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July '10: Quantum Computing Gets Closer
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By Abby Vogel, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Despite a steady improvement in the speed of conventional computers during the last few decades, certain types of problems remain computationally difficult to solve. Quantum computers hold the promise of offering a new route to solving some of these problems, such as breaking encryptions ...
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June '10: Sandia Upgrades Battery Abuse Testing Lab
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Albuquerque, NM — Sandia National Laboratories is receiving and using $4.2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus) funds to modify and enhance its existing Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab), with the goal of developing low-cost batteries for electric and plug-in hybrid ...
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May '10:Fuel Cell-Powered Mobile Lighting for Academy Awards
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Livermore, CA — A team led by Sandia National Laboratories made a cameo appearance at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards® ceremony in Los Angeles. They didn't win any Oscars, but instead provided some fuel-cell powered outdoor lighting.
Sandia, The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Altergy Systems, Multiquip Inc., and others developed a novel mobile lighting system...
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March '10:Electric Cars: the Next 10 Years
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By Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx, Cambridge, UK
A radical change in attitude to electric vehicles has occurred in 2009, resulting in huge new financing from governments and tough new laws that will boost sales. Now all car makers must offer electric versions in their lineups or face oblivion as governments finally get serious about ...
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February '10: Micro-Size Si PVs Developed at Sandia
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Albuquerque, NM — Almost microscopic in size, tiny photovoltaic cells have been developed by Sandia National Laboratories scientists and may well revolutionize the solar cell industry. The tiny glitter-sized photovoltaics could turn a person into a walking solar battery charger if they were fastened ...
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December 09: Solar Energy Comes in Many Flavors
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By Tom AdamsThe U.S. rooftop solar industry is, at the moment, famously in a slump. When business picks up again, the U.S. will be in a position — perhaps — to begin to catch up with Europe in rooftop solar power generation.
Europe has the advantage of very generous governmental incentives for homeowners to install solar. As Raju Yenamandra, head of sales for North America for SolarWorld USA...
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October 09 - Creating Faster, More Functional Semiconductors
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New York, NY — Fifty-two years ago, students at CCNY (City College of New York) began participating in experiments with a nuclear reactor that was ensconced within the bowels of the Lewisohn Stadium — scene of sports events and summer concerts by the New York Philharmonic. (Upper tier concert tickets were 50 cents.) It was the year of the Sputnik, and American scientists were hurrying to overhaul our space program. Today the stadium is long gone, and so is the reactor, but CCNY professors are involved in...
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September 09 - Breakthrough May Bring New Gen PC Boards
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Syracuse, NY — Circuit boards may get a whole new pedigree and production methodology because of an amazing discovery by PCB veteran Robert Tarzwell working in his laboratory at DMRPCB — literally a cottage industry site. It's the stuff of Silicon Valley garage startups: Tarzwell has made a momentous ...
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August 09 - NIST: Passing the Neutron Science Torch
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Gaithersburg, MD — What do the mystery of how proteins fold, the unexpected behavior of nanoparticles, and the key to making hydrogen fuel cells have in common? All can be investigated with beams of slow-moving neutrons — and scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST ...
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July 09 - Graphene Nano Wires May Help IC Performance
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By John Toon, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA — The unique properties of thin layers of graphite — known as graphene — make the material attractive for a wide range of potential electronic devices. Researchers have now experimentally demonstrated the potential for another graphene application: replacing copper ...
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June 09 - Semicon Firms: Meeting Economic Challenges
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By Scott Grant (scott.grant@accenture.com)
When the global recession ends, the semiconductor industry will be a different world with different competitive dynamics and different priorities than when the recession began. Faced with this reality, semiconductor companies on the path to achieving high performance need to consider ...
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September 08 - Wind Farms Proliferating Worldwide
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By Tom Adams
Wind farms, one of the most viable candidates to replace parts of our oil-dependent technologies, are growing in numbers in the U.S., and have the potential to become more efficient than they are today. One of the newest is a modest farm of five 1.5 megawatt wind turbines located in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Completed in 2005, the Atlantic City site ...
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Cold Atoms in Focused Ion Beams to Replace Hot Gallium
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Gaithersburg, MD — Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a radical new method of focusing a stream of ions into a point as small as one nanometer. Because of the versatility of their approach — it can be used with a wide range of ions tailored to ...
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Global Hawk: 16-Ton High-Flying UAV
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By Walter Salm
Edwards AFB, CA — Highly sophisticated electronics have given rise to a new breed of war machine called the Global Hawk UAV. We have gotten so accustomed to UAVs (Unmanned Airborne Vehicles) that Marines carried in backpacks, that a full-size jet aircraft packing some ordnance does ...
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Quantum Memory Gets Closer
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By John Toon
Atlanta, GA — Physicists have taken a significant step toward creation of quantum networks by establishing a new record for the length of time that quantum information can be stored in and retrieved from an ensemble of very cold atoms. Though the information remains usable for just ...
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Green Power: Converting Waste Heat
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Durham, NC — Generating clean power from waste heat is gaining significant attention worldwide. One way is to use thermoelectric modules to convert the heat energy directly to electricity. There is a direct link between TE module performance, in terms of efficiency, and the applicability of TEs in ...
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July 08 Issue- New Iron-Based Superconductors
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Gaithersburg, MD — Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a new class of iron-based superconductors discovered earlier this year shares similar unusual magnetic properties with previously known high-temperature superconductors based on ...
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March 08 Issue - Schott Solar Building New Plant in Albuquerque
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Santa Fe, NM — Schott AG of Mainz, Germany (Schott) is invading the U.S. big time with a new solar power generator manufacturing plant being built in New Mexico. Schott Solar, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Schott AG, will construct a new solar energy technology production facility in the Mesa del Sol region of Albuquerque, NM....
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February 08 Issue - Innovations Reap Huge Savings for Semiconductors
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Gaithersburg, MD — A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows that investment in measurement science has and will continue to have a dramatic effect on innovation, productivity, growth and competitiveness in and among high technology sectors. The report, "Economic Impact of Measurement...
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