags: Zeiss, Microscopy Business
LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that, in his invited talk at the LED Technology Forum in Singapore (7-10 ...
Tags: LayTec, Singapore's IMRE
A contentious controversy surrounds the high intensity of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LEDs, with experts split on whether or not indium-rich clusters within the material provide their remarkable efficiency. Now, researchers from the ...
Tags: InGaN LEDs, Electronics