Research promises semiconductor manufacturing cost and production savings up to 15 percent, potentially increasing profit per chip significantly.
May 25th, 2011
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Weizmann Institute scientists set a new record for measuring magnetic vibrations using the spin of a single atom: 100 times more accurate than the previous record.
May 25th, 2011
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The Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation, has been selected to develop a new type of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) gyroscope technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Microscale Rate Integrating Gyroscope program.
May 25th, 2011
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding nearly $2.25 million to 10 small companies to support the development of new technologies for protecting the environment and public health.
May 25th, 2011
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The electronic and magnetic properties of thin films depend on the number of atomic layers which are stacked on top of each other.
May 25th, 2011
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UK companies to visit Swiss centres of excellence to research potential for collaboration.
May 25th, 2011
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For the first time in the history of cell biology, cells will compete to become the world's fastest cells.
May 25th, 2011
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The Institute of Microelectronics (IME), an institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research have announced today their cooperation with TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, on breakthrough projects in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), packaging and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
May 25th, 2011
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NVIDIA joins the growing fabless community of imec's core CMOS program. The collaboration focuses on the system design impact of advanced devices, interconnect, including 3D, and lithography implications for the sub-20nm node.
May 25th, 2011
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A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Olympus Singapore, a leader in high precision microscope technology, jointly launched the IMB-Olympus Microscopy Suite in IMB. This suite, equipped with state-of-the-art microscopes with nano-imaging capabilities, will allow scientists to see individual proteins inside a living cell, which is not possible with conventional microscopy.
May 25th, 2011
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Researchers at the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics and co-workers have now discovered an approach for increasing the power conversion efficiency of silicon thin films deposited on cheap substrates.
May 25th, 2011
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SEMATECH using its experience and strategy to help improve and bring down costs in the photovoltaic manufacturing process, which is critical to advancing solar energy technologies in the U.S.
May 24th, 2011
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Using the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, scientists led by Richard Robinson, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, uncovered exactly what happens when cobalt nanoparticles transform into two phases of cobalt phosphides.
May 24th, 2011
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Die Beteiligung von Hochschulen, Forschungseinrichtungen und der Wirtschaft aus Nordrhein-Westfalen am 7. Forschungsrahmenprogramm der Europaeischen Union wurde im Auftrag der NRW Landesregierung evaluiert. Das Ergebnis der Evaluation zeigt, dass insgesamt 16,6% der von deutschen Akteuren eingeworbenen 3,05 Mrd. Euro Foerdermittel des 7. EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramms nach Nordrhein-Westfalen gehen.
May 24th, 2011
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On May 3rd and 4th, representatives of ministries, agencies, industry, science and civil organisations from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein met in Berlin at the invitation of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety to discuss current developments in the governance of nanotechnologies.
May 24th, 2011
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Research into the most sensitive measurement of force yet recorded has earned University of Sydney physicist Dr Michael Biercuk, of the School of Physics' Quantum Science Group, the National Measurement Institute Prize for excellence in measurement techniques by a scientist under 35.
May 24th, 2011
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