Abstract: A holder for hard-wired tablet/smartphone as equipment console is provided. The holder provides (a) 6 degrees of freedom (3 translational and 3 rotational) adjustments for locking the tablet/smartphone position and orientation; (b) provision for emergency-stop and or any other important hardwired button such Has RESET, ON/OFF, etc; (c) concealed cabling for tablet/smartphone charger and E-stop and or any other important hardwired button such as RESET, ON/OFF, jog-wheel arrangement etc; (d) swivel corners matching edges of the various tablet/smartphone sizes; and (e) provision for jog-wheel or thumb-wheel arrangement for actuator or cross-head movement.

Abstract: A holder for hard-wired tablet/smartphone as equipment console is provided. The holder provides (a) 6 degrees of freedom (3 translational and 3 rotational) adjustments for locking the tablet/smartphone position and orientation; (b) provision for emergency-stop and or any other important hardwired button such as RESET, ON/OFF, etc; (c) concealed cabling for tablet/smartphone charger and E-stop and or any other important hardwired button such as RESET, ON/OFF, jog-wheel arrangement etc; (d) swivel corners matching edges of the various tablet/smartphone sizes; and (e) provision for jog-wheel or thumb-wheel arrangement for actuator or cross-head movement.

Abstract: A shipper having an outer housing with a temperature sensitive payload and a temperature/location tracker disposed therein. The outer housing has a body having an interior surface bounding a compartment that is accessed through an opening. A first panel is coupled with the body and configured to extend over at least a portion of the opening, with a first access port extending through the first panel. The payload and temperature/location tracker are disposed within the compartment of the body. The temperature/location tracker includes a first temperature probe, a GPS receiver, a cellular modem, and a GPS antenna. The GPS antenna is disposed so as to be aligned with the first access port when the shipper is in a fully assembled state such that the GPS antenna is directly accessible through the first access port. The temperature/location tracker monitors and periodically transmits temperature and location values of the shipper over a cellular communication network.

Abstract: A shipper having an outer housing with a temperature sensitive payload and a temperature/location tracker disposed therein. The outer housing has a body having an interior surface bounding a compartment that is accessed through an opening. A first panel is coupled with the body and configured to extend over at least a portion of the opening, with a first access port extending through the first panel. The payload and temperature/location tracker are disposed within the compartment of the body. The temperature/location tracker includes a first temperature probe, a GPS receiver, a cellular modem, and a GPS antenna. The GPS antenna is disposed so as to be aligned with the first access port when the shipper is in a fully assembled state such that the GPS antenna is directly accessible through the first access port. The temperature/location tracker monitors and periodically transmits temperature and location values of the shipper over a cellular communication network.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of high purity silane, suitable for forming thin layer silicon structures in various semiconductor devices and high purity poly- and single crystal silicon for a variety of applications, is provided. Synthesis of high-purity silane starts with a temperature assisted reaction of metallurgical silicon with alcohol in the presence of a catalyst. Alcoxysilanes formed in the silicon-alcohol reaction are separated from other products and purified. Simultaneous reduction and oxidation of alcoxysilanes produces gaseous silane and liquid secondary products, including, active part of a catalyst, tetra-alcoxysilanes, and impurity compounds having silicon-hydrogen bonds. Silane is purified by an impurity adsorption technique. Unreacted alcohol is extracted and returned to the reaction with silicon. Concentrated mixture of alcoxysilanes undergoes simultaneous oxidation and reduction in the presence of a catalyst at the temperature -20.degree. C. to +40.degree. C. during 1 to 50 hours.

Abstract: A piezoceramic material comprising PbTiO.sub.3, PbZrO.sub.3, PbB'.sub.1-.alpha. B".sub..alpha. O.sub.3, and PbB'".sub.1-.alpha. B.sub..alpha..sup.IV O.sub.3, wherein B' is selected from the group consisting of Nb.sup.5+, W.sup.6+ ; B" is selected from the group consisting of Zn.sup.2+, Mg.sup.2+, Co.sup.2+, Mn.sup.2+, Ni.sup.2+ ; B'" is selected from the group consisting of Nb.sup.5+, W.sup.6+ ; B.sup.IV is selected from the group consisting of Zn.sup.2+, Mg.sup.2+, Co.sup.2+, Ni.sup.2+ ; .alpha.=1/2 for W.sup.6+ and 1/3 for Nb.sup.5+, with B' and B"' being equal to Nb.sup.5+, and B" being equal to Ni.sup.2+, B.sup.IV is neither equal to Zn.sup.2+ nor to Mn.sup.2+ ; with B' and B'" being equal to Nb.sup.5+, B" being equal to Mg.sup.2+, B.sup.IV is not equal to Mn.sup.2+, and the content of the above components being as follows, molar percent:______________________________________ PbTiO.sub.3 30.0 to 52.5 PbB.sub.1-.alpha. ' B.sub..alpha. "O.sub.3 1.5 to 28.4 PbZrO.sub.3 25.0 to 47.6 PbB.sub.1-.alpha. '" B.