Officially inaugurated the era of electronic book, the major firms are willing to put on the table as many models as possible. New eBooks come at the hands of Japan’s Sony and its technical name for PRS300 and PRS600. Although earlier this week all pointed to one rumor, the day after the multinational company confirmed the existence of this pair of brothers ready to enter fully into the world of e-book, and how not disclosed some of its features.

The RC-Reader PRS300 Pocket Edition is an electronic book with five-inch screen (not to speak of touch) and a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels, just a little when compared with the technical characteristics of the Amazon Kindle will come DX, whose screen comes to ten inches. The same goes for memory. Sony has equipped the PRS300 with only 512 MB, unlike other teams who are above the UK. It is compatible with USB 2.0 connection and can connect to both PC and Mac The battery can last up to 7,500 pages.

No more outstanding is the model-SC Reader PRS600 Touch Edition. Although if he has a six-inch touchscreen, 800 x 600 pixel resolution and a thickness of only ten millimeters. Peca of the shortage of memory, 512 MB, although it has a virtual keyboard and an electronic dictionary in English. It leads perfectly with both PC and MAC, but has the same capacity for your battery.

We emphasize that it is especially for the price. PRS300 the cost can reach about 140 euros, while the PRS600 is made available to the client by 210 euros.

The revolution was about eBooks. Besides the new Kindle, Sony Corp. and Sony also throws Iliad, Phillips, and has its own e-book, like the Cybook Payre and not behind. Too many options to read in the era of modernity up to 170,000 books in a small device that fits in your pocket. Is it time to say goodbye to paper?

Spain is already digital. For 300 euros you can either have a library. Began Kindle, Amazon and now thousands of brands of euphoria following the electronic book. Sony aims to recapture the market with its new product, supposedly smaller and cheaper. However, competition is tough. Increasingly, e-books go on sale.

The euphoria comes with a digital force. Two years after the appearance of the Kindle, which has sold half a million units and has become the symbol of that revolution.

The threat of this little device is similar to having a real book. The screen is like a book with electronic ink, the text does not blink and the pixels can be varied to facilitate the reading. The display is not illuminated and therefore do not tire the eyes. Its greatest virtue is that it is a library of 260 grams.

All are two virtues in the book: the capacity and weight. The new model from Sony can store 350 titles and is only 12.5 centimeters. Like other electronic books. can stress, increase the body of the letter and change the margins for easy reading.

What me?

The Kindle is the king of digital books. Its biggest advantage is that it can be downloaded from 170,000 books from Amazon.

Dutch Iliad (the manufacturer is a spin off of Philips) is the most expensive (cost twice that of the rest) has wifi and better screen, but is also heavier and slower.

The Papyrer (aka Hanlin) and Cybook compete. They are easy to find in Europe and is very popular among lovers of technology.

Sony Corp will sell for $ 199, one third of the basic model Kindle and $ 80 less than the Sony PRS-504, which will be discontinued. Steve Haber, president of the digital division of Sony, cree that the price of paperback will attract new consumers

With the introduction of a stage at low temperature of plasma into the cycle of reaction of ALD, it is possible to provide the additional reactivity to surface in the form of plasma-produced species. This makes it possible ALD to be employed in an extent of the applications even broader by improving quality of film, in particular at lower temperatures and it also increases the number of materials which can be deposited.

The production of the effective devices is a continual challenge at the market of electronics and ALD was identified like essential innovation by doing this, because it is a service individual-limiting device which offers the advantage of giving the ordering of precise thickness. While the traditional semiconductor and other nano-electronic applications start to require a reduced dielectric thickness of layer, ALD becomes more frequently used and increasingly more critical.

Using remote means of plasma ALD of the damage can be kept with a minimum, as well as the end result being films more high-quality because of the displacement improved of the impurities which carry out to lower the resistivity and the higher density.

The processes of plasma ALD also offer the broadest choice of the chemistry of precursor available and films more high-quality with more to regulation of process.

Conclusion

 Chris Hodson concluded that the development of the processes of ALD is crucial with the industry of nano-electronics if we must see an advance in the manufacture of the future nano-electronics and the integrated circuits.

It is clear that the scopes of application of ALD increase quickly, because of the increase in the number of materials which can be deposited, of the widened choice of the precursors, quality improved of film and to lower the temperatures of deposit which still open greater possibilities.

There are disadvantages to be used ALD, with the principal limitation being at low speed of the process, with only one small fraction of a unit layer being deposited in an any cycle. In the past it was a problem but the films required by future electronic devices are in particular thinner than they took place in the past, thus the speed of the ALD is not such a critical topic.

Chris Hodson and other speakers with the event recognized the presence of the gaps in the chain of provisioning, that must go back be prohibitory while making it possible this technique from deposit to nanotechnology to be adopted in devices of electronics with full sound commercial potential. For several of deputy it was the first occasion for all the various agents in the chain of provisioning to come together, with academics, to identify and work towards establishing these bonds.

It is crucial with all new technologies to make sure that all the parts of the chain of provisioning act one on the other and keep up to date with the developments and of the possibilities and they is events of target groups, like this organized by the systems microphone of Nano, which encourage such an exchange of knowledge and promotion of new technologies involutes in the devices, the probes and the advanced systems of nano-electronics.

All the companies of electronics take up the constant challenge to develop and market the products which are competing in the market. To carry out this which they look at more and more with the industry of nanotechnology so that the new processes manufacture electronic devices with configurations below nanometer 100. Such a process is the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), that is able easily of the foundations measuring nanometer 100 and smaller on the applications most advanced in electronics, catalyses and technology of the probes. However, in order to benefit entirely from these new processes the challenge is to establish a liquid chain of provisioning which makes it viable so that the nanotechnology is actually presented.

The role of the chain of provisioning in ALD was the topic of a nanoe activity of target group of systems microphone accomodated by NanoKTN and in association with the common initiative of equipment and materials (JEMI), on March 31, 2009. The one day conference considered innovations in the manufacture of the advanced nano-electronic devices such as the marginal structures of MOS, as well as evaluated the existing gaps in the chain of provisioning as if not thrown a bridge on will prohibit companies to carry out the significant commercial profits.

The event saw presentations of the key actors in industry, including Metryx, technology of plasma of instruments of Oxford, Beneq, analyzes external of Loughborough, centers for the innovation of process (the IPC) and SAFC of point and comprised an exposure of table runner which got a unique opportunity with the exhibitors to present their products and services. The presentations looked at the developments of nano-electronics and the nano-materials these last years and technologies and the applications which cause the positive changes of these sectors.

Accentuate day included a presentation by Julia Baker, scientist principal of research at Kodak which looked at the development of the technology of atmospheric pressure ALD used into dielectric and the layers and the small Mike of semiconductor of the analysis external of Loughborough gave an introduction to analytical outside and the depth profiling of the techniques.

Professor Paul Chalker of the university of Liverpool looked at the use of ALD in the manufacture of the memory stacks of logic and semiconductor of VLSI, Paul Williams with point of shown SAFC how chemical precursors can be conceived to answer requirements of deposit and to mark bay at Metryx looked at the technique of mass of metrology employed to develop the thin layers deposited by processes of ALD.

Other principal presentations looked at the recent introduction of OLEDs (organic luminescent display), of the examples of the industrial applications incipient in nano-electronics, of postings and solar energy and the processes and of the services of ALD developed by the IPC.

Chris Hodson, product manager of ALD to the technology of plasma of instruments of Oxford, addressed the current tendencies of downscaling in the industry of semiconductor and of pushed while resulting in the development from use-and the devices and the nano-electronic systems. These changes of industry led to ALD becoming the method of choice to deposit films of quality with the final ordering of growth and the excellent insurance of stage, on the very demanding devices of report/ratio of high-aspect.

ALD was shown the first time in 1974 by Dr. Suntola in Finland and the commercial use of these methods started with the need for depositing dielectric films on structures of MOS. Later, ALD was developed for substrates of vast zones OLED, necessary in the manufacture of electroluminescent postings with flat panel. With nano-electronics becoming still developed during the end of the year 1990 and the 2000s early, the need for successful processes of ALD became even larger, while the request to produce thin isogonic films a specific thickness became imperative.

In nano-electronics, ALD is a technique of deposit of the thin layer which deposits a material on a nanostructure. The process is repeated until a layer of the thin layer is created. The film adopts the same crystalline structure that the material it is deposited above and the electric properties of films of recent creation, improve the material the ‘execution electronic of Using S. of the processes as ALD makes it possible manufacturers to order the electric properties of the material of host centre, taking account of the improved execution.

ALD currently is employed in nano-electronics to deposit tops-K oxides of door, dielectric tops-K of condenser of memory, ferroelectrics and metals and nitrides for electrodes and connects together. The need for ordering the extremely thin layers is essential in tops-K oxides of door.

Methods of ALD are employed to create tops-K oxides of door such as HfO2 and nanolaminates like HfO2 – AI2O3. The high diffusion barriers of lengthening such as AI2O3, because Cu connects together like the tin and the layers of passivation for OLEDs and polymers, also require processes of ALD for their manufacture. The combustible batteries and the strongly isogonic coatings used in the production of the mechanical systems electronic microphone-hydraulics and nanos (NEMS) also require the flexible and precise processes of ordering of thickness offered by ALD, to produce the resistant coatings resistant to wear, anti-stiction and chemical.

That is ACE, the genius Robot which was made in Germany. ACE stands for Autonomous City Explorer. ACE is made by some academics in Technical University of Munich.  That is one of the newest robot which has special ability in finding some location because this robot is not completed which GPS (Global Position System). And then, how this robot can find a place which it will go there?

For trial, the makers of this robot leave it in some university in German. And then, this robot must find a place in the middle of Munich city (about 1,5 km). This robot is completed with camera and software. This camera will detect people around it. This robot will go to the Munich city by asking people which it has found.

This robot will ask the people the way to go that place. If someone want to help, he will be asked to touch the screen and show the direction to some place. After that, this robot will never forget to say thanks to that people. That’s how ACE will find the place which it wanna go. Finally, ACE found that place in the midle of Munich city for 5 hours and has asked about 38 people on the road. The successfully of ACE in finding that place made the makers very happy. And I think, that’s very good job and congratulations to all of the makers.

When I was browsing today, I got an interested information. That is about the latest photos of the moon. According to scientists form Arizona State University, USA is still digitizing a lot of photos of moon which originally is from NASA in many experiment. There are about 35.000 photos since Apollo missions in 1970.

All of the photos is stored in refrigerator with -18 Celsius degrees. It is intended in order the photos can be scanned. All of photos in first part could be downloaded by internet users. The first part, all of the photos are in TIF format. And the size is about 11 Gigabyte.

But, that is also provided in smaller format (in PNG file). For more details, visit: http://apollo.sese.asu.edu