Many recent big technological advances in computing, communications, energy, and biology have relied on nanoparticles. It can be hard to determine the best nanomaterials for these applications, however, because observing nanoparticles in action requires high spatial resolution in messy, dynamic environments.
Continue readingNanosteel, Providence, has delivered its first advanced high strength steel (AHSS) sheet to General Motors for initial evaluation of its role in vehicle lightweighting to meet rising global fuel-economy regulations.
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Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., announces that it has been selected by Honeybee Robotics to provide heat treating for the robotic Venus explorer on drive train components comprised of a specialized alloy, Ferrium C61.
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NanoSteel, a leader in nanostructured steel materials, delivered its first advanced high strength steel (AHSS) to General Motors for initial testing.
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EOS, Germany, is participating in this year’s Hanover Fair (April 25-29 2016). Within the scope of the Solutions Area Lightweight Design, which is part of “Industrial Supply”—the international leading trade fair for innovative supply and lightweight solutions
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Jolting a super-stretchy, self-healing material with an electrical field causes it to twitch or pulse in a muscle-like fashion. The polymer can also stretch to 100 times its original length, and even repair itself if punctured.
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Nature’s toolkit includes its still-matchless ability to effortlessly assemble proteins, membranes, and other complex structures from parts lists of atoms, molecules and particles of various sizes and shapes.
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Quantum Focus Instruments, Vista, Calif., announces that Innovative Circuits Engineering, a Silicon Valley integrated circuit test services business, has expanded its semiconductor failure analysis offerings through the acquisition of a QuantumScope failure analysis microscope.
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Cadence Design Systems Inc., England, announces that Cadence Virtuoso Layout-Dependent Effects (LDE) analyzer has been qualified by United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) to support its 28HPCU process technology.
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Semi, San Jose, Calif., reports that the global semiconductor materials market decreased by 1.5% in 2015 compared to 2014, while worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 0.2 %.
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The 2016 Pittcon Heritage Award, jointly sponsored by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), has been presented to Kenji Kazato (1917-2012) and Kazuo Ito (1921- ), who led a group of scientists in Japan to develop an electron microscope.
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Ultratech Inc., San Jose, Calif., announces a follow-on order from a major foundry for its LSA101 laser spike anneal system equipped with the dual-beam option, which provides a second low-power laser that adds flexibility to chip production.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Korea, has begun mass producing the industry’s first 10-nm class 8Gb DDR4 (double-data-rate-4) DRAM chips and the modules derived from them.
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The Electronic System Design (ESD) Alliance, San Jose, Calif., and Semico Research, Phoenix, Ariz., announce that they have entered into a joint marketing agreement to work together on several business initiatives in support of the semiconductor design ecosystem.
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Amkor Technology Inc., Tempe, Ariz., announces that it has shipped 700 million RF and front-end advanced system-in-package (SIP) modules for mobile device applications.
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Bruker Corp., San Jose, Calif., and Digital Surf, France, announce that Bruker Nano Surfaces is offering Vision64 Map data analysis and reporting software, which enables streamlined access to automated reporting of advanced surface measurements in 11 languages, while ensuring compatibility across a wide range of industry standards.
Continue readingSSAB, Stockholm, introduces five steel product families tailored for production processes and maximized end-product performance: SSAB Domex, SSAB Boron, SSAB Form, SSAB Laser Plus, and SSAB Weathering.
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Flir Systems, Wilsonville, Oregon, has developed X6000sc and X8000sc series thermal imaging cameras with Lock-In, Transient, and Pulse capabilities that can resolve temperature differences as low as 1 mK for advanced inspections.
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Allegheny Technologies Inc., Pittsburgh, announces the next phase in the restructuring of its Flat Rolled Products (FRP) operations with the reduction of approximately one third of FRP’s salaried workforce through the elimination of over 250 positions.
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The DOE Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University announces that ASM Fellow Iver Anderson, Senior Metallurgist, has been inducted into the National Academy of Inventors for demonstrating a “highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating and facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.”
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Euroflex, Germany, announces that its parent company, G. Rau Group, has acquired the remaining shares of Admedes Schuessler GmbH from the co-founder Dr. Andreas Schüssler, making the G. Rau Group the sole owner.
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Using state-of-the-art theoretical methods, University of California, Santa Barbara, researchers identified a specific type of defect in the atomic structure of an LED that results in less efficient performance.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory found a potential path to further improve solar cell efficiency by understanding the competition among halogen atoms during the synthesis of sunlight-absorbing crystals.
Continue readingASM International, Materials Park, Ohio, announced an important update to the ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Database.
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The premiere of manned flights with the world’s first certified Multicopter, e-volo’s Volocopter VC200, Karlsruhe, Germany, marks a step forward in urban mobility.
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Solar Atmospheres Inc., Souderton, Pa., announces that it has become the first company to receive MedAccred critical process re-accreditation, an industry-managed critical process supply chain oversight program developed by leading medical device companies to improve device quality and enhance patient safety.
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., announces that its research team has improved the strength of a titanium alloy by producing it via powder metallurgy and heat treating it at different temperatures, then quenching in cold water.
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The University of California San Diego announces that a team of engineers has developed and tested SAM2X5-630, a type of amorphous steel with a record-breaking ability to withstand impact without deforming permanently.
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H.C. Starck, Newton, Mass., announces that it has joined the team at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence, an alliance between the industrial sector and university researchers that addresses short- and long-term needs in the heat treating and thermal processing industry.
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The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, announces that a novel 3D-printing process called selective separation sintering has won the NASA competition for a technology that could enable space travelers to build structures of crushed basalt rock and regolith found on Mars.
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