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NASA Studies Space Applications for GaN Crystals
Aug 20, 2018Two teams at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, USA are being funded to investigate the use of gallium nitride (GaN) to enhance space exploration. Engineer Jean-Marie ...
Tags: GaN transistors, GaN Crystal
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Texas Railroad Commission Says Injection Wells Not to Blame for Series of Quakes
Nov 4, 2015The three-member Texas Railroad Commission on Tuesday accepted the findings of the commission staff that two oil and gas wastewater disposal wells were not the likely cause of a series of earthquakes that shook parts of North Texas in late ...
Tags: Injection Wells, earthquakes, Shale gas
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Team Used Experiments to Show That The Electron-Rich Region Causes Silicon Bonds to Break
Mar 11, 2014Ubiquitous but frustrating, lithium-ion batteries fade because the materials lose their structure in response to charging and discharging. This structural change is closely related to the formation of electron-rich regions within the ...
Tags: electrons, The Lithiation Front, Silicon
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13 Workers at a U.S. Underground Nuclear Waste Dump Have Tested Positive
Feb 27, 2014Thirteen workers at a U.S. underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico have tested positive for radiation exposure after a recent leak, raising questions about whether the facility's safety systems worked as well as officials have said. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
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New Secrets About How Superconductivity and Magnetism Can Be Related
Jan 7, 2014Superconducting materials exhibit unexpected behaviors when subjected to magnetic fields or high pressures –discoveries that have implications for controlling electrons in those special materials. According to two studies, one ...
Tags: Cerium-Colbalt-Indium5, superconductivity, magnetism, electrons
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NNSA Recovered High-Activity Radioactive Materials From an Oncology Clinic in Mexico
Nov 25, 2013The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that it recovered high-activity radioactive materials from an oncology clinic in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. NNSA's Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) and the Mexican ...
Tags: High-activity, radioactive, material, remove, Mexico
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The New Research Aims to Improve QD-LEDs
Oct 29, 2013Quantum dots are nano-sized semiconductor particles whose emission color can be tuned by simply changing their dimensions. They feature near-unity emission quantum yields and narrow emission bands, which result in excellent color purity. ...
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Novaled and Colnatec Hope to Control Film Thickness with Novel Sensing Technology
Sep 18, 2013Novaled and Colnatec hope to control film thickness with novel sensing technology on OLED roll-to-roll production lines, while researchers at the University of Utah have tuned a plastic polymer that could yield true white OLEDs. While ...
Tags: White OLEDs, Lighting
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A Million Electric Cars Could Be on Roads Before The End of The Decade
Jun 20, 2013A million electric cars could be on roads across North America before the end of the decade with the help of research by the University of Waterloo, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Professor Zhongwei ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Auto, electric cars
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IT's the End of The Line for Roadrunner That Reigned as World's Fastest Supercomputer
Apr 2, 2013IT'S the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world's fastest supercomputer. The $US121 million ($116m) supercomputer, housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern ...
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The U.S. DOE Has Approved of The First Bionic Eye for Use
Mar 27, 2013Posted by Jack Mans -- Packaging Digest, 3/25/2013 12:22:33 PM The U.S. Department of Energy has approved of the first bionic eye for use in the U.S. The creation of this retinal prosthesis stems, in part, from DOE support for a decade of ...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Has Brought a Third Waste Repackaging Facility Online
Mar 14, 2013Los Alamos National Laboratory has brought a third waste repackaging facility online to in Tanks containing transuranic waste are trucked from Los Alamos National Lab to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, ...
Tags: Los Alamos National Laboratory, waste repackaging facility
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QC Completed The First-Ever Demonstration of Securing Control Data for Electric Grids
Feb 17, 2013A Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography (QC) team says it successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography provides a means of ...
Tags: quantum cryptography, securing control data, electric grids
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NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Successfully Tested Its Laser on Sunday
Dec 26, 2012Computerworld - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully tested its laser on Sunday, blasting a fist-size Martian rock and analyzing its makeup. The rover's Chemistry and Camera instrument, dubbed the ChemCam, zapped the rock with 30 ...
Tags: NASA, laser, Camera instrument, Curiosity
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The Mars Science Will Soon Finished All Being Well The Exploration Vehicle
Dec 24, 2012The Mars Science Laboratory space-probe successfully delivered the Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars as scheduled on August 6th 2012, and all being well the exploration vehicle will soon be about its business. Curiosity's agenda ...
Tags: Mars Science Laboratory, ChemCam, Curiosity, Mars