Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8227331 | Method for depositing a solder material on a substrate The present invention is related to a method for providing solder material on a predetermined area on a substrate. In various embodiments, the solder material is deposited on a wetting layer which lies within an area on a substrate having a confinement layer. Furthe... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8062931 | Surface treatment and passivation of AlGaN/GaN HEMT In the preferred embodiments, a method to reduce gate leakage and dispersion of group III-nitride field effect devices covered with a thin in-situ SiN layer is provided. This can be obtained by introducing a second passivation layer on top of the in-situ SiN-layer, ... | 11/22/2011 |
