{"title":"Thyristors for HVDC transmission","authors":"H. Mitlehner, H. Schulze","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/308","url":null,"abstract":"To make HVDC transmission competitive, the number of components - of which thyristors are of paramount importance - must be reduced. This article looks at the fabrication of thyristors with high blocking voltages.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125535102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physics and the problems of defective vision","authors":"W. Charman","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/305","url":null,"abstract":"Optical physics has always played a key role in the analysis and treatment of visual deficiencies. Now, ultrasound and various forms of tomography can be used for imaging of the visual system, new computer-assisted designs are improving spectacle and contact lenses, and lasers are finding new uses in surgery on the eye.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128604030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Processing light signals: Applications of MBE-grown quantum wells and superlattices to lasers and other photonic devices","authors":"K. Ploog","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/304","url":null,"abstract":"Electro-optic devices are beginning to find practical application as the basis of 'photonics' - the optical equivalent of electronics.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123431333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physics and adhesion","authors":"K. Allen","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/309","url":null,"abstract":"Adhesion is everywhere, in both the commonplace and the high-tech item. The physics involved is described and a range of interesting examples given.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130644584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electronic dot generation","authors":"A. A. Mortimer","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/303","url":null,"abstract":"The art of colour reproduction is also a science. If coloured ink can only be printed as solid dots, how can the dots best be produced to give full colour pictures.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121173220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healthcare technology at Fulmer","authors":"W. E. Duckworth","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/306","url":null,"abstract":"Much of the contract research at the Institute of Physics's Fulmer Ltd Laboratories applies physics and related technologies to medicine.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129241526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The history and mathematics of rockets","authors":"J. C. Newby","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/301","url":null,"abstract":"Rocketry is both a fascinating exercise in the application of elementary physics and a first-class demonstration of the linkages between science, technology and society.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133126962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Getting it together - and keeping it that way: the integrity of aircraft structures","authors":"W. G. Heath","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/302","url":null,"abstract":"Structural integrity has been a prime concern of every aircraft designer since the Wright brothers. Here the author describes the various technologies underlying this important aspect of-aeronautical engineering.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125253960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electricity brings new approaches to drying","authors":"P. Hulls","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/5-6/307","url":null,"abstract":"Faster, more efficient, energy-saving methods of drying have been made possible by developments in the technology of heat pumps and dryers. The benefits are already being felt by brewers, bakers, boardmakers and in the timber trade.","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133546616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The new research selectivity: frontier of advancement or managed contraction?","authors":"P. Hoch","doi":"10.1088/0305-4624/19/4/303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4624/19/4/303","url":null,"abstract":"The new University Research Centres might save scientific research in the UK and enhance Britain's industrial capabilities - but there are many grounds for concern!","PeriodicalId":368078,"journal":{"name":"Physics in Technology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127077547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}