South Korean Inventors Develop Pyramid-Shaped Near Field Probe

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 27, 2007 ;     298 words ......invention includes a probe body and metal films. The probe body is constructed in the...released by the Patent Office, said: "The metal films are symmetrically coated on two predetermined...wave induced on the surfaces of the metal films due to the electromagnetic wave to progress...

South Korean Inventors Develop Multi-Layer Printed Circuit Board...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 15, 2007 ;     316 words ......a resist layer to each of the first metal films to form a base member. A first connection...then be formed on each of the first metal films, and a second connection portion may...portions, and, in turn, to the first metal films. Specific portions of the second metal...

Arizona Inventors Develop Aluminum Based Metal Film Formation Process

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 3, 2008 ;     253 words ......Office: "The corrosion of aluminum-based metal films may be minimized by applying a lactate-containing solution to the aluminum-based metal films before the aluminum-based metal films are etched. The lactate-containing solution...

Fashioning see-through metal. (Chemistry)

Science News;  July 8, 1989 ;     391 words ......rethink that last one. The possibility of designing transparent metal films became clear several years ago to scientists at AT&T Bell...voids between cylinders. The result: More light gets through metal films with this type of micro-structure than with a more continuous...

DEPOSITION METHOD PATENTED

Advanced Ceramics Report;  October 1, 1991 ;     354 words ......transport-chemical deposition (SFT-CD). A range of ceramic and metal films have been deposited by this process. For ceramics, films of...radicals and ions from the N2 serve as oxidizing agents. The metal films are deposited from metal coordination compounds dissolved...

Japanese Inventor Develops Reflective Liquid Crystal Display

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 1, 2008 ;     302 words ......has first and second light blocking metal films that are formed one upon another between...and under each of the light blocking metal films, to block part of read light, which...the first and second light blocking metal films covers the openings formed between adjacent...

Flooding light through tiny holes. (research shows that metal film with...

Science News;  February 28, 1998 ;     342 words ......their findings in the Feb. 12 Nature. The researchers used metal films, from 100 to 500 nanometers thick, with holes 150 nm in diameter...ranging from 200 to 1,200 nm in wavelength, the perforated metal films selectively transmitted light with wavelengths up to five...

Optical Metrology Adapts for Nanoscale Measurements.

Semiconductor International;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......nanodimensions. Although measuring thin metal films is difficult, there may be an easy solution. 'They've looked at very thin metal films and understood how to overcome some...measuring very thin, polycrystalline metal films, as well as defining the impact of grain...

A NEARLY INVISIBLE COMPANY; ITHACA'S EVAPORATED METAL FILMS CORP. WORKS...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  January 11, 2004 ;     661 words ......ask the people who work at Evaporated Metal Films Corp., of Ithaca. This 68-year-old company...Miller is president of the Evaporated Metal Films Corp., of Ithaca. Their company makes...TECHNICIAN Mike Maxwell of Evaporated Metal Films Corp. works to evaporate a dielectric...

Facing a hairy electronics problem.(TECHNOLOGY)(electroplated metal...

Science News;  January 7, 2006 ;     307 words ......power plant. The culprits aren't errant facial hairs: They're metal filaments that spontaneously sprout from electroplated metal films in electronic devices, where they can short out circuits. By tracking properties of such films for up to a year, researchers...

Metals' 'memory' could make car dents history

The Hindustan Times;  April 2, 2007 ;     449 words ......have found that adding heat to bent metal films having the right microstructure returns...found that when heat is added to bent metal films having the right microstructure, they...If the grains that constitute the metal films in these devices are between 50 and...

Dynasil announces acquisition of Evaporated Metal Films

The Business Journal - Central New York;  September 1, 2006 ;     220 words ......synthetic fused silica and other optical materials - has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the stock of Ithaca-based Evaporated Metal Films Corp. (EMF) for a cash payment at closing. Financial terms of the acquisition were undisclosed. EMF produces optical thinfilm...

TECHNIQUE CREATES METAL MEMORY AND COULD LEAD TO VANISHING DENTS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 29, 2007 ;     536 words ......permanent. But, when heat is added to bent metal films having the right microstructure, the...higher the temperature, the sooner the metal films revert. "It's as though the metal has...If the grains that constitute the metal films in these devices are between 50 and...

In Situ Amplified Chemiluminescent Detection of DNA and Immunoassay of IgG...

Clinical Chemistry;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......displaying far stronger catalytic activity on luminol CL than that of Au(III). Some methods based...and found their catalytic efficiency on luminol CL to be 100-fold greater than that of spherical...display stronger catalytic activity on luminol CL than on Au(III) (17). As reported ...

Keep molds running longer: new low-friction, high-hardness coatings and...

Plastics Technology;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......raising release performance by a similar amount. The thin metal films can also reduce maintenance and extend tool life. Sources...as thermal conductivity or heat dissipation. Some of these metal films are used to harden the surface of softer heat-conductive metals...