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The Great Resignation has paved the way for resignation remorse, according to a number of publications. In fact, 72% of the 2,500 U.S. workers surveyed by The Muse said their new role or company was very different from what they had been led to believe. For HR leaders still dealing with a labor shortage or simply trying to fill open positions, this news could help.
Ideally, HR professionals are tracking employees and can address issues before the valued employee decides to quit. Predictive analytics can prove beneficial in these cases. However, sometimes, there's nothing HR can do, until and unless ex-employees realize they made a mistake.
Learn about how HR can capitalize on resignation remorse:
Court Departing Talent
Some employees are not a good fit, and it might even be a relief when they give notice. However, there are many employees that HR professionals and hiring managers wish would stay. Always make a person's exit a positive experience.
To start, express disappointment when a valuable employee quits. If possible, see if there is any way to get him or her to stay. Conduct an exit interview to pinpoint the reasons the employee decided to quit. Sometimes, the answer will be as simple as receiving a higher salary. Often, there's not much HR can do about that kind of resignation.
However, there are other reasons people leave jobs. Maybe they need more flexibility because they are parents. Perhaps, they want to a job that gives them more of a sense of purpose. HR professionals have an opportunity to share ways they could have accommodated those needs.
Even if the employees are still going to move on, they will know of the possibilities should they ever want to return. Of course, let them know they could always come back to interview again should there be openings that might be a good fit.
Create an Alumni Network
Speakers at the recent Employee Engagement and Experience event talked about the employer brand. One of the ideas that many companies have had is staying engaged with employees who leave the company. Previously, the idea was simply for the employee not to burn a bridge.
However, now some employers are reaching out and staying connected to former employees, who have had positive experiences. They ask them to spread the word about their time with the organization and recommend job candidates. HR leaders can stay connected on social media to promote the company and follow the achievements of their former employees. Sometimes, these groups of alumni form organically online. It's just a matter of discovering them.
Stay in Touch
At top business schools, people always talk about proper ways to network. One of the biggest bits of advice is to connect with people regularly for the sole purpose of checking in. In other words, one should not reach out simply for transactional purposes.
HR professionals can come up with a schedule for dropping a note to stellar, former employees who could be an ambassador. Of course, they should follow them on social media, and they can celebrate new achievements. The point is to develop a relationship, so this ex-employee can either promote the employer brand or return to the company at some point.
Actively Recruit Alumni
Not every former employee is going to be a good fit for a comeback. Some will, however. They come back to the company with certain benefits to the employer. They know the basics of how the place works. Even if things must have changed while they were gone, they still have some contacts and basic institutional knowledge. They will not require as much training. Most importantly, they have likely picked up new skills in their time away.
As a result, HR professionals should use this alumni network to actively recruit for positions. Even if the alumnus is not interested, he may be able to connect you to others, who would be a good fit. The bottom line is that HR professionals should stay connected to former employees as part of a complete and innovative recruiting strategy.
By Francesca Di Meglio
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Red potatoes are just one of the many locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables patrons buy at the Hernando Farmers' Market in DeSoto County.
Hernando Farmers' Market Thrives with Local Fare
Story by Leah Barbour • Photos by Kevin Hudson
From the youngest to the oldest generations, thousands of people are visiting, shopping, and enjoying themselves at the Hernando Farmers' Market, held Saturdays on the historic DeSoto County Courthouse lawn.
The market has more than just fresh produce. It connects the community by uniting the shoppers, producers, and artisans who come.
While the market sells the traditionally expected fare, including locally grown fruits and vegetables, beef and pork, and canned and preserved foods, it also hosts tomato tastings, food-preparation demonstrations, food samplings, and recipe demonstrations. Plus, thanks to a longstanding partnership among the market, the city of Hernando's Office of Community Development, and the Mississippi State University Extension Service's local county office, the Hernando Farmers' Market is being recognized in Mississippi and beyond.
Not only was the market ranked the largest outdoor market in Mississippi in 2017, but it was also voted "Mississippi's Favorite Farmers' Market" by the American Farmland Trust, says Gia Matheny, Hernando director of community development. Hernando received the "Healthy Hometown Award" from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of Mississippi, and the AARP recognized Hernando as an "age-friendly community."
Matheny credits the market's success to the variety of activities, such as organized dancing and exercising geared toward all age groups, as well as the free transportation available to seniors who want to come to the market.
Extension representatives offer food-safety training for the vendors selling their goods, and they help organize some of the recipe demonstrations and tastings. Mississippi Master Gardener volunteers, a group of horticulture experts trained, organized, and overseen by Extension, staff booths and answer gardening questions. Perhaps Extension's most important role, however, is verifying that participating producers are stocking their booths with local foods, Matheny explains.
"We are a little different: we work with Extension to verify that our farmers are bringing local foods, because we want to buy local and not undercut our local farmers," Matheny says. "That's a big draw for consumers and farmers. Our focus is truly agriculture—we are growing our local community and economy through agriculture."
Joy Anderson, Extension's DeSoto County coordinator, says the vetting process began, in large part, because of one of the standards state-certified farmers' markets must meet: half or more of the agricultural products must be grown in Mississippi.
Matheny says the Hernando market's fresh, local foods taste better and are more nutritious than those that have traveled long distances. The market's family atmosphere welcomes everyone.
"It's all-inclusive," she emphasizes. "We've got the foodies and the growers who bring them what they want. We're very friendly to low-income people, too: they just swipe their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cards and get tokens, and nobody knows because all the tokens look so similar. Everyone has their small piece of the pie, and it's helping us be recognized as the healthiest county in the state."
The community connections that are being formed at and through the market mean the most to Matheny.
"Having a fresh, local farm product is a great resource, but the social connections—when we hold activities for all age groups and all people—we are bringing more people and welcoming more people to the market," she says. "It's been good for everybody.
"Our farmers' market is really a social day for everyone."

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Certification:: CE, ISO
Current / Section:: 6A per Section, 6A
Stage angle precision:: 5%
Temperature rise:: 80°MAX(Rated existing)
Atmosphere temperature:: -twenty °C – fifty °C
Dielectric power:: Lower 500V AC 1min/Large 1500V AC 1min
Stepper motor Insulation grade:: B
Packaging Information: Cartons or wooden box
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PhaseResistance (Ω) | .96 | one.17 | 1.39 | one.02 | .89 | 0.8 | 0.92 | .99 | 1.2 |
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Benefits of a Planetary Motor
A planetary motor has many benefits. Its compact design and low noise makes it a good choice for any application. Among its many uses, planetary gear motors are found in smart cars, consumer electronics, intelligent robots, communication equipment, and medical technology. They can even be found in smart homes! Read on to discover the benefits of a planetary gear motor. You'll be amazed at how versatile and useful it is!
Self-centering planet gears ensure a symmetrical force distribution
A planetary motor is a machine with multiple, interlocking planetary gears. The output torque is inversely proportional to the diameters of the planets, and the transmission size has no bearing on the output torque. A torsional stress analysis of the retaining structure for this type of motor found a maximum shear stress of 64 MPa, which is equivalent to a safety factor of 3.1 for 6061 aluminum. Self-centering planet gears are designed to ensure a symmetrical force distribution throughout the transmission system, with the weakest component being the pinions.
A planetary gearbox consists of ring and sun gears. The pitch diameters of ring and planet gears are nearly equal. The number of teeth on these gears determines the average gear-ratio per output revolution. This error is related to the manufacturing precision of the gears. The effect of this error is a noise or vibration characteristic of the planetary gearbox.
Another design for a planetary gearbox is a traction-based variant. This design eliminates the need for timing marks and other restrictive assembly conditions. The design of the ring gear is similar to that of a pencil sharpener mechanism. The ring gear is stationary while planet gears extend into cylindrical cutters. When placed on the sun's axis, the pencil sharpening mechanism revolves around the ring gear to sharpen the pencil.
The JDS eliminates the need for conventional planetary carriers and is mated with the self-centering planet gears by dual-function components. The dual-function components synchronize the rolling motion and traction of the gears. They also eliminate the need for a carrier and reduce the force distribution between the rotor and stator.
Metal gears
A planetary motor is a type of electric drive that uses a series of metal gears. These gears share a load attached to the output shaft to generate torque. The planetary motor is often CNC controlled, with extra-long shafts, which allow it to fit into very compact designs. These gears are available in sizes from seven millimeters to 12 millimeters. They can also be fitted with encoders.
Planetary gearing is widely used in various industrial applications, including automobile transmissions, off-road transmissions, and wheel drive motors. They are also used in bicycles to power the shift mechanism. Another use for planetary gearing is as a powertrain between an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. They are also used in forestry applications, such as debarking equipment and sawing. They can be used in other industries as well, such as pulp washers and asphalt mixers.
Planetary gear sets are composed of three types of gears: a sun gear, planet gears, and an outer ring. The sun gear transfers torque to the planet gears, and the planet gears mesh with the outer ring gear. Planet carriers are designed to deliver high-torque output at low speeds. These gears are mounted on carriers that are moved around the ring gear. The planet gears mesh with the ring gears, and the sun gear is mounted on a moveable carrier.
Plastic planetary gear motors are less expensive to produce than their metal counterparts. However, plastic gears suffer from reduced strength, rigidity, and load capacity. Metal gears are generally easier to manufacture and have less backlash. Plastic planetary gear motor bodies are also lighter and less noisy. Some of the largest plastic planetary gear motors are made in collaboration with leading suppliers. When buying a plastic planetary gear motor, be sure to consider what materials it is made of.
The Mega Torque Planetary Encoder DC Geared Motor is designed with a Japanese Mabuchi motor RS-775WC, a 200 RPM base motor. It is capable of achieving stall torque at low speeds, which is impossible to achieve with a simple DC motor. The planetary encoder provides five pulses per revolution, making it perfect for applications requiring precise torque or position. This motor requires an 8mm hex coupling for proper use.
This encoder has a high resolution and is suitable for ZGX38REE, ZGX45RGG and ZGX50RHH. It features a magnetic disc and poles and an optical disc to feed back signals. It can count paulses as the motor passes through a hall on the circuit board. Depending on the gearbox ratio, the encoder can provide up to two million transitions per rotation.
The planetary gear motor uses a planetary gear system to distribute torque in synchrony. This minimizes the risk of gear failure and increases the overall output capacity of the device. On the other hand, a spur gear motor is a simpler design and cheaper to produce. The spur gear motor works better for lower torque applications as each gear bears all the load. As such, the torque capacity of the spur gear motor is lower than that of a planetary gear motor.
The REV UltraPlanetary gearbox is designed for FTC and has three different output shaft options. The output shaft is made of 3/8-inch hex, allowing for flexible shaft replacement. These motors are a great value as they can be used to meet a wide range of power requirements. The REV UltraPlanetary gearbox and motor are available for very reasonable prices and a female 5mm hex output shaft can be used.
One of the most common questions when selecting a planetary motor is "How durable is it?" This is a question that's often asked by people. The good news is that planetary motors are extremely durable and can last for a long time if properly maintained. For more information, read on! This article will cover the durability and efficiency of planetary gearmotors and how you can choose the best one for your needs.
First and foremost, planetary gear sets are made from metal materials. This increases their lifespan. The planetary gear set is typically made of metals such as nickel-steel and steel. Some planetary gear motors use plastic. Steel-cut gears are the most durable and suitable for applications that require more torque. Nickel-steel gears are less durable, but are better able to hold lubricant.
Durability of planetary motor gearbox is important for applications requiring high torque versus speed. VEX VersaPlanetary gearboxes are designed for FRC(r) use and are incredibly durable. They are expensive, but they are highly customizable. The planetary gearbox can be removed for maintenance and replacement if necessary. Parts for the gearbox can be purchased separately. VEX VersaPlanetary gearboxes also feature a pinion clamped onto the motor shaft.
Dynamic modeling of the planetary gear transmission system is important for understanding its durability. In previous studies, uncoupled and coupled meshing models were used to investigate the effect of various design parameters on the vibration characteristics of the planetary gear system. This analysis requires considering the role of the mesh stiffness, structure stiffness, and moment of inertia. Moreover, dynamic models for planetary gear transmission require modeling the influence of multiple parameters, such as mesh stiffness and shaft location.
The planetary gear motor has multiple contact points that help the rotor rotate at different speeds and torques. This design is often used in stirrers and large vats of liquid. This type of motor has a low initial cost and is more commonly found in low-torque applications. A planetary gear motor has multiple contact points and is more effective for applications requiring high torque. Gear motors are often found in stirring mechanisms and conveyor belts.
A planetary gearmotor is typically made from four mechanically linked rotors. They can be used for various applications, including automotive and laboratory automation. The plastic input stage gears reduce noise at higher speeds. Steel gears can be used for high torques and a modified lubricant is often added to reduce weight and mass moment of inertia. Its low-cost design makes it an excellent choice for robots and other applications.
There are many different types of planetary gear motors available. A planetary gear motor has three gears, the sun gear and planet gears, with each sharing equal amounts of work. They are ideal for applications requiring high torque and low-resistance operation, but they require more parts than their single-stage counterparts. The steel cut gears are the most durable, and are often used in applications that require high speeds. The nickel-steel gears are more absorptive, which makes them better for holding lubricant.
A planetary gear motor is a high-performance electrical vehicle motor. A typical planetary gear motor has a 3000 rpm speed, a peak torque of 0.32 Nm, and is available in 24V, 36V, and 48V power supply. It is also quiet and efficient, requiring little maintenance and offering greater torque to a modern electric car. If you are thinking of buying a planetary gear motor, be sure to do a bit of research before purchasing one.
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Go offroad and create totally custom animations for your projects.
Sometimes you won't want to use the easing keywords that are included with CSS, or you will be using Web Animations or a JavaScript framework. In these cases, you can typically define your own curves (or equations), and this provides a lot of control over the feel of your project's animations.
- Custom easing allows you to give more personality to your projects.
- You can create cubic Bézier curves that resemble the default animation curves (ease-out, ease-in, etc.), but with emphasis in different places.
- Use JavaScript when you need more control over the animation timing and behavior, for example, elastic or bounce animations.
If you're animating with CSS, you'll find that you can define cubic Bézier curves to define the timing. In fact, the keywords ease
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map to predefined Bézier curves, which are detailed in the CSS transitions specification and the Web Animations specification.
These Bézier curves take four values, or two pairs of numbers, with each pair describing the X and Y coordinates of a cubic Bézier curve's control points. The starting point of the Bézier curve has coordinates (0, 0) and the ending point has coordinates (1, 1); you get to set the X and Y values of the two control points. The X values for the two control points must be between 0 and 1, and each control point's Y value can exceed the [0, 1] limit, although the spec isn't clear by how much.
Changing the X and Y value of each control point gives you a vastly different curve, and therefore a vastly different feel to your animation. For example, if the first control point is in the lower right area, the animation will be slow to start. If it's in the top left area, it's going to be fast to start. Conversely, if the second control point is in the bottom right area of the grid, it's going to be fast at the end; if it's in the top left, it will be slow to end.
For comparison, here are two curves: a typical ease-in-out curve and a custom curve:
See an animation with custom easing
The CSS for the custom curve is:
transition: transform 500ms cubic-bezier(0.465, 0.183, 0.153, 0.946);
The first two numbers are the X and Y coordinates of the first control point, and the second two numbers are the X and Y coordinates of the second control point.
Making a custom curve is a lot of fun, and it gives you significant control over the feel of the animation. For example, given the above curve, you can see that the curve resembles a classic ease-in-out curve, but with a shortened ease-in, or "getting started," portion, and an elongated slowdown at the end.
Experiment with this animation curve tool and see how the curve affects the feel of an animation.
Use JavaScript frameworks for more control
Sometimes you need even more control than a cubic Bézier curve can provide. If you wanted an elastic bounce feel, you might consider using a JavaScript framework, because this is a difficult effect to achieve with either CSS or Web Animations.
One powerful framework is GreenSock's TweenMax (or TweenLite if you want to keep things really lightweight), because you get a lot of control from it in a small JavaScript library, and it's a very mature codebase.
To use TweenMax, include this script in your page:
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/gsap/latest/TweenMax.min.js"></script>
After the script is in place, you can call TweenMax against your element and tell it which properties you'd like, along with any easing you'd like. There are many easing options that you can use; the code below uses an elastic ease-out:
var box = document.getElementById('my-box');
var animationDurationInSeconds = 1.5;
TweenMax.to(box, animationDurationInSeconds, {
x: '100%',
ease: 'Elastic.easeOut'
The TweenMax documentation highlights all the options you have here, so it's well worth a read.


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Though Frank Sinatra says it best, "I'm leaving today" isn't exactly accurate; my last day as a Microsoft employee was July 23rd, 2010. This post is almost two weeks delayed as Felicia and I have been on the road since the 26th, driving cross-country to the east coast; we also decided to leave Seattle in favor of New York, our home state.
Both decisions were extremely difficult to make, as I will miss all the brilliant people I worked with. Just being in their presence made me feel smarter, and we accomplished some amazing things together. Many were also my friends, making this a very heart-wrenching decision too. However, I joined Microsoft to bring Ruby and other open-source programming languages to the .NET framework, as well as to promote open-source practices in general, and I promised myself to ensure the truth of that statement throughout my Microsoft career. So, when my manager asked me, "what else would you want to work on other than Ruby," I started looking for a new job outside Microsoft.
While Microsoft's commitment to dynamic languages on .NET has been questioned many times, my tiny team has been excellent at suppressing those fears with quality implementations of Ruby and Python for .NET, compiler services and language embedding API called the Dynamic Language Runtime, and integration with .NET application frameworks like Silverlight and ASP.NET. And most recently the beginnings of IDE support for dynamic languages in Visual Studio. And all this released under an well-known open-source license, the Apache License (Version 2). This was only possible because my team had the freedom to do what we needed to do to counter those fears and run an effective open-source project
However, a year ago the team shrunk by half and our agility was severely limited. I'm omitting the internal reasons for this, as they are the typical big-company middle-management issues every software developer has. In short, the team is now very limited to do anything new, which is why the Visual Studio support for IronPython took so long. IronRuby's IDE support in Visual Studio hasn't been released yet for the same reasons. While this is just one example, many other roadblocks have cropped up that made my job not enjoyable anymore.
Overall, I see a serious lack of commitment to IronRuby, and dynamic language on .NET in general. At the time of my leaving Tomas and myself were the only Microsoft employees working on IronRuby. If this direction for dynamic languages on .NET is a path you do not want Microsoft to take, I strongly suggest you provide feedback to the team's management directly. Also, Jason Zander runs the Visual Studio team, which IronRuby, IronPython, and the DLR happen to be a part of, and is a big proponent of these dynamic languages efforts, so provide him with your thoughts as well.
That being said, I am still interested in implementing dynamic languages on .NET, so I will remain a IronRuby core-team member, ironically making me the first non-Microsoft core contributor. The bad-news is I will no longer be working on IronRuby full-time, but in the near future I'm definitely staying active. Also, Tomas will definitely continue working on IronRuby when he can; we weren't the last two people left for no reason. :-)
Given that Tomas and I will only be working part-time on IronRuby now, I invite the Ruby and .NET communities to come help us figure out how to continue the IronRuby project, assuming that Microsoft will eventually stop funding it. I'll start a thread on the IronRuby Mailing List shortly, so keep an eye on that if you'd like to help. [Update: here's the thread about the next steps for IronRuby. Join the list and discuss.]
While moving to New York is mainly a personal decision, as both my fiancée and I grew up there and our immediate families are still there, it was also for professional reasons; I've accepted a new position at Lab49, a financial technology consulting firm in New York City. I chose the financial industry not just because its dominance in New York, but because I see a lot of similarities between financial software and developer tools. Financial software serves a very technical user, much like programmers, but unlike programmers I know nothing these users, making it a challenging new space. It will be familiar as well, as Lab49 has done work with the new Technical Computing team, which many people who once worked on dynamic languages moved to. Lab49 was also very interested in my IronRuby and IronPython background, so it's a great next step for me.
I'm grateful to have worked on compilers full-time, outside of academia, while still contributing to open-source, especially at a company that hardly showed up on the open-source radar just 4 years ago. And at least one dynamic language at Microsoft is getting love; IE9's JavaScript engine, and Microsoft has awesome intentions with it. I'm totally a supporter of most things Microsoft is doing, and I look forward to working closely with them on financial problems. I'm just extremely disappointed with their decisions around dynamic languages on .NET. As one former-teammate's email signature read, "If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
I'm looking forward to this new chapter in both my life and my career. Not only am I living in the city that never sleeps, but I hope to build upon my dynamic language work and use it in an area completely new to me. While I expect to still be Ruby and .NET oriented, my posts will be about solving new problems, and should make for some good reading. Stay tuned, and thanks for all the support thus far.


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Sometimes I am stubborn, so stubborn, that even if it was me writing this post, and this one after, I have never given up about IE < 9 getters and setters ... "there must be a way", I have thought during last days, and ... yes, eventually I have found the way!
Test Driven Developed Solution
The Horrendous VBScript for IE
This wannabe Web programming language has been there, and hated, for ages ... but actually, if we learn all its gotchas we may end up thinking it is not that bad!The main problem is to learn this "whatever it is language" and trust me: you don't wanna do that in this HTML5 era ... do you ?!
Not Only Get & Let, There Is A "Set" As Well!
Where good old dojo experimental Observable stopped, I didn't.I kept investigating what the hack was going on behind the scene, forcing my fabulous IE9 to digest such Jurassic web programming language as VBScript is.
What I have discovered yesterday evening, is that when we set a property to a VBScript "unknown" object the Let definition is invoked only with primitives, where primitives are all those JavaScript variables which typeof is not equal to "object", with the exception of null value, and "function".
Once discovered this, the door to a proper implementation able to behave the same in all browsers became easy, and this is why I have introduced a new Class definition, the VBClass
What The Hell Is VBClass
VBClass is a global function able to create global factories, and these are the rules for a VBClass definition object:- the definition of a VBClass IS static, which means once we have defined the structure of our instances, we cannot add, delete, or change arbitrary the number of properties
- since VBScript does not accept properties that start with an underscore, the convention to define a property "protected" must be different, as example using the underscore at the end as Closure Library does for whatever reason
- if a definition property is a function, this will be considered an immutable method of each instance created via this factory
- if a definition property has a value, its reference can be changed at any time and with any kind of object, function included, but in latter case it will not be possible to attach method runtime, but it will surely be possible to invoke the function property via call or apply, specifying the current object
A Full Specs VBClass Example
VBClass("FullSpecs", {
constructor: {
value: function (arg) {
// calls the method
method: {
value: function (arg) {
// invokes the setter
this.getSet = arg;
getSet: {
get: function () {
// returns the "protected"
return this.getSet_;
set: function (value) {
// assign the "protected"
this.getSet_ = value;
getSet_: {
// default "protected" value
value: null
genericObject = {},
test = new FullSpecs(genericObject)
test.getSet === genericObject; // true!
Pros And Cons Of VBClass
These are a few of pros about the precedent described VBClass limits/behavior:- we have to think more about what we really need in our class, forgetting the completely dynamic JavaScript behaviour
- we are forced to follow a better convention for what we would like to define "protected properties"
- we can trust our defined methods, and we have to stick with them. This is a good/common approach if we consider a constructor.prototype runtime change a bad practice
- properties are properties, so there is nothing ambiguous about what is a method and what is a property: only the method can be invoked directly through the instance/variable/object, everything else is a property and there is no magic context injection there, neither for set functions
However, there are few cons to consider about this technique: unified behaviour through hosted VBScript objects means slower performances!
This means that VBClass created classes cannot be used for everything and there must be a valid reason to choose them in favour of normal JavaScript functions and their prototype nature.
A good reason could be, as example, the creation of those public object that would like to implement the coolness of a robust, cross platform, getters and setters implementation ... but be careful! If these objects are created hundred times during our application life-cycle, the performance impact could be massive and specially for older IE browsers.
Fortunately, with mobile browsers, IE 6/7 for Windows Phone 7 a part that I have not tested yet, the ideal scenario should fallback into the Object.create implementation, the one used in the main file, the only one needed, hopefully, as soon as users will update their browsers.
How To Use VBClass
Grab the source code or the minified version from my Google Code VBClass Project. Once all VBClass files are in the same folder, you can simply include the VBClass.loader.js on the top of your page and the rest of the magic is done.
Please copy VBClass locally to avoid round-trip and obtain better performances (also the trunk version in Google Code is not gzipped).
Have fun with VBClass ;)


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Pro Singles freight train.
Brad Baker, on the Llotd Bros Ducati, was a great 5th overall.
Jake Johnson, chased by Brad Baker and Kenny Coolbeth
42, Bryan Smith back on a Harley came 17th. This is a heat race. 15 Nicole Cheza made the main, came 12th. 59 Willie McCoy came 6th. 24 Logan Myers didn't make the main.
Shawn Baer on the Bonnevile Performance Triumph. Made the main, came 14th.
Mees and Halbert loving banging bars.
Mees 1st, Halbert 2nd, Johnson 3rd.
Photos courtesyt of AMA Pro Racing


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text: Recently I've made several guitars with sideports. Although sideports increasingly have gained acceptance, they remain somewhat controversial. Sideports act as a kind of monitor for the player, and if discreet in size, do not change in any negative way what the audience hears (or likely sees). When they are open they may raise the main air resonance of the guitar, which can affect the overtone/harmonic responses of the instrument. I provide plugs for the ports to compensate for any undesirable changes that might occur and to give the guitarist choice in different playing conditions.


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The Domestic Violence Unit is a specialized investigative office created to respond to the problem of domestic violence in the City of Dallas. The Unit is comprised of a sergeant, detectives, a crime analyst, and a civilian counselor. Since its creation in 1987, the Unit has worked diligently to curb the problem of domestic violence by investigating and preparing cases against persons responsible for domestic assaults.
In addition to the investigative duties, the Unit is involved in training and community education related to domestic violence. Officers from the Domestic Violence Unit regularly provide training to other police agencies by sponsoring seminars on domestic violence and presenting in-service classes for area police officers on their responsibilities in domestic violence cases.
Domestic violence is a crime that can victimize any person regardless of race, gender, or background. The Dallas Police Department and the Domestic Violence Unit stand committed to direct intervention on behalf of all victims of domestic violence.
Community Involvement
The Domestic Violence Unit actively works to prevent domestic violence through its association with community groups. The Unit is also involved in community education programs related to domestic violence and participates in workshops and conferences aimed at broadening public awareness of the tragedy of this type of crime. The Unit is closely associated with organizations that deal directly with the problem of domestic violence. Its representatives meet regularly with the City of Dallas Domestic Violence Task Force, Lawyers Against Domestic Violence, the Parkland Hospital Battered Women's Intervention Project, and area women's shelters, to share information and coordinate efforts and resources.


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Mack Brings Wide Range of Class 8 Refuse Trucks to WasteExpo
GREENSBORO, NC (April 23, 2014) – Mack Trucks' refuse industry leadership is on full display at WasteExpo 2014 with four Mack® refuse trucks embodying the company's dedication to reliability and durability. WasteExpo takes place at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center from April 29 to May 1.
Visitors to Mack's display in booth No. 1920 will see firsthand three Mack TerraPro® Cabover models and one Mack Granite® Axle Forward. Built to customer specifications, Mack's refuse vehicles offer best-in-class maneuverability, while offering customers the power and performance to easily manage the job.
"Mack is the frontrunner in the refuse industry, and these models demonstrate the application excellence which serves our customers so well," said Curtis Dorwart, Mack refuse product marketing manager. "Mack's proven record of offering durable, maneuverable refuse vehicles is why we're an industry leader in both diesel and natural gas-powered refuse vehicles."
Mack models on display at WasteExpo 2014 include:
Mack TerraPro Cabover
- Engine: Cummins Westport ISL G – natural gas
- Transmission: Allison 3000 RDS five speed
- Rear Suspension: mRIDE, three-leaf 40,000 lbs.
- Body: Heil 28 cu yd. Half Pack Freedom front-end loader
Mack TerraPro Cabover
- Engine: Mack MP7-325M
- Transmission: Allison 4500 RDS six speed
- Body: McNeilus 40 cu yd. Atlantic front-end loader
Mack TerraPro Cabover
- Engine: Mack MP7-345R
- Transmission: Allison 4500 RDS six speed
- Body: Heil 28 cu yd. Half Pack front-end loader
Mack Granite Axle Forward
- Engine: Mack MP7-405M
- Transmission: Allison 4500 RDS six speed
- Galbreath AF 60,000 lb. Hoist with Pioneer Adjustable Gantry Tarper
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On The Needles:(0:32)This week's episode is sponsored by:
Do you have a favorite fall scent? We know that Bar-Maids customers do. Nine years as a top seller, Betty Boo, is a mix of bitter orange and orchid. Sounds a bit floral – right? But Betty is NOT floral…she's actually quite spicy. Little Pumpkin has very devoted fans with its fresh from the oven top notes of buttery pumpkin not to be outdone by those middle notes of clove and allspice. Hot Toddy, introduced last year, was such a hit that he's back. Hot buttered rum – oh yum! Queen's Bun's, a custom scent made exclusively for Jimmy Bean's Wools last year can only be described as cinnamon buns fresh from the oven and delicious enough for royalty. If your local store doesn't have these in stock, ask them to special order them for you. Otherwise, order on line at www.bar-maids.com
Purlescence Yarns is the Bay Area's destination yarn shop. From the best in spinning and weaving equipment to luxurious yarns and fibers, we have what you need to make your fibery dreams a reality. We're always happy to provide mail order service for Knitmore Girls listeners. Call us today, it'll be on its way!
Gigi finished her Jack o'Lantern sock from Marigoldjen.etsy.com in the Jack colorway, and she cast on her Witchy Woman socks from Lollipop Yarns. Jasmin has knitted another feather for the Leftie in the #Behmalong. Gigi is lamenting that it takes her much longer now to knit a feather on her Leftie.
Jasmin is trying to finish the Very Hungry Caterpillar sweater she has knitted for Genevieve. She mentions our couture button tutorial. She mentions Lori, from Deerfield Creations, who made lovely caterpillar buttons just for her.
Jasmin talks about the labels she is sewing into the garments. She knitted the Cascade cardigan out of Cascade Greenland.
Gigi has been knitting two pairs of mojo socks, one out of Patons Kroy and one out of Fortissima. Jasmin has cast on the Little Oak cardigan, from Coastal Kids by Alana Dakos, out of Bugga from Cephalopod yarns, in the Nebraska Conehead colorway. Jasmin wants to knit the Gnarled Oak cardigan for herself. We mention the Button Emporium.
Gigi has been making Something Fishy socks, and created a Frankenfisk sock. Jasmin raves about the movie Frankenfish.
Gigi also worked on her Crocus Vernus sock, from the Knitters Curiosity Cabinet. Jasmin mentions Judith MacKenzie McCuin.
Our word for the Behmalong is Wichteln. Weihnachten = Christmas. Check out and add pictures to the #Behmalong, #operationsockdrawer and on Everlapse. We are embedding them on the show notes every week.
Also Halos of Hope-athon #podcasterthrowdown.
#PodcasterThrowdown: Hats for Halos of Hope, Halos of Hope Guidelines.
We got supplemental guidelines from a former Chemo patient:
- Yarn should not be scratchy, check for softness against your wrist or your neck
- Hat should be long enough to cover the ears, go over the forehead, and the back of the head.
- Lighter weight hats are more useful and comfortable than bulky ones.
- Slouchy hats need to have enough of a band to keep the hat from slipping of the head.
Our prizes for the Throwdown are:
Sivia Harding's Sister Joan Shawl, knit by Gigi
Jasmin's handspun:
- In the Air Tonight, superwash, 328yds, Crown Mountain Farms
- Violet Cherry, Pidgeonroof Studios, 402 Superwash BFL (187) 374 yds
- Atlantis 402 Superwash Merino, Crown Mountain Farms, 500 yds
You can follow this on twitter and instagram using #podcasterthrowdown
We asked what our listeners think would be a good bonus if we win, and you can add your suggestion here.
The Famous Last Words Contest will wrap up by Thanksgiving, and we announce prizes:
LoLo Bar Trio
Erin Lane small drawstring bag
Tess Yarns Kitten
In Stitches:(23:58)
Gigi has been wearing wool socks, and bed socks out of Fancy Image Yarn.
Jasmin also has been wearing clear Converse from Journeys with her 15 color rainbow socks by FabFunkyFibres, and rainbow-ish socks out of Trekking.
We mention Commuter Knitter and Down Cellar Studio.
Jasmin wore her Tangled Yoke cardigan, out of Interweave Magazine, out of hand spun yarn. She mentioned Meghan from the Stitch It podcast. Also, she wore her Juno Regina Shawl out of Handmaiden Seasilk, a Miriam Felton Knitty.com design.
Genevieve wore her Yoked cardigan, a Hannah Fettig design, out of Cascade Greenland, and her Very Hungry Caterpillar cardigan.
This week we purloin from Benjamin Levisay from the Fiber Hooligan podcast.
We mention Grimm, Rizzoli and Isles, Borgias, Once Upon A Time, Game of Thrones, North and South(British), Buffy, Mad Men, and Hairspray.
This week we are reviewing the Morehouse Merino Critter Collection, Volumes I-IV. [Kindle versionavailable here. You can print off of it, sort of.]
Morehouse Merino homepage . We mention Lisa Souza and Abstract Fiber.
Straw Into Gold:(48:38)
Gigi has been spinning much better now with the new Woolee Winder, and she is loving the 50/50 silk merino from Red Fish Dyeworks, that she is spinning on her Julia wheel.
And Sew On:(50:10)
We have been working on Genevieve's Halloween costume.
Jasmin mentions the Geeky Girls knit Videocast, hosted by CC and Damaris.


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Musical instruments- the scientific principles behind them
This project is an opportunity for you to explore the scientific principles behind musical instruments.
As a part of this project, you can create your own musical instrument that is one of the more fun and rewarding means of fulfilling the project requirements.
Project description
After collecting information about different musical instruments and how they work, you focus in one specific instrument and try to make a working model of that instrument. Later,
you can demonstrate your creation in class by playing a simple tune or whatever your creation is capable of. A written report
also be done, but it can be short (2-4 pages) describing the design, how your instrument produces sound, and the instrument's frequency range. You might digitally sample a note or two from your instrument and look at the spectrum and see if you can relate it to the physical characteristics of the instrument.
Details of this project
More details or support for this project is available for the members of
web site. Material needed for experiment or a science kit about this title may be available at MiniScience.com.


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Meet my teddy bear. I have deliberately called him Jesus in order to insult religion because - let's face it - religion is claptrap and deserves to be insulted. So now I have called him Jesus I am waiting for the thought police to come and get me. They can lock me up with thieves and vagabonds for fifteen days or more or perhaps instead give me forty lashes. Such enlightened notions of justice have recently emerged from that shining beacon of civilisation and fair play that is Sudan. My thoughts tonight are with 54 year old British teacher Gillian Gibbons as she languishes in a Khartoum jail. I am thinking of renaming our cat Mohammad so that I can stand on the back step in dark winter nights yelling "Mohammad!" at the top of my voice. The neighbours would think I was stark raving bonkers. They'd be right.
Jesus - off for his holidays in Sudan.


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It was almost one year ago when Bloomberg News reported on these remarks by Mark Mobius, executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management's emerging markets group:
"There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner because we haven't solved any of the things that caused the previous crisis," Mobius said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan inTokyotoday in response to a question about price swings. "Are the derivatives regulated? No. Are you still getting growth in derivatives? Yes."
I have frequently complained about the failed attempt at financial reform, known as the Dodd-Frank Act. Two years ago, I wrote a piece entitled, "Financial Reform Bill Exposed As Hoax" wherein I expressed my outrage that the financial reform effort had become a charade. The final product resulting from all of the grandstanding and backroom deals – the Dodd–Frank Act – had become nothing more than a hoax on the American public. My essay included the reactions of five commentators, who were similarly dismayed. I concluded the posting with this remark:
The bill that is supposed to save us from another financial crisis does nothing to accomplish that objective. Once this 2,000-page farce is signed into law, watch for the reactions. It will be interesting to sort out the clear-thinkers from the Kool-Aid drinkers.
During the past few days, there has been a chorus of commentary calling for a renewed effort toward financial reform. We have seen a torrent of reports on the misadventures of The London Whale at JP Morgan Chase, whose outrageous derivatives wager has cost the firm uncounted billions. By the time this deal is unwound, the originally-reported loss of $2 billion will likely be dwarfed.
Former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, has made a hobby of writing blog postings about "what President Obama needs to do". Of course, President Obama never follows Professor Reich's recommendations, which might explain why Mitt Romney has been overtaking Obama in the opinion polls. On May 16, Professor Reich was downright critical of the President, comparing him to the dog in a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle involving Sherlock Holmes, Silver Blaze. The President's feeble remarks about JPMorgan's latest derivatives fiasco overlooked the responsibility of Jamie Dimon – obviously annoying Professor Reich, who shared this reaction:
Not a word about Jamie Dimon's tireless campaign to eviscerate the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill; his loud and repeated charge that the Street's near meltdown in 2008 didn't warrant more financial regulation; his leadership of Wall Street's brazen lobbying campaign to delay the Volcker Rule under Dodd-Frank, which is still delayed; and his efforts to make that rule meaningless by widening a loophole allowing banks to use commercial deposits to "hedge" (that is, make offsetting bets) their derivative trades.
Nor any mention Dimon's outrageous flaunting of Dodd-Frank and of the Volcker Rule by setting up a special division in the bank to make huge (and hugely profitable, when the bets paid off) derivative trades disguised as hedges.
Nor Dimon's dual role as both chairman and CEO of JPMorgan (frowned on my experts in corporate governance) for which he collected a whopping $23 million this year, and $23 million in 2010 and 2011 in addition to a $17 million bonus.
Even if Obama didn't want to criticize Dimon, at the very least he could have used the occasion to come out squarely in favor of tougher financial regulation. It's the perfect time for him to call for resurrecting the Glass-Steagall Act, of which the Volcker Rule – with its giant loophole for hedges – is a pale and inadequate substitute.
And for breaking up the biggest banks and setting a cap on their size, as the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve recommended several weeks ago.
This was Professor Reich's second consecutive reference within a week to The Dallas Fed's Annual Report, which featured an essay by Harvey Rosenblum, the head of the Dallas Fed's Research Department and the former president of the National Association for Business Economics. Rosenblum's essay provided an historical analysis of the events leading up to the 2008 financial crisis and the regulatory efforts which resulted from that catastrophe – particularly the Dodd-Frank Act. Beyond that, Rosenblum emphasized why those "too-big-to-fail" (TBTF) banks have actually grown since the enactment of Dodd-Frank:
The TBTF survivors of the financial crisis look a lot like they did in 2008. They maintain corporate cultures based on the short-term incentives of fees and bonuses derived from increased oligopoly power. They remain difficult to control because they have the lawyers and the money to resist the pressures of federal regulation. Just as important, their significant presence in dozens of states confers enormous political clout in their quest to refocus banking statutes and regulatory enforcement to their advantage.
Last year, former Kansas City Fed-head, Thomas Hoenig discussed the problems created by the TBTFs, which he characterized as "systemically important financial institutions" – or "SIFIs":
… I suggest that the problem with SIFIs is they are fundamentally inconsistent with capitalism. They are inherently destabilizing to global markets and detrimental to world growth. So long as the concept of a SIFI exists, and there are institutions so powerful and considered so important that they require special support and different rules, the future of capitalism is at risk and our market economy is in peril.
Although the huge derivatives loss by JPMorgan Chase has motivated a number of commentators to issue warnings about the risk of another financial crisis, there had been plenty of admonitions emphasizing the risks of the next financial meltdown, which were published long before the London Whale was beached. Back in January, G. Timothy Haight wrote an inspiring piece for the pro-Republican Orange County Register, criticizing the failure of our government to address the systemic risk which brought about the catastrophe of 2008:
In response to widespread criticism associated with the financial collapse, Congress has enacted a number of reforms aimed at curbing abuses at financial institutions. Legislation, such as the Dodd-Frank and Consumer Protection Act, was trumpeted as ensuring that another financial meltdown would be avoided. Such reactionary regulation was certain to pacify U.S. taxpayers.
Unfortunately, legislation enacted does not solve the fundamental problem. It simply provides cover for those who were asleep at the wheel, while ignoring the underlying cause of the crisis.
More than three years after the calamity, have we solved the dilemma we found ourselves in late 2008? Can we rest assured that a future bailout will not occur? Are financial institutions no longer "too big to fail?"
Regrettably, the answer, in each case, is a resounding no.
Last month, Michael T. Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog wrote an essay for the Seeking Alpha website, enumerating the 22 Red Flags Indicating Serious Doom Is Coming for Global Financial Markets. Of particular interest was red flag #22:
The 9 largest U.S. banks have a total of 228.72 trillion dollars of exposure to derivatives. That is approximately 3 times the size of the entire global economy. It is a financial bubble so immense in size that it is nearly impossible to fully comprehend how large it is.
The multi-billion dollar derivatives loss by JPMorgan Chase demonstrates that the sham "financial reform" cannot prevent another financial crisis. The banks assume that there will be more taxpayer-funded bailouts available, when the inevitable train wreck occurs. The Federal Reserve will be expected to provide another round of quantitative easing to keep everyone happy. As a result, nothing will be done to strengthen financial reform as a result of this episode. The megabanks were able to survive the storm of indignation in the wake of the 2008 crisis and they will be able ride-out the current wave of public outrage.
As Election Day approaches, Team Obama is afraid that the voters will wake up to the fact that the administration itself is to blame for sabotaging financial reform. They are hoping that the public won't be reminded that two years ago, Simon Johnson (former chief economist of the IMF) wrote an essay entitled, "Creating the Next Crisis" in which he provided this warning:
On the critical dimension of excessive bank size and what it implies for systemic risk, there was a concerted effort by Senators Ted Kaufman and Sherrod Brown to impose a size cap on the largest banks – very much in accordance with the spirit of the original "Volcker Rule" proposed in January 2010 by Obama himself.
In an almost unbelievable volte face, for reasons that remain somewhat mysterious, Obama's administration itself shot down this approach. "If enacted, Brown-Kaufman would have broken up the six biggest banks inAmerica," a senior Treasury official said. "If we'd been for it, it probably would have happened. But we weren't, so it didn't."
Whether the world economy grows now at 4% or 5% matters, but it does not much affect our medium-term prospects. The US financial sector received an unconditional bailout – and is not now facing any kind of meaningful re-regulation. We are setting ourselves up, without question, for another boom based on excessive and reckless risk-taking at the heart of the world's financial system. This can end only one way: badly.
The public can forget a good deal of information in two years. They need to be reminded about those early reactions to the Obama administration's subversion of financial reform. At her Naked Capitalism website, Yves Smith served up some negative opinions concerning the bill, along with her own cutting commentary in June of 2010:
I want the word "reform" back. Between health care "reform" and financial services "reform," Obama, his operatives, and media cheerleaders are trying to depict both initiatives as being far more salutary and far-reaching than they are. This abuse of language is yet another case of the Obama Administration using branding to cover up substantive shortcomings. In the short run it might fool quite a few people, just as BP's efforts to position itself as an environmentally responsible company did.
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So what does the bill accomplish? It inconveniences banks around the margin while failing to reduce the odds of a recurrence of a major financial crisis.
On May 17, Noam Scheiber explained why the White House is "sweating" the JPMorgan controversy:
In particular, the transaction appears to have been a type of proprietary trade – which is to say, a trade that a bank undertakes to make money for itself, not its clients. And these trades were supposed to have been outlawed by the "Volcker Rule" provision of Obama's financial reform law, at least at federally-backed banks like JP Morgan. The administration is naturally worried that, having touted the law as an end to the financial shenanigans that brought us the 2008 crisis, it will look feckless instead.
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But it turns out that there's an additional twist here. The concern for the White House isn't just that the law could look weak, making it a less than compelling selling point for Obama's re-election campaign. It's that the administration could be blamed for the weakness. It's one thing if you fought for a tough law and didn't entirely succeed. It's quite another thing if it starts to look like you undermined the law behind the scenes. In that case, the administration could look duplicitous, not merely ineffectual. And that's the narrative you see the administration trying to preempt . . .
When the next financial crisis begins, be sure to credit President Obama as the Facilitator-In-Chief.


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ASU engineers demonstrate the world's first white lasers
Above: This schematic illustrates the novel nanosheet with three parallel segments created by the researchers, each supporting laser action in one of three elementary colors. The device is capable of lasing in any visible color, completely tunable from red, green to blue, or any color in between. When the total field is collected, a white color emerges. Photograph: ASU/Nature Nanotechnology
More luminous and energy efficient than LEDs, white lasers look to be the future in lighting and Li-Fi, or light-based wireless communication
While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light.
Researchers at Arizona State University have solved the puzzle. They have proven that semiconductor lasers are capable of emitting over the full visible color spectrum, which is necessary to produce a white laser.
The researchers have created a novel nanosheet — a thin layer of semiconductor that measures roughly one-fifth of the thickness of human hair in size with a thickness that is roughly one-thousandth of the thickness of human hair — with three parallel segments, each supporting laser action in one of three elementary colors. The device is capable of lasing in any visible color, completely tunable from red, green to blue, or any color in between. When the total field is collected, a white color emerges.
The researchers, engineers in ASU's Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, published their findings in the July 2015 issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Cun-Zheng Ning, professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, authored the paper, "A monolithic white laser," with his doctoral students Fan Fan, Sunay Turkdogan, Zhicheng Liu and David Shelhammer. Turkdogan and Liu completed their doctoral degrees after this research.
The technological advance puts lasers one step closer to being a mainstream light source and potential replacement or alternative to light emitting diodes (LEDs). Lasers are brighter, more energy efficient and can potentially provide more accurate and vivid colors for displays like computer screens and televisions. Ning's group has already shown that their structures could cover as much as 70 percent more colors than the current display industry standard.
Another important application could be in the future of visible light communication in which the same room lighting systems could be used for both illumination and communication. The technology under development is called Li-Fi for light-based wireless communication, as opposed to the more prevailing Wi-Fi, using radio waves. Li-Fi could be more than 10 times faster than current Wi-Fi, and white laser Li-Fi could be 10 to 100 times faster than LED based Li-Fi currently still under development.
"The concept of white lasers first seems counterintuitive because the light from a typical laser contains exactly one color, a specific wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum, rather than a broad-range of different wavelengths. White light is typically viewed as a complete mixture of all of the wavelengths of the visible spectrum," said Ning, who also spent extended time at Tsinghua University in China during several years of the research.
In typical LED-based lighting, a blue LED is coated with phosphor materials to convert a portion of the blue light to green, yellow and red light. This mixture of colored light will be perceived by humans as white light and can therefore be used for general illumination.
Sandia National Labs in 2011 produced high-quality white light from four separate large lasers. The researchers showed that the human eye is as comfortable with white light generated by diode lasers as with that produced by LEDs, inspiring others to advance the technology.
"While this pioneering proof-of-concept demonstration is impressive, those independent lasers cannot be used for room lighting or in displays," Ning said. "A single tiny piece of semiconductor material emitting laser light in all colors or in white is desired."
Semiconductors, usually a solid chemical element or compound arranged into crystals, are widely used for computer chips or for light generation in telecommunication systems. They have interesting optical properties and are used to make lasers and LEDs because they can emit light of a specific color when a voltage is applied to them. The most preferred light emitting material for semiconductors is indium gallium nitride, though other materials such as cadmium sulfide and cadmium selenide also are used for emitting visible colors.
The main challenge, the researchers noted, lies in the way light emitting semiconductor materials are grown and how they work to emit light of different colors. Typically a given semiconductor emits light of a single color— blue, green or red— that is determined by a unique atomic structure and energy bandgap.
The "lattice constant" represents the distance between the atoms. To produce all possible wavelengths in the visible spectral range you need several semiconductors of very different lattice constants and energy bandgaps.
"Our goal is to achieve a single semiconductor piece capable of laser operation in the three fundamental lasing colors. The piece should be small enough, so that people can perceive only one overall mixed color, instead of three individual colors," said Fan. "But it was not easy."
"The key obstacle is an issue called lattice mismatch, or the lattice constant being too different for the various materials required," Liu said. "We have not been able to grow different semiconductor crystals together in high enough quality, using traditional techniques, if their lattice constants are too different."
The most desired solution, according to Ning, would be to have a single semiconductor structure that emits all needed colors. He and his graduate students turned to nanotechnology to achieve their milestone.
The key is that at nanometer scale larger mismatches can be better tolerated than in traditional growth techniques for bulk materials. High-quality crystals can be grown even with large mismatch of different lattice constants.
Recognizing this unique possibility early on, Ning's group started pursuing the distinctive properties of nanomaterials, such as nanowires or nanosheets, more than 10 years ago. He and his students have been researching various nanomaterials to see how far they could push the limit of advantages of nanomaterials to explore the high crystal quality growth of very dissimilar materials.
Six years ago, under U.S. Army Research Office funding, they demonstrated that one could indeed grow nanowire materials in a wide range of energy bandgaps so that color tunable lasing from red to green can be achieved on a single substrate of about one centimeter long. Later on they realized simultaneous laser operation in green and red from a single semiconductor nanosheet or nanowires. These achievements triggered Ning's thought to push the envelope further to see if a single white laser is ever possible.
Blue, necessary to produce white, proved to be a greater challenge with its wide energy bandgap and very different material properties.
"We have struggled for almost two years to grow blue emitting materials in nanosheet form, which is required to demonstrate eventual white lasers, " said Turkdogan, who is now assistant professor at University of Yalova in Turkey.
After exhaustive research, the group finally came up with a strategy to create the required shape first, and then convert the materials into the right alloy contents to emit the blue color. Turkdogan said, "To the best of our knowledge, our unique growth strategy is the first demonstration of an interesting growth process called dual ion exchange process that enabled the needed structure."
This strategy of decoupling structural shapes and composition represents a major change of strategy and an important breakthrough that finally made it possible to grow a single piece of structure containing three segments of different semiconductors emitting all needed colors and the white lasers possible. Turkdogan said that, "this is not the case, typically, in the material growth where shapes and compositions are achieved simultaneously."
While this first proof of concept is important, significant obstacles remain to make such white lasers applicable for real-life lighting or display applications. One of crucial next steps is to achieve the similar white lasers under the drive of a battery. For the present demonstration, the researchers had to use a laser light to pump electrons to emit light. This experimental effort demonstrates the key first material requirement and will lay the groundwork for the eventual white lasers under electrical operation.
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