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..., laptops, digital cameras and many other consumer electronics products. A superior material for making TFTs, especially in the case of large screens, is polysilicon, a solid consisting of many silicon crystals joined together. To produce a uniform, defect-free, high-performance polysilicon film, workers must ...Virginia Tech inventions, creations can improve lives
...r semiconductor devices, leading to improved power electronics and industry application. The invention is also ec... and ease of design. A related patent is for power electronics packaging. Xingsheng Liu, who recently earned his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering (MSE), ...R&D yields numerous applications for conductive polymers
...plays, and aircraft cockpit displays. For now, the electronics industry will mainly benefit from the technology, using the materials in EMI shielding and electronic circuits. The detection and monitoring industries have already started using conducting polymers for sensors in electronic noses that detect environ......erox. Binghamton researchers know that small-scale electronics manufacturing means big business. The range of res...e IEEC has attracted some of the country's largest electronics companies, including IBM, ADI, and GE Corporate Research, as well as regional companies such as Univ...Diamond in the rough...and on the chip
...NA-modified diamond film that coupled with modern electronics on a silicon chip would lead to an ability to better detect biological agents. Ultimately this might lead to an early warning system for defense against biological weapons." This remarkable new film is being developed by chemists at the University ...Diamond film may enable critical new sensors for bioterror
...t provides a bridge between the world of miniature electronics and biology, which requires a chemically stable platform for biosensing. Such sensors, according to Hamers, would be about the size of a postage stamp and could be sprinkled in public places such as airports, bus depots, subways, stadiums and other p...Smart sensor technology finds tremendous potential in various industries
...alif.--February 26, 2003--Advances in miniaturized electronics and ongoing research are developing intelligent sensing devices into highly sophisticated sensors for applications in various fields including security, manufacturing processes, medicine, and research. Commercially available smart sensors and testing...Discovery of size changes of Bacillus spores may lead to simpler, faster anthrax detector
...n 5 nanometers. "We are taking advantage of modern electronics and image processing to look at the size of individual spores with very high time resolution and rapid analysis," Westphal said. In their first attempts, they found that the spores of four types of Bacillus differed significantly in size - enough to ...ARC, Varian, Inc. team up to improve water use in pulp and paper mills
...nts, vacuum technologies, and specialized contract electronics manufacturing services. These businesses serve a broad range of life science and industrial customers worldwide. The company manufactures in 15 locations in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim and employs 4,300 people. The Aquantix Group at A...Acoustic technique could disinfect medical instruments without heat or harsh chemicals
...rgy from the boundaries. They also need new power electronics and transducers that can operate continuously. Beyond sterilization of medical instruments, Cunefare also sees potential applications in the continuous treatment of water and wastewater, and potentially in low-temperature pasteurization of food produ...Lab engineers develop microelectronics for artificial retina project
...ging the delicate retinal tissue, and to integrate electronics developed by North Carolina State University. The ...as worked on "metalization" -- applying metals for electronics and electrodes to PDMS for implant devices. "It's our important contribution to this project," Krul...DNAs oscillating double helix hinders electrical conduction
...lar microelectronics. In this sort of experimental electronics the DNA molecules would have to be able to initiat...ange of reactions by means of charge transfer. The electronics specialists must now take the inefficient electrical conductivity of DNA into consideration. The DNA...PNNL celebrates arrival of powerful NMR
...ce, health care, chemical analysis, industrial and electronics customers worldwide. The company manufactures in 15 locations in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim and employs some 4,100 people. Varian Inc. had fiscal year 2001 sales of $749 million. Additional information about Varian Inc. is available at...Study to help solve health problems by understanding gene, protein behavior in cells
... Tyson said. He likened this to the change in the electronics industry: "When people were designing toasters and crystal radios," Tyson said, "they could do it without a fancy computer. Now, however, electrical circuits are so complicated, you cant guess how theyll work; you cant even write down the governing...Office of Naval Research awards $8.4M to young investigators
... Technology will investigate biologically-inspired electronics in order to create building blocks for future hybrid analog-digital computing. The research will extend the work on silicon cochlea to include nonlinear dynamics and feedback, extend the visual motion sensors to wide-dynamic range, and develop spike...... Advances in computational network modeling, and electronics have permitted development of a bizarre new class of truly biomimetic beasts. But it isn't as easy as merely taking apart an animal or plant and copying what you see. "Evolution doesn't always come up with the best solution from an engineer's pers...Drugs, electronics, and 'green' catalysts: The chemical year in review
...nt bacteria susceptible to the drug. Molecular electronics came one step closer to reality when Pennsylvania State University researchers developed a technique for growing wires measuring just a few nanometers in width and positioning them with 1-nanometer accuracy. The approach could make it possible to hoo...Stanford engineer studies neural prosthetics
...itted signals from neurons in the PRR to a bank of electronics that determined whether the monkey intended to reach to the right or left. A computer then automatically used the interpreted signals to move the cursor in the appropriate direction. The monkey eventually learned that it could successfully complete t...Scientists design molecules that mimic nanostructure of bone
...materials inspired by bone that could be useful in electronics or photonics." In the study reported in Science, the researchers created self-assembled nanofibers that resemble the collagen fibrils of real bone in shape and size. (A nanofiber, which measures about 8 nanometers in diameter, is 10,000 times smaller...'Smart bandage' diagnoses danger before infection takes hold
...on their personal health with the help of advanced electronics like Miller's bandage, computers and the Internet. Ultimately, once you scan your bandage, the reader will connect to a home PC responsible for monitoring residents' health, reporting what kind of bacteria is present. The house will check a medical ...