Aluminium nitride (AlN) ceramics have received significant attention owing to their excellent thermal conductivity, robust mechanical properties and potential for radiation resistance. Their unique ...

DURHAM, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) announces the qualification and production release of two new GaN processes: G40V4, a 0.25µm process with operating drain voltage up to 40V, ...

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has for some time been perfecting a process of hardening metals, mainly for the tooling and materials processing industries, known as ...

Wall Colmonoy Corp. has found a new use for its Nicrobraz Green Stop-Off product: the company calls it ``excellent'' for use in ion nitriding of steels. Green Stop-Off is a surface-active chemical ...

Titanium has a tendency to gall when in rubbing contact with itself and other surfaces. A number of techniques have been developed to engineer the titanium surface and overcome this problem: In the ...

Boron nitride (BN) is a chemically and thermally resistant compound composed of equal parts nitrogen and boron. It comes as a powder or a solid and shares structural and electronic similarities with ...