Laura is celebrating her 5th birthday and, as the family gathers around the table to cut the cake, they are not thinking about the many facets of production that turned myriad raw materials into a safe, delicious birthday cake. But long ...
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UK-based MR Solutions has announced two major breakthroughs that could bring bench-top 3 Tesla MRI scanners into more pre-clinical research laboratories. The scanners have been developed using super-conducting magnets which eliminate the ...
In physics, the wavelength of a sinusoidal wave is the spatial period of the wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats. It is usually determined by considering the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the ...
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Plessey Semiconductors has said that its EPIC sensor will now sell for less than a dollar in high volume consumer applications.The company has cost-reduced it electrometer sensing technology with a new electrode design to replace the ...
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Computerworld - Imagine sitting down at work, plopping a mobile device on the desk and having it wirelessly charge itself while, at the same time, synchronizing new data to your PC. In that world, one could also wirelessly charge a phone ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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In a paper set to be published this week in the scientific journal Nature, IBM researchers are claiming a huge breakthrough in spintronics, a technology that could significantly boost capacity and lower power use of memory and storage ...
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Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for precise measurement and control, has introduced updated specifications for its Model CRX-VF cryogen-free micro-manipulated probe ...
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Within the sensor market segment, accelerometers and gyroscope devices will be fastest growing product category. Worldwide sensor sales are expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18% between 2011 and 2016, reaching ...
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This quarter, Plessey Semiconductors plans to sample its GaN-on-Silicon LEDs. Samples are due out in December with production sales beginning in March for both LED die and packaged devices. It is the culmination of a decade of ...
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Plessey has designed its contactless electric field sensor, dubbed EPIC, in to a hand held ECG monitor which it will launch at next month's Electronica exhibition in Germany. The UK-based firm has gone into the medical terminal ...
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Back to the future:UK team makes solid-state maser 15 Aug 2012 Pentacene-doped organic active material amplifies at 1.45GHz may one day find applications in molecular biology. Mark Oxborrow and the solid-state maser Scientists at ...
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If you've ever hoarded newspapers, rinsed out a somewhat rancid pasta sauce jar and have a heap of potato peelings in your garden that you optimistically refer to as 'compost', you're probably fully aware of the concept of recycling. And ...
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University of Utah physicists invented a new "spintronic" organic light-emitting diode or OLED that promises to be brighter, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than the kinds of LEDs now used in television and computer displays, ...
Physicists at the University of Utah have invented a new"spintronic"OLED(organic light-emitting diode)that promises to be more eco-friendly,bright and cost-effective than other existing popular LEDs. A new"spintronic"organic ...
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