Micro- and nanotechnology in paper manufacturing
This new book introduces significant developments that micro- and nanotechnologies have brought, and will bring, to the paper industry.
Jul 15th, 2009
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Nanotechnology News – Latest Headlines
Organizations fund search for new nanoelectronics transistors
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today teamed with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to announce funding of $2 million in new supplemental grants for nanoelectronics research.
Jul 15th, 2009
Read moreDevelopment of thin-film electroluminescent device using inorganic oxides
Hiroshi Takashima and coworkers of the Superconducting Devices Group of the Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed red electroluminescent devices using thin-films of chemically stable perovskite oxides.
Jul 15th, 2009
Read moreDetecting blood molecules with an optical chip
A portable "lab on a chip" that can identify target molecules in blood samples has been created by European researchers. It is being used to measure fertility hormones and detect the genes associated with certain types of cancer.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreU. of New Mexico Nanoscience and Microsystems receives U.S. Dept. of Education grant
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman has announced that the UNM Nanoscience and Microsystems (NSMS) Graduate Program has been awarded the highly competitive grant to provide fellowships for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN).
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreAmerican Chemical Society announces second nanotechnology video contest
It's back! The American Chemical Society (ACS) Web community site for nanoscience and nanotechnology researchers and enthusiasts - ACS Nanotation - has launched a second installment of the NanoTube video contest that became an Internet sensation a few months ago.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreConductive ink solar panels capture sun power for soldiers
Scientists developed a ready-to-use, cost-reducing technology that can capture sunlight and store it as energy to power Global Positioning System components, portable communications, and other devices for U.S. soldiers.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreEnergy harvesting for future unmanned aerial vehicles
Dye-sensitized solar cells are expected to power Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the future because they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without refueling.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreSociety of Manufacturing Engineers seeks nominations for 2010 Class of Fellows
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is seeking nominations for the 2010 Class of Fellows. Fellows membership is limited to a select few and is presented in recognition of contributions to the social, technological and educational aspects of the manufacturing profession.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreIMEC launches new industrial affiliation program on GaN-on-Si technology
IMEC today announces the launch of a new industrial affiliation program (IIAP) that will focus on the development of GaN technology for both power conversion and solid state lighting applications. An important goal of the program is to lower GaN technology cost by using large-diameter GaN-on-Si and hence by leveraging on the Si scale of economics.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreResearchers image crucial anthrax protein - crystal structure could offer new therapies
Anthrax, long feared for its potential as a biological weapon, has lost some of its mystery. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Chicago, have determined the structure of a protein crucial to the virulence of anthrax bacteria.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read morePromising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below
IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate first process and a step forward towards fabricating aggressively scaled germanium-pFET transistors.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreBrookhaven and Stanford physicists share Onnes Prize for superconductivity experiments
J.C. Seamus Davis and John Tranquada, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, along with Aharon Kapitulnik of Stanford University, have been named the recipients of the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for outstanding superconductivity experiments.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read more22nm interconnect technology takes a significant step forward
IMEC presents innovations in dielectrics and metallization technologies as well as in their integration approaches. Great progress has been obtained in the metallization of 22nm interconnects, in Cu/low-k reliability assessment and in the suppression of low-k integration damage. The results contribute to deliver the interconnect performance and reliability beyond the 32nm node.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreNew partnerships and pilot line for IMEC's solar cell research program
IMEC today announced that it has established new partnerships with solar cell material and equipment suppliers. These companies, including MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., Leybold Optics Dresden GmbH, Roth & Rau AG, and Mallinckrodt Baker B.V., have concluded joint-development agreements with IMEC in the frame of IMEC?s newly launched wafer-based silicon photovoltaics industrial affiliation program.
Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreIMEC launches dedicated EUV mask cleaning program
IMEC today announced that it is extending its EUV (extreme ultra-violet) lithography research program with a parallel dedicated EUV mask cleaning research program. The program will build on a new collaboration between IMEC and HamaTech APE GmbH.
Jul 14th, 2009
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