News

SBIR Opens New Funding Round to Fast-Track Smal...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has launched its latest funding cycle, inviting early-stage companies developing technologies in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and health technology to apply. Successful applicants...

AI in Scientific Research: How AI Compressed a ...

AI in Scientific Research: A Turning Point for R&D A recent research story from Anthropic has sparked intense discussion across the AI and scientific communities. In “Vibe physics: The AI...

Why Plate Material Matters for Thin-Film Baking...

KW-4AH Hotplate vs Traditional Hotplates:The KW-4AH uses a highly thermally conductive copper plate to deliver much more uniform baking, with surface temperature variation of less than 5°C. Traditional hotplates often...

Thin Film Coating Defects: Striations, Chuck Ma...

In the field of thin-film materials processing, Prof. Dunbar P. Birnie III has built a reputation as one of the leading researchers exploring how high-quality coatings can be produced from...

Spin Coating

Spin coating is a technique used to deposit uniform thin films onto a flat substrate by spinning the substrate at high speed. A liquid solution (photoresist, polymer, sol-gel precursor, nanoparticle...