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NuNano Installs and Automates TESCAN FESEM for High-Precision Quality Control

NuNano Ltd. and TESCAN ORSAY HOLDING a.s. announce the successful installation of a TESCAN Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM) at NuNano’s Bristol facility, where it will be used for 100-percent automated quality control on atomic force microscope (AFM) probes with some of the tightest dimensional tolerances available today.

From Tescan Group 22 Apr 2021

Study Determines Charge Buildup and Dynamics in Resonant-Tunneling Diodes

Diodes are widely used electronic devices that act as one-way switches for current. A well-known example is the LED (light-emitting diode), but there is a special class of diodes designed to make use of the phenomenon known as "quantum tunneling".

21 Apr 2021

Integrating Photonic Components with Superconducting Electronics to Enhance AI Capabilities

As artificial intelligence has attracted broad interest, researchers are focused on understanding how the brain accomplishes cognition so they can construct artificial systems with general intelligence comparable to humans' intelligence.

21 Apr 2021

New Hybrid Material may Soon Lead to Advanced Fuel Cell Technology

When it comes to fuel cell technology, protons are considered the next big thing. The subatomic exchange generates significant power that challenges modern solid-state fuel cell technology that is currently used to fuel space shuttles.

21 Apr 2021

Pfeiffer Vacuum Presents Extension to DigiLine Series: Total Pressure Vacuum Gauges with Digital Signal Outlet

For more than 20 years now, Pfeiffer Vacuum’s portfolio has included its comprehensive DigiLine range of digital total vacuum pressure gauges, which can be modularly adapted to suit any industrial vacuum applicatio...

From Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH 21 Apr 2021

New Advances in Materials Science are Key to Developing Hardware for Quantum Computing

A new study outlines the need for materials advances in the hardware that goes into making quantum computers if these futuristic devices are to surpass the abilities of the computers we use today.

20 Apr 2021

Scientists Map Performance Variations to Identify How Lithium-Metal Batteries Fail

Scientists have identified the primary cause of failure in a state-of-the-art lithium-metal battery, of interest for long-range electric vehicles.

20 Apr 2021

Study Investigates Active Liquid Crystal Systems to Search of Autonomous Materials

Liquid Crystals (LC) are widely deployed in display technology and optical fibres. From smartphones in your pockets to large screen TVs, LCs are everywhere, as this special state of matter has been found in colorful soap bubbles as well as certain living tissues.

20 Apr 2021

New Catalyst for Sustainable Chemical Synthesis

Researchers used platinum and aluminum compounds to create a catalyst which enables certain chemical reactions to occur more efficiently than ever before.

20 Apr 2021

Buehler Presents Etching of Stainless and Maraging Steels Webinar

Buehler is offering Metallography & Etching of Stainless and Maraging Steels, an educational webinar presentation in English on April 28, 2021, at 12:00pm CST. This presentation will focus on metallography ...

From Buehler 20 Apr 2021

JEOL USA Welcomes New Managing Director, Hidetaka Sawada

EOL USA welcomes a new Managing Director, Dr. Hidetaka Sawada, to its Peabody, Massachusetts office this April. Dr. Sawada is a world-renowned expert in aberration-corrected electron microscopy.

From JEOL USA, Inc. 20 Apr 2021

Coxem introduces the SELPA Scanning Electron Particle Analyzer

Coxem is pleased to announce the newest addition to their line of electron microscopy-based analysis tools, the SELPA particle analyzer. Designed to accommodate large samples (up to 100 mm in diameter), SELPA r...

From COXEM Co. Ltd. 19 Apr 2021

New, Potentially Paradigm-Shifting High Performance Thermoelectric Compound

Thermoelectrics power an extensive range of items by directly converting heat into electricity—spanning from NASA’s Perseverance rover now exploring Mars to travel coolers that chill beverages.

19 Apr 2021

Study Shows Abnormal Enhancement of a-Particle Clustering in Uranium Isotopes

In nuclear physics research, the discovery of new isotopes with extreme proton/neutron numbers is always fascinating.

19 Apr 2021

Industrial Applications of Powder Rheology Webinar Series

Scientists and engineers at Evonik, one of the world’s leading speciality chemicals companies, have been successfully using the FT4 Powder Rheometer® for many years, Freeman Technology are delighted that they w...

From Freeman Technology 19 Apr 2021