Since the earliest days of IC (integrated chip) production in Silicon Valley, the IC industry has always had the majority of its fabrication facilities located in seismically active regions. Moreover, it appears that over time, the IC producers and their...
The rapid expansion of photovoltaic manufacturing capacity has brought significant developments in technological capabilities, most notably the development of thin film photovoltaics (PV). Historically, PV cells are made using silicon wafers (known as crystalline silicon technology), but in thin film technology, the...
NASA’s Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Mission Control in Houston, TX, takes control of a mission as soon as a spacecraft is launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But Houston, also known as Space City, has not fired a rocket...
SEMI PV Group is again proud to partner with Intersolar North America (www.intersolar.us), the world’s leading exhibition series for the solar industry, for the 3rd annual combined SEMICON West/Intersolar Expo and Conference held July 11–14, 2011...
Global Thermostat LLC (GT) (www.global thermostat.com) was formed in 2006 to develop and commercialize a unique technology for the direct capture of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and other sources. The GT process “co-generates” carbon capture with other industrial processes—such as power...
The demand for hydrogen (H2) is rapidly increasing in chemical and petrochemical industries due to the continued growth in demand for low sulfur fuels and to support unconventional oil sands development. Increased demand for hydrogen, while good for the industrial gas...
Have you noticed the increase in demand for nitrogen from your HVAC customers? You should have. As of January 1, 2010, HVAC manufacturers are no longer permitted to produce or import residential air conditioning units designed to use...
In the early 1990s the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) needed a method to open containers that stored nuclear contaminates. There were available options that could open the containers, but they had the potential of creating large amounts of contaminated secondary waste...
