August 24, 2006

A novel nanostring resonator operates at room temperature, and with an extremely high quality factor, say developers at Cornell University.

Engineers at Purdue University have developed a method for growing individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer.

Air curtains or doors are actually streams of air blowing down from an overhead unit in an open doorway.

The M1 Wave electronic bore gage from Marposs Corp., Auburn Hills, Mich., uses Bluetooth wireless technology in a handheld measuring device that is reportedly accurate, durable, and easy to operate.

A team of University of Maryland researchers has developed a technique that promises to make mass production of complex plastic microstructures a routine, one-step process.

The rapid growth of composite aerospace structures has created a parallel demand for complex, monolithic titanium components to join them together.

Also from Cornell researchers comes a broadband light amplifier on a silicon chip, considered a significant step towards photonic microchips, devices in which photons replace electrons as the means of communication.

A second-generation noncrystalline, nanoparticle stereolithography (SL) resin lets VG Kunststofftechnik in Germany manufacture limited production runs of small, detailed parts.

When builders at Skip Barber Racing School design with 2D software, they seldom redesign or analyze existing components.

Many shops still design parts on 2D CAD systems and manually write NC code for cutting the parts. Baker Drivetrain Inc., a company that manufacturers custom motorcycle parts, says it recently migrated away from these methods to a 3D CAD and CAM package that work together

Recent years have seen the automobile industry relying more heavily on numerical methods for aerodynamic design and less on expensive experimental tests.

Maserati Corse, the racing arm of Italian car manufacturer Maserati, says it will continue to use CAD software from PTC, Needham, Mass., to manage the product life cycle of its racing cars.

The year's largest exhibition of machine tools and automation systems takes place Sept. 6 to 13 at Chicago's McCormick Place.