News tagged with micro components

DIY micro-technology for SMEs

A European project has developed a one-stop shop to support companies, especially SMEs, in the rapid design and manufacture of novel micro-devices for use in applications ranging from medical diagnosis to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Flame virus a new age cyber spy tool

The Flame computer virus that smoldered undetected for years in Middle Eastern energy facilities confirmed fears that the world has entered a new age of cyber espionage and sabotage.

Technology / Internet

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency

Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to 50 percent efficiencies ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 40 | with audio podcast

Frequency stabilization in nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators

Using Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) expertise in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices, a new strategy for engineering low-frequency noise oscillators capitalizes on the intrinsic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Making microscopic machines using metallic glass

Researchers in Ireland have developed a new technology using materials called bulk metallic glasses to produce high-precision molds for making tiny plastic components. The components, with detailed microscopically patterned ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Neutron scattering charts moves of memory-shape alloys that change structure in response to environmental cues

(Phys.org) -- Shape-memory alloys (SMAs) are an engineer's dream, able to shape-shift spontaneously to accommodate changing operating conditions. A research team from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rapid testing of food quality

Whether fruit, meat or cheese - the quality of food is not always as consumers would like it to be. But, in future, a spectrometer will allow them to gage the quality of food before they buy it. No bigger ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The human cost of economic policy

New research will bring social scientists closer to uncovering the economic basis of a “gigantic human catastrophe” that followed the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

International team to demonstrate first heralded single-photon generation from a silicon chip

An international consortium of researchers has overcome an important barrier to the generation of single photons using a tiny, chip-scale device constructed from the most widely used material underpinning ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New generation of ultra-small and high-precision lasers emerges

Ultra fast, robust, stable, and high precision: these are some of the characteristics of a new laser developed by an international research team. This ultra-small laser paves the way for a new generation of highly powerful, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New fluorescent biosensor reveals mechanism critical to immune system amplification

Using a new fluorescent biosensor they developed, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how a key set of immune cells exchange information during their coordinated assault on invading pathogens. The immune ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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