News tagged with manufacturing technologies

LEDs on silicon can reduce production costs

A new manufacturing technology is expected to greatly reduce the cost of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the future. For the first time ever, researchers at the Siemens subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A TV 4 times sharper than HD

Now that you've got a high-definition TV, you may want to start saving up for a super-high-definition one.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 48

Fujitsu develops world's first technology for retrieving 3D CAD models with partially similar shapes

Fujitsu researchers have developed a technology for retrieving partially similar models from stored 3D CAD models.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The amazing technology that crafted the Webb Telescope technology

The creation of the next generation James Webb Space Telescope was only possible as a result of imagining and developing the industrial machines that would make it a reality. In the near future, some of that ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study: One-quarter of high-tech jobs lost from US in decade

More than a quarter of the nation's high-tech manufacturing jobs were lost in the past decade, according to a new government study.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

IBM to produce Micron's hybrid memory cube in debut of first commercial, 3D chip-making capability

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Micron Technology, Inc. announced today that Micron will begin production of a new memory device built using the first commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employ through-silicon ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 5

CNSE develops innovative laser-enabled electronic packaging technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Small. Fast. Precise. A new electronics manufacturing technology developed at NDSU’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering eliminates challenges facing conventional packaging techniques and shows ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

What drives IT performance?

Going online was once a considerable achievement for a business. Now it's a given and what makes for success is how well a business exploits its online capabilities, according to a recent study.

Technology / Business

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Thailand flooding could affect PC supplies, prices

(AP) -- The personal computer industry, already reeling from depressed demand, has been dealt another setback: Massive flooding in Thailand has curtailed production of a critical component - computer storage ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Revolutionary conducting polymer enables silicon use as next generation of lithium-ion battery anodes

Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, in smart phones, laptops, an array of other consumer electronics, and the newest electric cars. Good as they are, they could be much better, especially when it comes to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Technology gives mixed meaning to labor day celebration

This Labor Day, with unemployment hovering above 9 percent, workers are confronting an enigma. Although there are one-third fewer factory workers than there were only 10 years ago, manufacturing in the United ...

Technology / Business

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 8

An impermeable wrap for future electronics

A moisture-resistant coating that extends the lifetime and reliability of plastic electronic devices, such as organic solar cells or flexible displays, has garnered the intense interest of developers of next-generation ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New file format will help 3-D printing progress

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly approved standard for 3-D printing file interchange will greatly enhance 3-D printing capabilities, says Cornell's Hod Lipson, who led the development of the standard.

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Toyota demos 'Window to the World' vehicle back seat smart window technology (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Designers from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and engineers from Toyota have been working together and have come up with a unique and innovative concept they call the "Window ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 14 | with audio podcast report

Argonne electrifies energy storage research

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Argonne National Laboratory is working in overdrive to develop advanced energy storage technologies to aid the growth of a nascent U.S. battery manufacturing industry, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2