Samsung Develops World's First 40-inch a-Si-based OLED for TVs
May 19, 2005 |
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Samsung Electronics today announced that it has successfully developed the world's first single-sheet, 40-inch active matrix OLED for emissive flat panel TV applications. The high-definition-compatible OLED ...
From electronics to photonics; Modulating light with electricity
May 19, 2005 |
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Much of our electronics could soon be replaced by photonics, in which beams of light flitting through microscopic channels on a silicon chip replace electrons in wires. Photonic chips would carry more data, ...
New Kodak Easyshare V-Series Digital Cameras Unveiled
May 19, 2005 |
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Fresh for the summer season, KODAK EASYSHARE V-series digital cameras were unveiled today in cities around the globe. Two models -- each smaller than a deck of playing cards -- are designed for trendsetters ...
World’s Most Precise 'Hard X-Ray' Nanoprobe Activated
May 19, 2005 |
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Marking a major step forward in using X-rays to study some of the smallest phenomena in nature, the world’s first “hard X-ray” nanoprobe beamline was activated on March 15, 2005. The unique nanoprobe is one ...
Automatic tire pressure maintenance system
May 19, 2005 |
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The National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories recently provided three engineering concepts to small business owner Dale Petty for a gadget that keeps car tires inflated to the right pressure. ...
Los Angeles 'big squeeze' continues, straining earthquake faults
May 19, 2005 |
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Northern metropolitan Los Angeles is being squeezed at a rate of five millimeters [0.2 inches] a year, straining an area between two earthquake faults that serve as geologic bookends north and south of the ...
New discovery sheds new light on gamma-ray bursts
May 19, 2005 |
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A new type of light was detected from a recent gamma-ray burst, as discovered by Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA scientists using both burst-detection satellites and a Los Alamos-based robotic telescope. In a pap ...
Research on Sumatran Earthquakes Uncovers New Mysteries about Workings of Earth
May 19, 2005 |
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The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26 was an unmitigated human disaster. But three new papers by an international group of experts show that the huge data return could help scientists better understand extremely large ...
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Particles Produce Unusual Radio Flash
May 19, 2005 |
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New radio telescope sees and hears brightest radio blasts on the sky Using the LOPES experiment, a prototype of the new high-tech radio telescope LOFAR to detect ultra-high energy cosmic ray particles, a grou ...
Panasonic Develops Coin-size Low-Power Bidirectional Wireless Module
May 19, 2005 |
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Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, today unveiled its ultra-small low-power wireless module by incorporating a radio circuit and a microcomputer onto a ...
IBM and Toppan to Jointly Develop Advanced Photomasks for 45nm
May 19, 2005 |
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Goal Is Early Establishment of 45nm Photomask Production Process IBM Corporation and Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. today announced an agreement to jointly develop photomasks for next generation, 45-nanometer semiconductor manufac ...
Scientists Find Unusual Use of Metals in the Ocean
May 19, 2005 |
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Cadmium, commonly considered a toxic metal and often used in combination with nickel in batteries, has been found to have a biological use as a nutrient in the ocean, the first known biological use of cadmium ...
NEMS device detects the mass of a single DNA molecule
May 19, 2005 |
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Some people are never satisfied. First, nanotechnology researchers at Cornell University built a device so sensitive it could detect the mass of a single bacterium--about 665 femtograms. Then they built one ...
Smarter machines for space missions
May 19, 2005 |
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NASA has tapped Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) to lead a $9.6 million effort to give machines enough computer-based "intelligence" to deal safely with component failure or malfunction, with minimal human help, ...
Flexible tactile sensors could help robots work better
May 19, 2005 |
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A robot's sensitivity to touch could be vastly improved by an array of polymer-based tactile sensors that has been combined with a robust signal-processing algorithm to classify surface textures. The work, performed by a ...
