Following my retirement, we have closed our company for new business.
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly, our email portal remains open and I would be delighted to hear from you and provide ongoing support or advice.
Richard Thomson
support@rta-instruments.com
Companies represented up to the end of December 2023. Please now contact them directly.
k-Space Associates, Inc.
Phone: +1 (734) 426-7977
requestinfo@k-space.com
https://www.k-space.com
STAIB INSTRUMENTS GmbH
Phone: +49 8761 76 24 0
sales@staibinstruments.com
https://www.staibinstruments.com/
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Monday, 27 May 2013
Friday, 24 May 2013
LEDs go big on Si
Plessey has announced the commercial availability of GaN/Si LEDs manufactured using 6
inch GaN substrates
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Feel to hear
Nickel based shape memory alloys are materials that ‘remember’ their
cold-forged shape; returning to its pre-deformed shape when heated. Work is
underway to use this technology to produce a Braille smartphone for the
blind. The screen uses a grid of alloy pins, which expand and contract
sufficiently to be felt by the fingertips, and thus create Braille characters
or letters as a touchable pattern
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
A fist full of neurons
According to a paper from Montclair State University, clenching your
right hand may help form a stronger memory of an event or action, and clenching
your left may help you recollect the memory later. Based on people memorising
and recalling words from a list of 72 words, the findings suggest that some
simple body movements, by temporarily changing the way the brain functions, can
improve memory. Clenching the right fist may activate a brain region that is
involved in storing memories, while squeezing the left hand may trigger an area
dealing with retrieving information. So why don’t boxers never forget?
Friday, 17 May 2013
What, no Higgs?
Carl Hagen has recently
joined in the discussion as to whether the Higgs Boson should be
renamed in order to acknowledge the contributions of the co-workers. It may
also be apposite to note that a maximum of three (living) individuals can be
named as joint winners of a Nobel Prize. Six theorists are connected with
developing the theory of the Higgs with five still living. Professor Hagen, one
of this group, suggests that it be called the Standard Model Scalar Meson, or
SM Squared. I personally like the suggestion to name it: The Particle (formerly
known as Higgs).
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
A good read?
The sale, for $6 million, of Francis Crick’s 1953 handwritten
letter to his son describing the model for the structure of DNA is remarkable.
Leaving aside the money element, the simplicity and clarity of the prose is
truly beautiful. As an undergraduate I remember reading key papers written by
Rutherford and Thomson on atomic physics and marvelling how comprehensible they
made their ideas. I find that delving into the current, leading edge,
scientific publications is sadly not so straightforward or enjoyable. Does the
peer review process place sufficient emphasis on the notion that as well as
scientific relevance someone might actually prefer to enjoy reading it?
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