It might not seem like scraping the top of a cold stick of butter with a knife could be a scientific test, but engineers say the process is very similar to the "scratch test," which is perhaps the ...

KLA has come out with a highly accurate scratch test which can yield a fount of valuable information regarding scratch hardness, mar resistance, coating adhesion, delamination of film, and failure ...

Novel thin films and coatings find use in a broad range of applications including LEDs, solar panels, displays and semiconductors. Although several established techniques are available for determining ...

• Engineers can use hardness testing to verify the composition or heat-treatment history of materials. • Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers, and Shore are common hardness tests. Their use depends on the ...

That $10,000 Android we looked at a couple weeks back, the Vertu Ti, might not have been the most impressive phone in the specs department, but it did have one killer feature: a screen made of ...