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FRANKLIN PARK, Ill, and YOKOHAMA, Japan, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rubicon Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: RBCN), a leading vertically integrated provider of sapphire substrates and products, announced today it will exhibit large diameter sapphire products for LED wafer production, including the 200 kg sapphire Super Boule, at the upcoming LED Japan/Strategies in Light Conference in Yokohama, Japan, held on September 16 and 17, 2009. Conference attendees can visit Rubicon in Booth M4....
 University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis."We have shown that it is numerically possible to cloak objects of any shape that lie outside the cloaking devices, not just...
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), the world leader in the production and sale of polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayers, today announced that the company's Saflex website was awarded first place, supplier division by USGlass Magazine in their second annual "Best of the Web" Contest. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081029/AQW096LOGO) Launched on May 13, the newly redesigned site was developed to improve communication with the automotive and...
A Redesigned User-Friendly Site for the Glazing Industry Includes New Color Studio ST. LOUIS, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA) today announced the launch of www.saflex.com , a redesigned web site for its Saflex business unit designed to improve communication with the automotive and architectural glazing industries and with solar module makers in the photovoltaic industry. The newly launched website will debut at the Japanese Society of Automotive Engineers...
Many households harbor a threat to young children that safety regulations, surprisingly, have overlooked: glass-topped tables and tables with glass panels. A review by Children's Hospital Boston, in collaboration with Consumers Union, nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, finds that glass-table injuries aren't as rare as one might think, and that many could have been avoided had tempered glass been used.The report appears in the March issue of Pediatric Emergency Care. Consumer tips and...
By reversing a process that converts electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and transistors are built.Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have for the first time converted the highest frequency sounds into light by reversing a process that converts electrical signals to sound. Commonly used piezo-electric speakers, such as those found in a cell phone, operate at low frequencies that human...
The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard.In the morning, the bricks will be covered with snow and barely discernible. The snowflakes will have filled every vacant space between and around the bricks.What you will see, says Ivan Biaggio, resembles a phenomenon that, when it occurs at the smallest of scales on an integrated optical circuit, could hasten the day when the Internet works at superfast speeds.Biaggio,...
Scientists can easily explain the structural order that makes steel and aluminum out of molten metal. And they have discovered the molecular changes that take place as water turns to ice. But, despite the fact that glass blowers have been plying their trade since the first century BC, we have only just begun to understand what makes molten glass solid.One hundred and fifty years after the construction of Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition, scientists at The University of Nottingham...
Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact opposite. Their findings will be published online in the prestigious international journal Science on January 22."It is counter-intuitive but the gold got harder instead of softer," says Miller. Can you imagine a blacksmith heating up gold to pound it thinner, only to find it...
U.S. scientists have discovered polystyrenes, when reduced to nanoscale, don't function under the laws of fundamental polymer physics. "Although applications for nanoscale polymer flow are being widely investigated, the underlying, fundamental polymer physics is not," said University of Illinois Professor William King. "Understanding the way a polymer flows during nanoscale molding or imprinting processes is essential for designing new, nanoscale manufacturing processes. King and colleagues...
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Corundum is the crystalline form of aluminium oxide and one of the rock-forming minerals. Corundum is naturally clear, but can have different colors when impurities are added. Transparent specimens are used as gems, called ruby if red, while all other colors are called sapphire. The word corundum comes from the Hindi kurand. The oxygen atoms in corundum are arranged in a hexagonal close-packing, with the smaller aluminium atoms occupying 2/3 of the octahedral gaps. The coordination of the...
Electromagnetic Spectrum -- The electromagnetic spectrum describes the various types of electromagnetic radiation based on their wavelengths. Radio, representing wavelengths from a few feet to well over a mile, is at one end of the spectrum. Gamma ray radiation is at the other end: the wavelength of the harder types is so short, in the subatomic range, that we do not have instruments capable of directly measuring it. While the above classification scheme is generally accurate, in...
