We use metals in construction, domestic appliances, vehicles, and many other everyday products. It really can be said that metals have built the modern world. To fine-tune the desired properties of ...

The D-Wave quantum annealer isn’t a general-purpose computer, in that it can only solve a set of problems that can be structured as energy minimizations. And even on those problems, D-Wave employees ...

In thin-film technology, heat treatment is often used to selectively improve material properties of thin films, such as their crystallinity or density, and hence their electrical and optical ...

Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an annealing process that may make practical the use of block copolymer (bcp) thin films for patterning ...

We discuss the enhancement in miscibility of crystalline/crystalline blends of poly(butylene succinate) and poly(ethylene succinate) (PBS/PES) by simple melt ...

Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Center Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) in Switzerland developed a novel single-step thermal annealing process for ...

Rosatom announced yesterday it has extended the service life of unit 1 of its Balakovo nuclear power plant in the Saratov region of Russia by using thermal annealing on the VVER-1000's reactor ...