Manufacturing Bits: April 1

By Mark LaPedus - 01 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Portable laser weapons For years, the U.S. military has been developing high-energy laser (HEL) weapons. But the massive size, weight and power requirements of laser systems limit their use on many military platforms. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has made a breakthrough in its so-called Excalibur program. The program will develop laser weapons that are 10 times ligh... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: March 25

By Mark LaPedus - 25 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 0

Proving the Big Bang theory A team of cosmologists using the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole have discovered the first direct evidence of the Big Bang theory. The team includes Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University/SLAC and others. Using the BICEP2, researchers found direct evidence of a cosm... » read more

Manufacturing Bits: Jan. 14

By Mark LaPedus - 14 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

MoS2 FETs Two-dimensional materials are gaining steam in the R&D labs. The 2D materials include graphene, boron nitride (BN) and the transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). One TMD, molybdenum diselenide (MoS2), is an attractive material for use in future field-effect transistors (FETs). MoS2 has several properties, including a non-zero band gap, atomic scale thickness and pristine int... » read more

System Bits: Nov. 5

By Brian Bailey - 05 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

Silicon Photonics And Graphene The industry is looking towards silicon photonics that will increase the rate at which electronic systems can communicate with each other and reduce power consumption. Researchers at MIT, Columbia University and IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center are already a few steps beyond the traditional attempts to build optical components using materials such as Gallium ... » read more

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