08/12/10 Robot skills at Summerschool Robotica 2010 (Dutch article)

Van 9 tot en met 13 augustus zijn er 24 enthousiaste (inter)nationale studenten te gast bij TNO voor de Summerschool Robotica 2010. De deelnemers zijn uitgedaagd om met de beste strategie klaar te staan voor de finale van aanstaande vrijdag...

07/19/10 TNO and VDL deliver high-tech mirror support proto-types for what will be the largest telescope ever made

TNO and VDL delivered three prototypes of support structures for the main mirror of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT). The ESO-commissioned ground-based telescope will include the largest mirror ever built and gather 15 times more light than the largest optical telescopes operating today...

related item: view press release VDL here

06/07/10 TNO develops electronic partners for future deep-space astronauts

TNO scientists lead MECA, a European Space Agency (ESA) project developing the ideal future ‘ePartner’ for long duration space missions. As the doors close on six volunteers who will simulate astronauts on their way to Mars and back, TNO’s experiments into human-machine interactions are just beginning. Mars500 will be the first time that a crew will be able to be continuously monitored for 520 days, under extreme conditions and with a complex set of tasks to accomplish...

05/07/10 Herschel HIFI reveals cosmic water in surprising places, amounts and phases

HIFI, the largest space instrument ever built in the Netherlands, is only a few months into its scientific journey onboard ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, and has already discovered never-before-seen aspects of water creation in the universe…

04/26/10 TNO lands a growing role in Space Applications for GMES

On the 1st of April, 2010, TNO began a large project that aims to monitor subsidence and flooding in European coastal regions. The grant agreement for the project, named SubCoast, was signed on the 23rd of March. TNO leads SubCoast, partnering with 11 other European entities to get the job done…

04/12/10 Hightechsystemen en materialen (Innovatiegebied 1 op blz 56 van TNO Strategisch Plan 2011 – 2014) [TNO]

Nederland heeft een unieke positie op de wereldmarkt van complexe apparatuur en hightechsystemen. Wij produceren
de apparatuur voor het fabriceren van elektronische goederen
die steeds kleiner worden en steeds meer de eigenschappen
krijgen van flexibele folie. ...

04/01/10 TNO SoLayTec High Speed Spatial ALD 1nm/second (movie)

A novel disruptive concept in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), developed by Dutch research organization TNO, can achieve breakthrough ultrafast Al2O3 deposition rates of 1 nm/s (currently limited to 0.1 nm/s). SoLayTec, a spin-off company from TNO, the Dutch organization for applied scientific research, aims to develop and market equipment
for High Volume Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) on solar cells. …

02/17/10 3D-vision system for refuelling fighter jets in the air now in operational use

Following testing lasting some two years, TNO’s Tanker Remote Vision System (TRVS) is now being used by the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF). This vision system specially developed for the air force enables the KDC-10 tanker to refuel fighter jets in flight more than three times more accurately than with the naked eye. ...

02/14/10 High-Speed ALD Opens Backside Passivation Opportunities (1nm/sec)

Today a major obstruction in commercially feasible atomic layer deposition (ALD) is its limited deposition rate (0.1 nm/s). ...