Hitachi High-Tech launches the AFM100 and AFM100 Plus atomic force microscopes

Published: August 19, 2021

Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Japan, announced the launch of its AFM100 and AFM100 Plus systems – entry-level and intermediate-level models of Hitachi’s compact and versatile atomic force microscopes.

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Picosun delivers ALD technology for volume manufacturing of optical semiconductor devices

Published: August 19, 2021

Picosun Group, Finland, delivers cutting-edge atomic layer deposition technology for volume manufacturing of optical semiconductor devices.

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An energy-efficient way of enriching hydrogen isotopes in silicon

Published: August 19, 2021

A team of scientists at Nagoya City University, Japan, in collaboration with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Kyoto University, have found an energy-efficient strategy to enrich silicon surfaces using a dilute deuterium solution.

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Development of a Residual Stress Standard

Published: August 19, 2021

In the past ten to fifteen years, significant progress toward the understanding and management of residual stresses in metallic structure has been made under the auspices of numerous Metals Affordability Initiative (MAI) projects, Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) projects, USAF program funded projects, and many others. In January 2020, the ASM International Technical Committee on Residual Stress formed a subcommittee on residual stress standards development, whose goal is to promote the development of standards and specifications for the measurement, modeling, understanding and management of residual stress

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Researchers achieve extraordinary spatial resolution for in-situ atomic resolution TEM using new Luminary micro technique

Published: August 12, 2021

Materials science researchers in Japan succeeded in recording atomic-resolution in-situ movies of growing carbon nanotubes and onion-shaped carbon nano structures achieving extraordinary in-situ transmission electron microscope results using a new Luminary micro laser technique.

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Deep learning streamlines industrial image analysis for material inspections

Published: August 12, 2021

Olympus Stream image analysis software from Olympus, Waltham, Mass., now leverages the power of artificial intelligence to bring next-generation image segmentation to industrial microscope inspections.

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The hidden culprit killing lithium-metal batteries from the inside

Published: August 12, 2021

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, N.M., in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the University of Oregon, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, published the first ever nanoscale images taken inside intact lithium-metal coin batteries.

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Finding the cause of a fatal problem in rocket engine combustors

Published: August 12, 2021

A team of researchers from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency used advanced time-series analyses based on complex systems to find out the cause of fatal problems in rocket engine combustors.

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JEOL and SCiLS sign a distribution agreement for SCiLS Lab MVS software

Published: July 18, 2021

JEOL Ltd., Peabody, Mass., and SCiLS, Germany, a division of Bruker Daltonics, have concluded a non-exclusive, worldwide distribution agreement for SCiLS Lab MVS software.

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Next-generation cartesian geometry EDXRF spectrometer set to transform XRF technology

Published: July 18, 2021

Applied Rigaku Technologies Inc., Austin, Texas, a division of Rigaku Corp., introduces NEX CG II, a powerful second-generation benchtop energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer.

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