A new perspective article from NIST and collaborators highlights a critical but often underrated piece of the semiconductor revolution: the “soft” polymer-based packaging materials that hold advanced chips together that are emerging as important factors for reliability, performance, and cost.
Exosens, France, extends its technology portfolio by signing an agreement to acquire Phasics, France, leader in high performance cameras based solutions for optical metrology.
The NASA Laboratories, Development and Testing Division provides science and engineering services to NASA programs and projects, contractor partners, and external customers such as other government agencies, aerospace companies, and academia.
Flaws in the pool deck are thought to be the preliminary cause of the devastating collapse of a condominium in Surfside, Florida, that killed 98. Recent test results by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency leading the investigation of the 2021 tragedy, reinforces the theory that the failure started in the pool deck area rather than in the tower itself. NIST released new findings this week.
Scientists in Japan have uncovered unusual quantum behavior in “heavy” electrons within the crystalline compound CeRhSn, which could one day support advances in quantum computing. These electrons appear to carry hundreds of times their normal mass—not due to their intrinsic properties, but because of strong interactions with other particles in the material that slow them […]
