Sentences with phrase «of plasma technology»

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Videophiles will still pick plasma every time, but the proliferation of cheaper LCDs, particularly in popular 26 - to 36 - inch sizes plasma's technology didn't allow, caused plasma sales to plummet.

We thought the technology would be the easy part, but it took three dozen engineers, three years, and tens of thousands of plasma - reactor design simulations to get it right.

Our technology is based on a variant of chemical vapor deposition, which builds the diamond lattice atom by atom in a reactor that creates a plasma akin to the outer core of the sun.

In 2000, the company entered into a joint venture with the American Red Cross that aimed to use ProMetic's technology to pull therapeutic proteins out of blood plasma.

ETHNews examines some of the second layer solutions currently being developed to help make blockchain technology more scalable, namely, plasma and sharding.

General Fusion's team of more than 50 scientists and engineers are world leaders in fusion technology, with expertise across plasma physics, computer simulation and engineering.

The engine recently produced an output of more than 200 kilowatts, an order of magnitude above previous technology, making it «by far the world's most powerful plasma rocket,» Chang Díaz says.

Plasma propulsion is an important and efficient technology used to control spacecraft for Earth observation, communications and fundamental exploration of outer space.

Larger biomarker signatures can be detected with technology from CDI Laboratories, which offers microarrays of functional human proteins (over 20,000 on a single array) to test the antibodies present in human liquid biopsy samples, such as blood, serum, plasma, CSF, or tissue lysates.

Our modern way of life, with its reliance on technology, has unwittingly exposed us to an extraordinary danger: plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.

Now, using a high - resolution eclipse - imaging technique, a team led by Miloslav Druckmüller at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic has linked the strange patterns to plasma eruptions on the sun's surface, called solar prominences.

That time scale of a few minutes fits well with models of the circuit's behavior, says plasma physicist Goran Marklund of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Two young plasma physicists at Chalmers University of Technology have now taken us one step closer to a functional fusion reactor.

The first application of the Helinx technology, the Intercept Blood Systems, exploits the fact that while blood components such as red blood cells, plasma, and platelets do not contain nucleic acids, viruses and bacteria do.

PlasmaDerm, a new medical technology solution, uses plasma to facilitate faster healing of wounds.

Twelve scientific divisions are investigating confinement of high - temperature hydrogen plasmas in magnetic fields, heating of plasmas, plasma diagnostics, magnetic field technology, data acquisition and processing, plasma theory, materials research, plasma - wall interaction, and systems studies.

Omega's closure would have «irreversible and disastrous ramifications for maintaining the safety and reliability of our nuclear stockpile,» Richard Petrasso of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge wrote in one letter to Representative Joe Kennedy III (D — MA).

But thanks to plasma technology, one city's rotting rubbish will soon release far less methane — and provide power for 50,000 homes — because of an innovation in plasma technology backed by Atlanta - based Geoplasma.

«The whole process was unsatisfactory,» says Martin Greenwald of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge.

Martin Greenwald is Associate Director and head of the Office of Computer Services for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, heads the group responsible for data acquisition and computing for the Alcator C - Mod project, and leads the transport program for that experiment.

In particular, they would require shuttering a major fusion experiment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and would lead to the layoff of 100 of 430 staff members at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

During the webinar, our expert panel of researchers will discuss: • Strategies and technologies for successful cancer biomarker discovery through robust detection and analysis of miRNAs in biofluids • Research into analytic and biological variables that impact miRNA measurements in serum and plasma from the clinical pathologist's point of view • The novel application of miRNAs in serum as biomarkers of aging and chronic disease • The answers to questions submitted by the live, online viewers.

Chris Bishop of AEA Technology says that the best condition for fusion, where turbulence in the plasma is at a minimum, is also the hardest to set up.

A team led by scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has reached another milestone in developing a promising technology for accelerating particles to high energies in short distances: They created a tiny tube of hot, ionized gas, or plasma, in which the particles remain tightly focused as they fly through it.

Shi developed the paper with assistance from co-authors Nat Fisch, director of the Program in Plasma Physics and professor and associate chair of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, and Hong Qin, a physicist at PPPL and executive dean of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China.

In fact, some of the more promising technologies involved with nuclear fusion research use magnetic fields to contain plasmas.

So if a plasma is the base technology of a light saber, it needs to be contained.

In the case of a lightsaber, the best today's technology could achieve would be a plasma weapon contained by magnetic fields.

In the 1990s, treatment leapt forward again, with donated plasma being replaced by clotting factors manufactured through recombinant DNA - technology, eliminating the transmission of viral diseases that had devastated the haemophiliac community in the 1970s and 1980s.

«Experimental results show that the longest plasma jet length can be obtained by adjusting the geometric factors,» said Jiaming Xiong, from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and one of the authors.

Published today in the journal Plasma Sources Science and Technology, the research by the universities of Lisbon and Porto, and École Polytechnique in Paris, shows that the pressure and temperature ranges in the Martian atmosphere mean non-thermal (or non-equilibrium) plasma can be used to produce oxygen efficiPlasma Sources Science and Technology, the research by the universities of Lisbon and Porto, and École Polytechnique in Paris, shows that the pressure and temperature ranges in the Martian atmosphere mean non-thermal (or non-equilibrium) plasma can be used to produce oxygen efficiplasma can be used to produce oxygen efficiently.

According to Fisch, the current developments are a variation and refinement of a plasma - based mass separation system first advanced by a private company called Archimedes Technology Group.

Pyrolytic and chemical recycling of plastic wastes, utilization of biomass materials by thermal methods, environmental technologies, efficient utilization of solar energy, processing of hazardous wastes in thermal plasmas.

Grierson received the Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology Development for his groundbreaking measurements of the flow of the main atomic nuclei, or ions, in the DIII - D tokamak.

about Science on Saturday: When Plasmas Meet Surfaces: An Exploration of Physics and Technology at the Plasma - Materials Interface

Teams of middle school and high school students from as far away as Delaware and New York will come to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Feb. 24 to Feb. 25 to compete in a battle of the minds in 12 fierce rounds of competition answering challenging math, science and technology questions at the DOE's New Jersey Regional Science Bowl ®, 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, New Jersey.

Materials chemistry, environmental chemistry; pyrolytic and chemical recycling of plastic wastes, utilization of biomass materials by thermal methods, research in environmental technologies, research on the more efficient utilization of solar energy, processing of hazardous wastes in thermal plasmas.

The study focuses on the discovery, confirmation and validation of novel biomarkers in a non-interventional manner applying NGS, multiplex PCR and miRNA technologies to determine the biomarkers according to free circulating DNA, RNA, miRNA of maternal plasma, serum and white blood cells along with the use of extracellular vesicles.

Both technologies allow the simultaneous detection of multiple factors in serum, plasma and tissue culture supernatants.

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge and some other international institutions investigating this «extreme stellar output» observed jets of hot plasma and gas bubbles (at about 10 million degrees) blasting out from the galaxy's central black hole.

NASA aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson told more than 600 seventh - to tenth - grade girls at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Young Women's Conference that she was depending on them to pursue their dreams and make their ideas a reality in the wide - open field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

The Indian effort brings together three of the country's top research institutes; the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), and the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR).

Ryutov has a master's degree in experimental nuclear physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. in plasma theory from the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow.

The Clinical Biomarkers Facility offers services for high - throughput and highly specific analyses of protein biomarker candidates in body fluids such as plasma, serum, cerebrospinal fluids etc. and cell and tissue lysates using molecular tools such as proximity extension and proximity ligation technologies (PEA and PLA) providing assays with high specificity and sensitivity in complex biological matrices.

Many of these customers are working at the forefront of new technology - in the fields of plasma research, surface science, vacuum processing and gas analysis.

Dr. Virden holds two U.S. patents and has received R&D 100 and Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for nonthermal plasma technology, a Discover Award with Massachusetts Institute of Technology for fuel reformation technologies, and he contributed to a Financial Times Global Automotive Award for PNNL's assistance to Delphi's nonthermal plasma technology for automotive apptechnology, a Discover Award with Massachusetts Institute of Technology for fuel reformation technologies, and he contributed to a Financial Times Global Automotive Award for PNNL's assistance to Delphi's nonthermal plasma technology for automotive appTechnology for fuel reformation technologies, and he contributed to a Financial Times Global Automotive Award for PNNL's assistance to Delphi's nonthermal plasma technology for automotive apptechnology for automotive applications.

Written Testimony of Stewart Prager Director, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University Delivered to the Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Energy For the hearing on April 20, 2016

Chuck Kessel, a principal engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has won the 2015 Fusion Technology Award.

The honor, from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers» (IEEE) Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, recognizes outstanding contributions to fusion engineering and technology.

Hawryluk has received numerous awards during his career including a Department of Energy Distinguished Associate Award, a Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and Technology and a Fusion Power Award as well as American Physical Society Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics with Rob Goldston and James Strachan.