This paper describes an autonomic machine control system applied to the adaptive control of a modular soldering machine. The particular case concerns the creation of a novel modular production machine with an integrated distributed agent control system, which will be sold worldwide from mid 2008. The agent model is described in terms of the specific customer requirements and specific advantages...

Making contact to a quantum dot: Single quantum-dot electronic circuits are fabricated by wiring atomically precise metal chalcogenide clusters with conjugated molecular connectors. These wired clusters can couple electronically to nanoscale electrodes and be tuned to control the charge-transfer characteristics (see picture).

Using the recently developed soldering formalism we highlight certain featuers of quantum mechanical models. The complete correspondence between these models and self dual field theoretical models in odd dimensions is established. The distinction between self duality and self dual factorisation in these dimensions is clarified. ∗e-mail: [email protected] †e-mail: [email protected]

We prove that the mathematical framework for the de Sitter top system is the de Sitter fiber bundle. In this context, the concept of soldering associated with a fiber bundle plays a central role. We comment on the possibility that our formalism may be of particular interest in different contexts including MacDowell-Mansouri theory, two time physics and oriented matroid theory.

Ceramic capacitors have proven themselves very reliable with extremely low failure rates. As processes continue to improve, reliability of the dielectric also continues to increase. This increase in the reliability of the dielectric has caused other categories to emerge as the main contributors to the overall failure rate. A recent review of field failure analysis of surface mount MLCCs, has sh...

The goal of the study is to compare quality of vapour phase reflowed solder joints soldered on different printed circuit board (PCB) surface finishes. Vapour phase reflow soldering guarantees the highest reliability, quality of processing and process safety. The big advantage of heat transfer in vapour phase soldering (VPS) is the extremely efficient transfer of latent heat through the condensi...