Applied Physics

COVENTRY, England, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- FARO, the world leader in portable computer-aided measurement hardware and software, today announced that it has enhanced its Quantum, Platinum and Fusion FaroArm product lines in order to meet the needs of a wider range of applications within its industrial customer base. Its popular Quantum FaroArm series will now be offered in 1.8m (6-ft.), 2.4m (8-ft.), 3.0m (10-ft.), and 3.7m (12-ft.) lengths, achieving up to 30-percent higher accuracy over the Platinum FaroArm series, the Company's previous generation of technology. The additional sizes,…

CAMBRIDGE, England, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - Seamless digital photo collaging at your fingertips with AutoCollage. Microsoft Research today launched AutoCollage 2008, a desktop application that allows users to easily compile a set of individual photographs into one seamless collage. In just a few clicks, people can transform an unwieldy group of photos -- for example, of an event such as a wedding or holiday -- into a single collage image that can be printed; used in e-postcards, web pages or desktop backgrounds; or e-mailed to family and friends. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/…

LONDON, September 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Doosan Babcock jointly with Doosan Heavy Industries of Korea have announced a Global Technology Licensing Agreement with a leading Canadian CO2 management technology company, HTC Purenergy Inc. ("HTC"). In conjunction with the Licensing Agreement, Doosan Babcock and Doosan Heavy Industries will subscribe to a Private Placement for an approximate 15% equity share ownership in HTC and seat on HTC's Board of Directors with the investment of CDN$10 million. The Global Technology Licensing Agreement for HTC's carbon capture technology now means Doosan Babcock…

NEW YORK, September 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Briefs Media Group, (TBMG), a leading B2B publisher of content for engineering and technical professionals announced today the sixth annual National Nano Engineering Conference 2008 (NNEC), the premier event focused on current and future developments in engineering innovations at the nanoscale, as well as the commercialization of nanotechnology. The event is now open for registration. Limited press badges will also be available. For more information, please visit www.nasatech.com/nano. The NNEC returns to Boston on November 12th & 13th at the…

KIEV, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Lugansk Energy Interconnection Company LLC, one of the five largest electrical energy suppliers in Ukraine, a part of the Energy Standard Group, reports that it has received permission from the Ukrainian Anti-Monopoly Committee to purchase more than 50% of Teploelectrotsentral-3 CJSC (TEC-3), Kharkov, Ukraine. TEC-3, in an oblast (province) adjacent to Lugansk, is one of Ukraine's largest producers of heating and electrical energy, with annual production capacity of 100 Megawatts. Kharkov, in northeastern Ukraine, is the nation's second largest city, with a…

SAN JOSE, California, September 2 /PRNewswire/ -- - Facilitates Low-cost, Easy Evaluation of CAP Capabilities Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced its AT91CAP7A-STK Starter Kit for the evaluation of its ARM7(TM)-based CAP(TM) family of customizable microcontrollers. CAP7 customizable MCUs allow designers to migrate ARM7-plus-FPGA designs to a low-NRE, single-chip solution with approximately 30% lower unit costs, with eight times better performance, 98% less static power consumption, and 70% less active power consumption. The US$399 CAP7 Starter Kit includes a printed circuit…

Researchers using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, titanium and silicon, have grown wires into a two-dimensional network of branches that resemble flat, rectangular netting, Boston College assistant professor of chemistry Dunwei Wang and his team report in the international edition of the German Chemical Society journal Angewandte Chemie. By creating nanonets, the team conquered a longstanding engineering challenge in nanotechnology: creating a material that is extremely thin yet maintains its complexity, a structural design large or long enough to efficiently transfer an…

The origin of the microscopic meteorites that make up cosmic dust has been revealed for the first time in new research out yesterday. The research, published in the journal Geology, shows that some of the cosmic dust falling to Earth comes from an ancient asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. This research improves our knowledge of the solar system, and could provide a new and inexpensive method for understanding space. Cosmic dust particles, originally from asteroids and comets, are minute pieces of pulverised rock. They measure up to a tenth of a millimetre in size and shroud the solar…

LONDON, September 1 /PRNewswire/ -- - Ian Gaitch Appointed Director of Global Marine Energy Global Marine Systems today confirmed its commitment to the rapidly expanding energy market with the creation of a new business unit, Global Marine Energy. Ian Gaitch, a long time Global Marine staff member, has been appointed the director of the new unit and will be responsible for building on the success Global Marine has already seen with partners and clients in the offshore wind farm, power and oil and gas industries. "Ian has been core to developing our position in this important market to date.…

LONDON, August 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Unite the Union have criticised Alstom Power's decision to bring in workers from overseas without giving consideration to the considerable pool of skilled local workers. Unite have raised concerns on behalf of its construction members regarding health and safety, assurances of rates of pay and concerns relating to local labour availability particularly given the downturn in the construction industry. The union have been advised that 150 overseas workers will be deployed at the Category 1 power station at Staythorpe near Newark, Nottinghamshire where the main…