The European Space Agency, Paris, has joined forces with other leading research institutions and more than 180 European companies in a billion-euro effort to develop new types of metals and manufacturing techniques.
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.
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 Corp., Santa Clara, Calif., has announced the availability of its revolutionary high-density modular test (HDMT) platform.
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.
