Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS) flies a small Cessna aircraft 10,000 feet overhead. The surveillance planes are loaded up with specialized 192 megapixel cameras that could watch 25 square miles of territory, and it provided something no ordinary helicopter or police plane could: a Tivo-style time machine that could watch and record movements of every person …
A first automated reel-to-reel fluidic self-assembly process for macroelectronic applications is reported. This system enables high speed assembly of semiconductor dies (15,000 chips per hour using a 2.5 cm wide web) over large area substrates. The optimization of the system (hour 99% assembly yield) is based on identification, calculation, and optimization of the relevant forces. …
France and Spain are relatively close in the amount of per capita emissions but French people get to use 50% more energy than each person in Spain. The Swedes get to use even more energy than the French but Sweden has combined hydro and nuclear power that is even higher than the French ratio of …
Surviving in bad housing, without electricity and with unsafe cooking is Rich World Reality TV and is an entertaining challenge for a few weeks or months. However, it sucks badly for the everyday life of the worlds poorest billions. The unsafe cooking with indoor smoke and air pollution causes more cancer and disease. The lack …
The crystal ball is murky beyond the 7-nm node. Transistors made with carbon nanotubes as the channel material hold special promise because of the ultra-thin body of the carbon nanotube of about one nanometer while at the same time retaining excellent carrier transport properties. No other bulk semiconductor has this unique advantage, which allows the …
Will China consume energy like Europeans or follow the more excessive American model? And will China’s energy consumption continue to be dominated by coal? China is developing coal gasification and may develop deep coal resources. China will build out a lot of nuclear power. Per-capita energy consumption in China, which has risen by over 5% …
computer modeling by NASA scientists shows that friction could be the key to survival for some distant Earth-sized planets traveling in dangerous orbits. The findings are consistent with observations that Earth-sized planets appear to be very common in other star systems. Although heat can be a destructive force for some planets, the right amount of …
Drawing inspiration from the structure of bones and bamboo, researchers have found that by gradually changing the internal structure of metals they can make stronger, tougher materials that can be customized for a wide variety of applications – from body armor to automobile parts. “If you looked at metal under a microscope you’d see that …
By the end of 2013, China had built a high speed rail network of over 10,000 route-km, far exceeding that in any other country and larger than the network in the entire European Union. It has been accomplished at a cost which is at most two-thirds of that in other countries. According to a World …
Developing countries need over $1 trillion a year in infrastructure. The figure greatly exceeded private-sector investment of about $150 billion a year. China, which aired the idea of creating the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in October to fund projects in Asia, has said it would likely be the largest shareholder in the bank, with a …
Applied Materials has plans to get to 3 nanometer features. FinFET scaling requires precision control of materials * CMP: precision through in-situ process control * Dielectrics: composition tuning * Junction: optimized activation * Metal gate: multi Vt by metal gate composition and implant * Metal gate: improved materials to control resistance at scaled CD * …