Physicists at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln recently teamed up to craft the first magneto-electric transistor, a new spin on the transistor that could help feed the world’s ever-growing appetite for digital memory while slicing up to 5% of the energy from its power-hungry diet.
Intel celebrated the grand opening of the latest expansion of D1X, its leading-edge factory in Hillsboro, Ore.
Rigaku, Japan, recently launched the world’s first turnkey electron diffractometer in the form of the XtaLAB Synergy-ED, and researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham have published the first crystal structures determined by the XtaLAB Synergy-ED in the-high profile journal Nature Communications.
The new 72DL PLUS ultrasonic thickness gauge from Olympus, Waltham, Ma., delivers precision thickness measurements at high speed in a portable, easy-to-use device.
This vintage video about Nitinol metal engines demonstrates early experiments with solid-state heat engines that work on a very low temperature difference.
