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From
Professor Emeritus Gordon G. Shepherd
On
"Global measurements of winds in the upper atmosphere using
a Doppler Michelson Interferometer"
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Canadian Space Agency honours York’s Gordon Shepherd
The Canadian Space
Program has recognized the pioneering work carried out
by Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus Gordon G.
Shepherd.
Shepherd, director
of York’s Centre for Research on Earth & Space Science
(CRESS), was given the prestigious John H. Chapman Award
of Excellence for 2003 by Marc Garneau, president of the
Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
The award was
bestowed in recognition of Shepherd’s exceptional
contribution to the Canadian Space Program. |
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Jordan,
Russia sign nuclear deal
by Staff Writers
Amman (AFP) Feb 26, 2009
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Russia has been involved in building a power station in the
Iranian Gulf port of Bushehr for the past 14 years. Tehran began
testing the 1,000-megawatt plant on Wednesday, saying it could
go on line within months.
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Russia,
which is helping Iran build its first nuclear plant, inked a
preliminary cooperation deal with Jordan on Thursday to pave the
way for producing nuclear power in the energy-poor kingdom.
Under the
agreement, Russia will help Jordan, which imports around 95
percent of its energy needs, build power and
desalination
plants as
well as research centres, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission head
Khaled Tukan said.
"A final
agreement will be signed in Moscow by the end March," Tukan told
state news agency Petra after signing the deal with Nikolai
Spassky, deputy director of the Russian Federal Agency for
Nuclear Energy.
"It's key to
boost Jordan's peaceful nuclear programme."
Jordan's 1.2
billion tonnes of phosphate reserves are estimated to contain
130,000 tonnes of uranium, whose enriched form provides fuel for
nuclear plants. The government wants the first such plant to be
ready by 2015.
The kingdom
is the latest Arab country, including Egypt and pro-Western Gulf
states, to announce plans for nuclear power programmes in the
face of Shiite Iran's controversial atomic drive.
The United
States, Israel and other countries suspect Iran of seeking to
develop nuclear weapons but
Tehran insists its atomic
programme is purely for peaceful purposes.
Russia has
been involved in building a power station in the Iranian Gulf
port of Bushehr for the past 14 years. Tehran began testing the
1,000-megawatt plant on Wednesday, saying it could go on line
within months.
http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Jordan_Russia_sign_nuclear_deal_999.html |
University
Of Alberta and NINT Researchers Make Solar Energy Breakthrough
by Staff Writers
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Feb 27, 2009
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File image. The team estimates it will be five
to seven years before plastic solar panels will be mass produced
but Buriak adds that when it happens solar energy will be
available to everyone. She says the next generation of solar
technology belongs to plastic.
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The
University of Alberta and the National Research Council's
National Institute (NINT) for Nanotechnology have engineered an
approach that is leading to improved performance of plastic
solar cells (hybrid organic
solar cells).
The
development of inexpensive, mass-produced plastic solar panels
is a goal of intense interest for many of the world's scientists
and engineers because of the high cost and shortage of the
ultra-high purity silicon and other materials normally required.
Plastic
solar cells are made up of layers of different materials, each
with a specific function, called a sandwich structure. Jillian
Buriak, a professor of
chemistry at the U of A,
NINT principal investigator and member of the research team,
uses a simple analogy to describe the approach:
"Consider a
clubhouse sandwich, with many different layers. One layer
absorbs the light, another helps to generate the electricity,
and others help to draw the electricity out of the device.
Normally,
the layers don't stick well, and so the electricity ends up
stuck and never gets out, leading to inefficient devices. We are
working on the mayonnaise, the mustard, the butter and other
'special sauces' that bring the sandwich together, and make each
of the layers work together. That makes a better sandwich, and
makes a better solar cell, in our case".
After two
years of research, these U of A and NINT scientists have, by
only working on one part of the sandwich, seen improvements of
about 30 per cent in the efficiency of the working model.
Michael
Brett, professor of electrical and computer engineering, NINT
principal investigator and member of the research team is
optimistic: "our team is so incredibly cross-disciplinary, with
people from engineering,
physics and chemistry
backgrounds all working towards this common goal of cheap
manufacturable solar cells. This collaboration is extremely
productive because of the great team with such diverse
backgrounds, [although] there is still so much more for us to
do, which is exciting." This multidisciplinary approach, common
at the National Institute for Nanotechnology, brings together
the best of the NRC and the University of Alberta.
The team
estimates it will be five to seven years before plastic solar
panels will be mass produced but Buriak adds that when it
happens solar energy will be available to everyone. She says the
next generation of solar technology belongs to plastic.
"Plastic solar cell material will be made cheaply and quickly
and in massive quantities by ink jet-like printers.".
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Nano-origami Used To Build
Tiny Electronic Devices
ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2009)
— Folding paper into shapes such as a crane or a butterfly is
challenging enough for most people. Now imagine trying to fold something
that's about a hundred times thinner than a human hair and then putting
it to use as an electronic device.
A team of
researchers led by George Barbastathis, associate professor of
mechanical engineering, is developing the basic principles of "nano-origami,"
a new technique that allows engineers to fold nanoscale materials into
simple 3-D structures. The tiny folded materials could be used as motors
and capacitors, potentially leading to better computer memory storage,
faster microprocessors and new nanophotonic devices.
Traditional micro-
and nano-fabrication techniques such as X-ray lithography and nano-imprinting
work beautifully for two-dimensional structures, and are commonly used
to build microprocessors and other micro-electrical-mechanical (MEMS)
devices. However, they cannot create 3-D structures.
"A lot of what's
done now is planar," says Tony Nichol, a mechanical engineering graduate
student working on the project. "We want to take all of the nice tools
that have been developed for 2-D and do 3-D things."
The MIT team uses
conventional lithography tools to pattern 2-D materials at the nanoscale,
then folds them into predetermined 3-D shapes, opening a new realm of
possible applications.
Smaller,
faster
The researchers have
already demonstrated a 3-D nanoscale capacitor, developed in
collaboration with MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn, which was presented at
the 2005 meeting of the Electrochemical Society. The current model has
only one fold but the more folds that are added, the more energy it will
be able to store. Extra layers also promote faster information flow,
just as the human brain's many folds allow for quicker communication
between brain regions, says Nader Shaar, a mechanical engineering
graduate student working on the project.
Getting the
materials to fold back and forth into an accordion-like structure has
been one of the researchers' biggest challenges, along with getting the
faces and edges to line up accurately.
They have worked out
several ways to induce the nanomaterials to fold, including:
Depositing metal (usually chromium) onto the surface where you want
the fold to be. This causes the material to curl upward, but it does not
allow for right angles or accordion-type folds.
Directing a beam of helium ions onto the desired fold location. The
beams imprint patterns that will cause the material to fold once it's
removed from the surface. High-energy beams go to the bottom of the
material and cause it to fold up; ions from low-energy beams accumulate
at the top of the material and make it fold down.
Embedding gold wires in the material. A current running along the
gold wires interacts with an external magnetic field, creating a Lorentz
force that lifts the face. This technique is a form of directed
self-assembly, where the designer provides the template and then lets
the device assemble itself.
The folded shapes
can be fabricated with a few different types of material, including
silicon, silicon nitride (a type of ceramic) and a soft polymer known as
SU-8.
Once the material is
folded, the tricky part is getting the faces to align properly. The
researchers have developed a few ways to do this successfully: one uses
magnets; another involves attaching polymers to a certain spot on the
faces and melting them with an electric current, sealing the two faces
together.
They're still
working on getting faces and edges of a folded cube to line up with
nanoscale precision, but Shaar, co-supervised by associate professor of
mechanical engineering Carol Livermore, has devised a promising method
that uses three pairs of matching holes and protrusions to pull the edge
and face into alignment.
The researchers are
deep in the development phase of their nano-folded devices, but they are
starting to think about how the technology could be used in the future.
"We've got the core components figured out, and now we're just having
fun with figuring out some applications," says Nichol.
A team of MIT researchers folded this polymer sheet into one corner
of a cube. The edge of each face is about 800 microns. (Credit: Photo /
Nader Shaar)
Adapted from materials provided by
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The
Council of the Association of Bulgarian Engineers in Canada is happy to
inform all Bulgarian Engineers that we reached an Agreement in Principle
with Mr. Tchavdar
Elenkov, CFP, for
Employee Group Benefits Program.
Our goal
is to enable all
Self employed Bulgarian Engineers
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can be upgraded by adding the optional Dental Care coverage
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contributions, Union Dues etc., and the premiums for the plan are tax
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