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Near-Net-Shape Manufacturing Technology Produces Higher Quality, More Reliable Components

If a coffee cup fails to survive an unexpected engagement with gravity, its replacement is just a few dollars away. But not all ceramics or metals can afford to fail - the precision components inside a nuclear reactor, the turbine engine inside an aircraft, the body armor to protect a soldier's head and neck.

4 Mar 2022

Investigating High-Temperature Corrosion Resistance of Structural Materials for Fusion Reactors

Do two promising structural materials corrode at very high temperatures when in contact with "liquid metal fuel breeders" in fusion reactors- Researchers of Tokyo Tech, YNU and QST now have the answer. This high-temperature compatibility of reactor structural materials with the liquid breeder-;a lining around the reactor core that absorbs and traps the high energy neutrons produced in the plasma inside the reactor-;is key to the success of a fusion reactor design.

4 Mar 2022

Weird World of High-Pressure Chemistry Made Simple by New Electronegativity Scale

A Skoltech professor and his Chinese colleagues have revised a key chemical concept, electronegativity, and determined this characteristic for all elements under varying pressures.

4 Mar 2022

Combining Color, Art and Semiconductor Technology

Cape Cod crépuscule watch: a distinctive timepiece that blends cutting-edge expertise

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

H2020 Project ELENA - First EU Lithium Niobate on Insulator PIC Platform

The ELENA project promises to benefit the entire photonics sector by developing the first European lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI)-based platform for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and establishing the first open-access foundry service for LNOI technology.

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

Gold Layer Improves the Inner Workings of Watches

A new method that improves the functioning and resistance of the key parts of a watch movement.

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

First CSEM Inventor Award

An invention that can double the battery life of Bluetooth earbuds - The first CSEM Inventor Award has been given to Dr. Franz Xaver Pengg for a remarkable invention that he developed and patented at CSEM.

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

The Perfect Trap: A New Way to Control the Polarization of Light

The scientists are now able to change the polarization of a continuous light wave which is oscillating in one plane into a wave which oscillate in a circular way.

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

Engineers Repurpose Bat Detector to Spot Defects in Production Equipment

CSEM teamed up with four companies to develop an inspection system that can spot and predict defects in production equipment.

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

Autonomous Robots Will One Day Assemble Telescopes Directly in Space

Engineers working under the EU-funded project PULSAR, have unveiled a fully autonomous robotic demonstrator, which could construct in orbit the primary mirror of a telescope from separate parts.

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

Switzerland’s Most Powerful Ground-Mounted Solar Facility to be Built in Cressier (NE)

VARO Energy Group (“VARO”) and Groupe E, companies active in the energy transition, announced today that they will build the most powerful ground-mounted solar facility in Switzerland.

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

Time to Say Goodbye to MetOp-A

After Performing 1.2 billion cycles during its operational lifetime, it is time to say a final goodbye to CSEM’s Corner Cube Mechanism (CCM) aboard the IASI instrument

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

Autonomous Wireless Sensor to Measure the Return of Electrical Currents

Fuselages of next-gen aircraft increasingly feature composite materials. Why is this design change problematic?

From CSEM 4 Mar 2022

New Ultra Centrifugal Mill ZM 300 - The Fastest Rotor Mill in the Market

Nothing matches the performance of the original! Retsch’s Ultra Centrifugal Mills set standards in sample homogenization since almost 50 years.

From RETSCH GmbH 3 Mar 2022

72DL PLUS™ Thickness Gauge Measures Ultra-Thin Layers at High Speed

The new 72DL PLUS™ ultrasonic thickness gauge delivers precision thickness measurements at high speed in a portable, easy-to-use device. With fast scanning, advanced algorithms and Olympus’lowest-ever minimum thickness capability, the gauge can measure the thickness of very thin layers for challenging applications across industries.

From Evident Industrial (XRF) 3 Mar 2022