by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
IRD Glass uses high performance hard materials and employs precision machining equipment to produce ceramic components and subassemblies that meet our clients’ exact specifications. Many hard ceramic parts we create have less than .0005” dimensional tolerance....
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The detection and mapping technology known as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) that was first developed by NASA and used on the Apollo 15 mission to map the surface of the moon is now leading to groundbreaking advances in driverless cars and robotics (and...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Good news for the bottom line. According to a recent survey, employees in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany rated working for a company with a strong company culture as more important than higher pay. Specifically, 56% of polled workers said culture was more...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The materials we work with last for a really, really long time. Sapphire, hard ceramics, glass. So it’s no surprise that scientists are finding ways to use them to store information that could be vital to future generations, from our scientific discoveries to...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The promise of nuclear power is enormous. It produces energy via nuclear fission rather than chemical burning, generating a huge amount of electricity while putting zero carbon into the atmosphere. It works constantly. On average, nuclear power plants produce energy...