through in existing technology or leading to new appli- cations or new areas of engineering endeavor. Charles H. Townes, Ph.D., professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, is hon- ored for the invention of masers and lasers that have dramatically changed the modern world and benefited mankind.

Masers are promising for applications that use microwave radiation. Here, the authors present a compact room-temperature maser design using a high permittivity dielectric material for the ...

Before there were lasers, there were microwave lasers, or masers. First conceived in the Soviet Union and the United States during the 1950s, early maser machines were the …

Spray drying is an important processing technology used in many functional food and nutraceutical applications. Spray drying is used to produce a large number of dried and encapsulated ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, flavours, etc.; however, the contribution of spray drying to the production of antioxidant-rich food products or ...

Emerging latent fingerprint technologies: a review Gurvinder Singh Bumbrah, Rakesh Mohan Sharma, Om Prakash Jasuja Department of Forensic Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India Abstract: Information regarding state of the art technology is accessible by searching in a systematic manner, and is the preferred way of keeping up to date.

Electromagnetic radiation, preferably from microwaves, and/or lasers, masers or ultrasonic energy is applied to the wastes in both chambers. Liberal use of catalysts is made in the chambers. In addition, the augering system is based on the use of two, counter-rotating, inter-lapped, symmetric augers for positive feed of materials.

Mineral Processing Introduction. Mineral processing is a major division in the science of Extractive Metallurgy. Extractive metallurgy has been defined as the science and art of extracting metals from their ores, refining them and preparing them for use. Within extractive metallurgy, the major divisions in the order they may most commonly occur ...

The minerals started in a mine in southern Georgia, then was shipped to a Utah processing plant and finally to a rare earth elements separation facility in Estonia. The 20-ton shipment created a new U.S.-to-Europe rare earth supply chain, making Energy Fuels only the second operation in the U.S. commercially producing and selling a processed ...

Despite predating the laser by five years, the maser has had little technological impact – primarily because it was inconvenient to use. Masers, which …

Study of process window development for high deposition-rate laser material deposition by using mixed processing parameters Journal of Laser Applications 27, 032008 ... Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT, Laser Metal Deposition, Laser Material Processing, ... Wuhan, China, 2012, paper No. MF2B.1.

Mines in Australia began producing rare earth oxides in 2011. In 2012 and 2013 they were supplying about 2% to 3% of world production. In 2012 the Mountain Pass Mine came back into production, and the United States produced about 4% of the world's rare earth elements in 2013.

Switchable Metamaterial Devices In article number 2100244, Tian Jiang and co-workers report a novel polarization-coding all-optical metadevice with a temporal dynamic modulation feature.The switching dynamic can be alternated between a quasi-steady state with a recovery time larger than 2 ns and an ultrafast transient state with a recovery time less than 25 ps in two orthogonal polarization ...

Until 1948, most of the world's rare earths were sourced from placer sand deposits in India and Brazil. [11] Through the 1950s, South Africa took the status as the world's rare earth source, after large veins of rare earth bearing monazite were discovered there. [11] Through the 1960s until the 1980s, the Mountain Pass rare earth mine in California was the leading producer.

In 1970, Dr. Theodore Haensch joined A.L. Schawlow's group in the physics department at Stanford, as a NATO postdoctoral researcher. Within a short time, he and his colleagues had invented a new, high-resolution, tunable laser system using expanded reflection gratings and an N2 laser for pumping the fluorescing dyes. This work resulted in a high-brightness, high-repetition-rate, narrow …

The consolidation of laser micro/nano processing technologies has led to a continuous increase in the complexity of optical fiber sensors. This new avenue offers novel possibilities for advanced sensing in a wide set of application sectors and, especially in the industrial and medical fields. In this review, the most important transducing structures carried out by laser processing in optical ...

A Review of Rare Earth Mineral Processi ng Technology Liyananadirah Mat Suli 1, Wan Hanisah Wan Ibrahi m 1,2, Badhrulhisham Abdul Aziz 1,2, Mohd Rizauddin Deraman 1 Nurul Ain Ismail 2

This was followed up again in the 1970's, when Forward again proposed his beam-powered propulsion schemes using either lasers or masers (micro-wave lasers) to push giant sails to a significant fraction of the speed of light. When photons in the laser beam strike the sail, they would transfer their momentum and push the sail onward.

Move Over Lasers, It's Maser Time. By Kevin Lee. PCWorld Aug 17, 2012 10:07 am PDT. [Credit: NPL] We've seen a lot of advancements in …

12%There is a class of devices, masers and lasers which at first seem to fall outside the categories so far discussed. Their names, when properly explained contain the clue to what they really are. The word maser stands for Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, and laser, stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission ...

Ytterbium Fiber-optic technology, solar panels, alloys (stainless steel), lasers, radiation source for portable X-ray units. Lutetium X-ray phosphors. 7/31/2012 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 8 Element Applications Scandium Metal alloys for the aerospace industry. Yttrium Ceramics, metal alloys, lasers, fuel efficiency, microwave

gas (research stage), titanium dioxide process (research stage). microbe-filled capsule technology (research stage) • Commercial REE Recycling applications – Number of operations is limited based on a literature review – most are in R&D stage • Air conditioners, Washing machines, Hard Disks, Mine Tailings, Batteries, Electronics 5/21/2012

35. Nouri K, Elsaie ML, Vejjabhinanta V, et al. Comparison of the effects of short- and long-pulse durations when using a 585-nm pulsed dye laser in the treatment of new surgical scars. Lasers Med Sci 2010;25:121-6. DOI PubMed; 36. Alster T, Williams C. Treatment of keloid sternotomy scars with 585 nm flashlamp-pumped pulsed-dye laser.

List of Research topics for 2012 2nd call as of Sep. 3, 2012 No. Research Area Title of the research (Website for more information) Name of Supervisor Requirements for applicants:Master/ Ph.D. Student Duration: 2-6months (60-180 days incl. traveling days) Comments Numbers of acceptance 10 Knowledge Processing Data mining methods for large scale ...

In many mineral processing applications it is necessary to know the isoelectric points of the various minerals in the ore to properly perform flotation and other mineral separations. However, current zeta potential analysis technology used to determine the isoelectric point of a particle suspension cannot deliver the isoelectric point of each individual mineral, just an average of the mineral ...

The review will focus on laser processing of bulk metallic glasses although laser processing of thin metallic glass samples has also been conducted. In particular, Zheng et al. (2013) studied the dynamic fracture behaviour of Fe-based metallic glass having used lasers to produce a shock load and Otsu et al. (2009) utilised YAG lasers to bend a ...

Mineral Processing Technology, Third Edition: An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery details the fundamentals of contemporary ore processing-techniques. The title first introduces the basics of ore-processing, and then proceeds to tackling technical topics in the subsequent chapters.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALL PUBLICATIONS RESULTING FROM CENTER RESEARCH. Journal Articles. Shin, J., Li, P., and Mazumder, J. Pulsed laser deposition of yttria stabilized ...

The proposed method includes leaching of REEs from SPM, PMS, and NiMH batteries using different solvents such as ionic liquids and/or mineral acids; precipitation of REE in the form of REOx and purification of the final products by an ionic liquid extraction (ILE) process for removing the impurities using Cyphos 101 as ionic liquid.

12%In this paper, we introduce laser-based additive manufacturing methods and review the types of lasers widely used in 3D machines. Important laser parameters relevant to additive manufacturing will be analyzed and general guidelines for selecting suitable lasers for additive manufacturing will be provided.

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In this paper, we introduce laser-based additive manufacturing methods and review the types of lasers widely used in 3D machines. Important laser parameters relevant to additive manufacturing will be analyzed and general guidelines for selecting suitable lasers for additive manufacturing will be provided.

• Currently processing ~2,500 tons of monazite per year (~0.3% of annual capacity) • Goal to process ~15,000 tons of monazite per year (~2% of annual capacity) • Long-term potential to process considerably more

Hybrid biomimetic organic-inorganic thin structures using laser processing solely are also presented by applying two different laser deposition regimes: pulsed laser deposition and MAPLE ...

H ISTORY. In 1917, Albert Einstein[] laid the foundation for the invention of the laser and its predecessor, 'the Maser,' by theorizing that photoelectric amplification could emit a single frequency, or stimulated emission.The term LASER is an acronym for 'Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation' and was first introduced to the public in 1959, in an article by a ...