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Unexpectedly long-range effects in advanced magnetic devices

... The data read heads on modern high-density disk drives usually exploit a version of the giant ... for the magnetic islands that record data on hard disk drives, according to NIST metallurgist Robert ... in detecting changing field directions on the disk that it is "reading.". Researchers have long ...

Beating the back-up blues

... That sinking feeling when your hard disk starts screeching and you haven't backed up your ... along the wire. "The reason why the hard disk on your computer is likely to break is because it ... no 'seek' times when the head has to search the disk for information, so computers would be able to ...

A supercharged metal-ion generator

... by a strong electric field between the target disk (the cathode) and a grounded anode nearby. The ... field created by the negative bias of the target disk accelerates positive ions in the plasma, which strike the disk with enough force to liberate (sputter) metal ...

Denser, more powerful computer chips possible with plasmonic lenses that 'fly'

... LP turntable and is similar to those used in hard disk drives, the researchers were able to create line ... the phenomenal advances in data storage in hard disk drives," said Bogy. "They enable the fast speeds ... bearings are used to create magnetic tapes and disk drives, but this is the first application for a ...

Complete Genomics Launches, Becomes World's First Large-Scale Human Genome Sequencing Company

... fill 1,000 laptop computers, each with 100 GB of disk storage, data management for Complete Genomics' ... with five petabytes (5 million gigabytes) of disk storage in 2009 and will further increase its capacity to 60,000 processors with 30 petabytes of disk storage in 2010. Complete Genomics expects to ...

Industry Veterans Join Molecular Imprints' Management Team

... of marketing and business development for hard disk drives and emerging markets, respectively. ... expanding the company's leadership in the hard disk drive (HDD) industry. He will also drive the ... nanopatterning systems and solutions in the hard disk drive (HDD) and semiconductor industries. MII is ...

Data storage using ultra-small needles

... nanometre scale. The development of the hard disk is now reaching its technical limits because the entire disk is served by just a single head. Consequently, the capacity of the disk and the reading and writing speed cannot expand ...

Fujitsu PalmSecure and HT Systems' PatientSecure Selected by BayCare Health System to Protect Patient Confidentiality and Prevent Medical Identity Theft

... Inc., a leading supplier of innovative computer products including hard disk drives, peripherals and biometric security solutions, today announced that ... of America, Inc. currently offers products and services including hard disk drives, scanners and scanner maintenance, palm vein recognition technology ...

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Kionix's Dominance in the MEMS Accelerometers Market Through Product Line Strategy

... have been widely accepted in game controllers, notebook computers, hard disk drives (HDD), and personal navigation devices. The KXSC7 now allows ... functionality in mobile handsets, personal navigation/GPS-assist, hard disk drop protection in mobile products, and sports diagnostics. Kionix's MEMS ...

Commencement 2008: Student innovation could improve data storage, magnetic sensors

... has the potential to vastly expand data storage capability, Morrow said. A disk with increased data storage density would reduce the size, cost, and power ... spatial sensitivity, so that bits that are more closely spaced on the disk can be read. This same concept can be applied to other areas where ...

The Library of Congress in your wrist watch?

... of data on much smaller areas on the disk. The $60 billion a year hard disk drive industry is investigating several new technologies, one of which ... Khizroev said there are a number of challenges for getting the tiny disk drives to the market, including lubricating tiny parts and integrating the ...

BioNeutral's Ygiene(TM) Hospital Grade Achieves a 100% Total Kill (Pass) Against the Life Threatening Clostridium Difficile (C.diff) Spores in Independent EPA Required Protocol Testing.

... that at ATS Labs using the required EPA protocol testing, BioNeutral's Ygiene(TM) Hospital Grade Antimicrobial passed the difficult Quantitative disk Carrier test by totally eradicating all 5.4 million spores of Clostridium difficile (C.diff) present in this test in 10 minutes at room ...

BioNeutral's Ygiene(TM) Hospital Grade Antimicrobial Demonstrates a 99.9997% Kill Rate Against Clostridium Difficile Spores (C.diff) in Independent Lab Pre-testing Phase

... ("BioNeutral") (OTC Bulletin Board: BONU), a chemical technology-based Life Science company announced today that at ATS Labs, using a Quantitative disk Carrier test starting with 5.5 million Clostridium Difficile (C.diff) spores, BioNeutral's Ygiene(TM) Hospital Grade antimicrobial delivered an ...

Life sticks: UC San Diego bioengineer's sticky insights published in journal Science

... at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Health System. The team is trying to uncover the cause of unexplained lower back pain in patients with no obvious disk degeneration, pinched nerves or other known causes of lower back pain. "No matter what your area of expertise, there is someone that has a ...

New security and medical sensor devices made possible by metallic nanostructures

... the immediate surroundings. The nanostructures are each about 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair. One is shaped like a flat circular disk while the other looks like a doughnut with a hole in the middle. When brought together they interact with light very differently to the way they ...

Just Say No To Charcoal! New Eco-Friendly Alternative Grills Faster, Burns Cleaner And Greener

... to cooking, the FlameDisk saves roughly a half hour of wait time while giving eco-conscious cooks a green grilling alternative. Once lit, the disk will continue to burn for at least 40 minutes--ample time to cook any burger, hot dog, porterhouse or chicken breast. While the FlameDisk heat output ...

Capture of nanomagnetic 'fingerprints' a boost for next-generation information storage media

... many nanomagents are in one particular phase: for example, whether the magnetic moments are all pointing in the same direction or curling around a disk to form vortices. This in turn tells us how to encode information with these nanomagnets." The technique will be applicable to a wide variety of ...

USC researchers print dense lattice of transparent nanotube transistors on flexible base

... It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of ...

Nikon Instruments Introduces Exclusive VAAS Detector Imaging Method for Confocal Microscopy

... This is accomplished by collecting emission photons that normally are rejected by the emission side pinhole, traditionally used at the 1 airy disk size. This unique technology allows for virtual adjusting of the confocality and sensitivity of data post-acquisition, as well as collecting more ...

Could Database Software Help Cure Alzheimer's and Save the Earth?

... already generates 1.4 terabytes of image data per night. For the longer term, its architects are installing 1.1 petabytes (quadrillion bytes) of disk storage. Although Pan-STARRS won't use up all of that storage right away, it will still rank as one of the world's largest databases. Compressing, ...

Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential

... "The large potential gains in density offered by patterned media make it one of the most promising new technologies on the horizon for future hard disk drives." In its current form, this method is very well-suited for designing hard drives and other data-storage devices, which need uniformly ...

New process creates 3-D nanostructures with magnetic materials

... them with copper. The high aspect ratio features may range from tens of nanometers to hundreds of microns in width. Once filled, the surface of the disk is ground and polished down to remove the excess copper, leaving behind the trench and via pattern. The big trick in Damascene metallization is ...

Hoya Announces Fourth Quarter and FY2007 Financial Results

... for the fabrication of semiconductor devices and liquid crystal panels, optical lenses for use in digital cameras, and glass memory disks for hard disk drives. The Eye Care business provides eyeglasses and operates retail shops for contact lenses, as well as makes intraocular lenses for cataract ...

Pelikan Technologies and Lilly Form Alliance to Promote Diabetes Education

... advantage in the area of convenience: its lancets are safely housed in a 50-lancet disk, meaning users never have to see or touch the lancets. The disk is easily removed from the device and replaced as needed. Through their alliance, Pelikan and Lilly seek to advance diabetes care education by ...

Hoya Announces Third Quarter and Nine Month Results for 2007

... are essential to the fabrication of semiconductor devices, optical lenses for use in digital cameras and mobile phones, and glass disks for hard disk drives. Eye Care comprises of vision care, primarily providing eyeglasses; and health care, which provides contact lenses and operates retail shops. ...

Let there be light: new magnet design continues magnet lab's tradition of innovation

... to 20,000 times the Earths magnetic field. Magnetism is a critical component of a surprising number of modern technologies, including MRIs and disk drives, and high-field magnets stand beside lasers and microscopes as essential research tools for probing the mysteries of nature. With this new ...

Advanced Bionics Deploys CEVA-TeakLite(TM) DSP Core to Enhance Its Harmony(TM) HiResolution(R) Bionic Ear System

... high-performance digital signal processing applications. The core enables a large range of high-volume applications such as cellular handsets, DVDs, disk drives, VoIP gateways, IP phones, mobile audio, as well as hearing aid systems. The CEVA-TeakLite is a highly efficient low-power single MAC DSP ...

Hutchinson plant expansion nears completion

... Technology Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of disk drives for computers and other electronic goods, ... plant addition to serve the growing market for disk drives. Following its completion next month, ... by projections of long-term growth in the disk drive market. According to ...

Digital Media Superstar: Seagate?

... last week's flurry of announcements from hard disk drive stalwart Seagate. After all, this company ... hard drives for more than 20 years - and disk storage is, as everyone knows, a rather mundane ... new disk-based products, including a 750GB hard disk for digital voice recorders (DVR) and an 8GB ...

What patients want: A story of choice, clinical trials & evidence-based medicine

... Surgical vs. Non-operative Treatment for Lumbar disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research ... Surgical vs. Non-operative Treatment for Lumbar disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research ... York Times - Study Questions Need to Operate on disk Injuries. Indeed, it seems there as many cures ...

Supreme Court limits foreign reach of U.S. patents

... Microsoft placed its Window software on a master disk and supplied it abroad to customers who made copies of software from the master disk and installed the copies on foreign made ... with Windows software copied abroad from a master disk sent by Microsoft from the United States? The ...

Optimization of Biolistic Transformation Using the Helium-Driven PDS-1000/He System

... the distance between the rupture disk and macrocarrier (the gap distance), the distance ... all based on the rating of the rupture disk which was used in each bombardment. The actual ... the pressure rating of the rupture disk being used, and to adjust the helium metering ...

Eau Claire Manufacturer Drives Your PC

... of suspension assemblies for nearly three quarters of the world's computer disk drives. But it's just the type of challenge that a company that began in a ... density (number of bits of data that can be stored per inch per disk) made disk drives smaller and cheaper but reduced the number of components needed in ...

Milky Way churning out new stars at a furious pace

... Each of the stars, known to astronomers as protostars, has a swirling disk of circumstellar dust and creates ideal conditions for the formation of ... disks. The nascent stars grow as material spirals inward from the disk to the star. The same disks, astronomers think, provide the raw ...

A technique for increasing yields in bioreactors and disposable cell-culture systems

... ( Fig. 1 ). In a packed-bed bioreactor, the FibraCel disk bed serves to immobilize the cells, providing a low-shear, low-foam ... high-surface area for cell growth. Cells remain entrapped in the disk bed throughout the run, leaving the medium cell-free for ...

Inoculation, Growth & Harvesting in a New Easy-to-Use Disposable Cell Culture System

... suspension cultures become attached to or embedded in the FibraCel disk bed, where they remain throughout the growth process. Immobilization within the disk bed not only protects the cells from damage by shear forces, but also ...

Biolistic Transfection of Organotypic Brain Slices

... microprojectiles with DNA, drying them onto a macrocarrier disk and, finally, propelling them into target cells or tissue. The macrocarrier disk is accelerated with high-pressure helium into a stopping ...

Journey Leads Astronomer to New Galactic Structure

... hydrogen gas. It glows a faint red because it has absorbed much of the ionizing power of all the stars in our galaxy and it envelops the Milky Way's disk of stars in a structure that is roughly six thousand light years thick and 75,000 light years in diameter. "This gas rotates with the stars," ...

Technology and business merge at UW Burrill Competition

... to analyze the movement of vertebrae when the spine is at the center of rotation. This makes it possible to compare differences in intervertebral disk positions and determine problems that may result from spinal breakdown. The biggest boost is just giving us the confidence that a business like ...
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