Fraunhofer Research News July
Moving furniture with a mouse(si apre in una nuova finestra),Furniture-buying can be nerve-wracking. Even imagination and painstaking room measurements won't guarantee that the cabinet will look good in its new spot. A new software program inserts virtual furniture into real photos of your own home, easing such decisions. Wax-based heat storage for buildings(si apre in una nuova finestra),Many buildings grow unbearably hot in the summer. New building materials can prevent this: Tiny wax-filled balls incorporated in the wall plaster store heat during the day and release it at again at night. Even during the dog days of summer, rooms stay pleasantly cool. , ,http://www.fraunhofer.de/english/press/pi/pi2003/07/index_rn_t3.html (Building simulation with a SMILE),Midsummer is the ideal time to find out whether the indoor environment of a building was well planned and realized. But even software packages have language problems, and data often have to be input manually. SMILE provides seamless simulation and optimization. , ,http://www.fraunhofer.de/english/press/pi/pi2003/07/index_rn_t4.html (Measuring invisible reflections),To make microchips ever more powerful, increasingly harder levels of radiation must be used in photolithography. But conventional optics are unsuitable for use with extreme ultraviolet. Europe's first reflectometer tests special mirrors for use in this part of the spectrum.
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