Outokumpu Oy, Finland, announces the first-ever boat built entirely out of stainless steel. The boat was constructed and built by Swedish Steel Yachts (SSY) based in Gävle, Sweden.
Stainless steel boat much lighter than typical steel boat
Two-dimensional phosphorus provides stable semiconductor properties
Researchers at Rice University, Houston, Texas, report that semiconducting phosphorus sheets do not contain the rows of defects that reduce the electronic properties of other materials.
Intel releases new high-density modular test platform
Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., has announced the availability of its revolutionary high-density modular test (HDMT) platform.
Veeco IBD upgrade of Nexus lithography system produces no deposition defects greater than 70 nm
Veeco Instruments Inc., Plainview, N.Y., reports that its new Odyssey ion beam deposition (IBD) upgrade for the NEXUS IBD-LDD system has repeatedly produced photomask blanks with zero deposition defects larger than 70 nanometers.
Germanium-tin thin films deposited on silicon could build better infrared cameras
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville have developed an infrared detector made of thin films of GeSn semiconductor material deposited on a silicon substrate.