Infineon Technologies AG has produced the first chips (“first silicon”) on a 300-millimeter diameter thin wafer for power semiconductors at the Villach site in Austria. This makes Infineon the first company in the world to succeed in taking this step forward. The chips now produced on a 300-millimeter thin wafer exhibit the same behavior as …
1. There is a online petition at Whitehouse.gov which encourages the obama administration to: Educate the Public Regarding Nuclear Power Supporters of nuclear energy should register at Whitehouse.gov and sign the petition and encourage others to sign it via social media and websites. 4535 additional signatures are needed by October 23. 2. ANS Nuclear Cafe …
1. Greece will miss a deficit target set just months ago in a massive bailout package, according to government draft budget figures released on Sunday, showing that drastic steps taken to avert bankruptcy may not be enough. The 2012 draft budget approved by cabinet on Sunday predicts a deficit of 8.5 percent of gross domestic …
Black paint absorbs 85% of light and a new hyperbolic metamaterial absorbs 99%. Arxiv – Darker than black: radiation-absorbing metamaterial We show that corrugated surfaces of hyperbolic metamaterials scatter light preferentially inside the media, resulting in a very low reflectance and ultimate dark appearance in the spectral range of hyperbolic dispersion. This phenomenon of fundamental …
Carnival of space 216 is up at Vintage space If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers …
The articles about Greek Default and failure/breakup of the Eurozone are increasing. Nextbigfuture had one early today and the Wall Street Journal has a new one. Wall Street Journal by Simon Nixon – The euro zone is running out of road. Greece’s budget problems have spun out of control to the point where there is …
General fusion aims to develop an acoustically driven magnetized target fusion (MTF) reactor. Two spheromaks are made to merge in the center of a 3 meter diameter sphere full of liquid lead-lithium. 200 pneumatic pistons hit the outside of the sphere and launch an inward going spherical pressure wave that focuses and compresses the merged …
A couple of months ago, the Russian physicist Maxim Chernodub showed how a powerful magnetic field can generate electrically charged ρ mesons that behave like a superconductor along the axis of the magnetic filed. And today, Igor Smolyaninov, at the University of Maryland, takes this idea a step further. Smolyaninov has turned his attention to …
Looking to nature for their muse, researchers have used a common protein to guide the design of a material that can make energy-storing hydrogen gas. The synthetic material works 10 times faster than the original protein found in water-dwelling microbes, the researchers report in the August 12 issue of the journal Science, clocking in at …
The antiproton belt is around the inner radiation belt Arxiv – The discovery of geomagnetically trapped cosmic ray antiprotons (10 pages) The existence of a significant flux of antiprotons confined to Earth’s magnetosphere has been considered in several theoretical works. These antiparticles are produced in nuclear interactions of energetic cosmic rays with the terrestrial atmosphere …
Test matrix consisting of a polymer support structure and a protein functional structure. (Image: Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Aachen) Laser light produces synthetic tissue for regenerative medicine (4 pages) Tissue engineering pursues the aim of replacing natural tissue after injuries and illnesses with implants which enable the body to regenerate itself with the …