Hysitron Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., has received an R&D 100 Award for its xSol high-temperature stage, which enables high-resolution nanomechanical measurements over a broad temperature and humidity range.
GE Aviation, Cincinnati, Ohio, has announced plans to bring high-volume additive manufacturing to its facility in Auburn, Alabama.
Steel Dynamics Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Severstal Columbus (Mississippi) from OAO Severstal, Russia.
Polarization charges in ferroelectric materials are screened by equal amounts of surface charges with opposite polarity under ambient conditions. Researchers from the Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne’s Nanoscience & Technology and Materials Science divisions (Argonne, Ill.), and Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan), have shown that scraping, collecting, and quantifying surface screen charges reveals the underlying polarization domain structure at high speed, a technique dubbed charge gradient microscopy (CGM).
Digital Surf (Besançon,France), a leading provider of surface imaging and metrology software for microscopes and profilers, and Image Metrology (Hørsholm,Denmark), a leading provider of nano- and microscale image processing software, announced that they are joining forces. Digital Surf acquired 100% interest in Image Metrology. Both companies will continue to operate independently under their existing management.
