Industry fair honors academy for scientific achievements
Three scientific achievements developed by the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) have won prizes in recent 2018 China International Industry Fair, the CAS said.
Special honor, top prize of the fair, was given to hyperspectral imaging satellite Gaofen 5 developed and produced by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the CAS. The satellite was launched off the back of a Long March 4C rocket on May 9 this year as part of the country's high-resolution Earth observation project.
The two projects that won silver prizes of innovation were an atmospheric sounder which can greatly increase the accuracy of prediction on typhoon's route and the rainfalls it brings, and a phase change memory which realizes a high-speed reversible operation of writing and erasing that only takes 700 picoseconds, cutting the power dissipation down by 90 percent than the general phase change memory devices.
According to the CAS, the FY4 Geostationary Interferometric Infrared Sounder project is also accomplished by Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of the CAS. It's the world's first interferometric infrared hyper-spectral sounder that works on the 36,000-kilometer geostationary orbit and the only one which can take measurements of three-dimensional atmospheric temperature and humidity from interference of split light beams.
And the Fastest Phase Change Material and Embeded Phase Change Memory project from Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS, plays an important role on helping our nation to break through foreign technical barriers and independently develop phase change memory chips.
At the section of the CAS of the fair, visitors can find more than 100 scientific and technological products from its 25 branches. The Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology, CAS, brought its Eflextech earphone cable with high elasticity which can stretch when being used. Such technology is now also applied in mobile phone charging cable and will be used on clothes.