For the first time, scientists have caught a key driver of the ongoing erosion of the atmosphere of Mars in action. It took more than nine years' worth of satellite data, but a team led by planetary ...

A small team of planetary scientists, astrophysicists and space flight researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and one in France has made the first direct detection of atmospheric ...

Modifying surfaces by shooting particles at them - this technique, called 'sputtering', is indispensable in surface science. However, if the surface is not perfectly smooth and regular, it is hard to ...

Growth temperature is a critical parameter determining the sheet carrier density of scandium aluminum nitride (ScAlN)-based heterostructures, grown using the sputtering technique. Gallium nitride (GaN ...

Veeco Instruments has announced that it has shipped its Spector Ion Beam Sputtering (IBS) system and Sirius Optical Monitor System to the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (HHI). The ...