Dr. Cameron Chai

Articles from Cameron

Issues and Advancements in Nano and Microfluidics Field to be Discussed at ELA 2012

Select Biosciences, which organizes European Lab Automation (ELA) 2012, has announced that a new conference track titled ‘Nano & Microfluidics’ will be one among the eight topical conference tracks at the ELA 2012.

17 Apr 2012

Veeco Unveils SPECTOR-HT System for Optical Thin Film Applications

Veeco Instruments, an equipment manufacturer for hard disk drives, solar cells, LEDs and optoelectronics, has unveiled an ion beam deposition system called the SPECTOR-HT at the SPIE Photonics Europe Trade Show in Brussels, Belgium.

17 Apr 2012

Researchers Study Photon Behavior in Metamaterials

The advancement in information technology is based on the ability to manipulate electron flow utilizing engineering materials. However, most properties of matter are not yet clearly defined. Now, Zubin Jacob, an electrical engineering researcher at the University of Alberta, is working on understanding certain unusual electronic properties of matter utilizing optical analogues.

17 Apr 2012

Touch of Gold Increases Stability and Reactivity of Copper Nanoparticles

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new technique to increase the stability of copper nanoparticles, while decreasing the energy required for them to reduce carbon dioxide to hydrocarbon fuels such as methanol or methane.

16 Apr 2012

Market Research Report on Global Printed Electronics

Electronics.ca Publications has released a new market research report titled "Printed Electronics: The Global Market". According to the latest report, in 2011, the worldwide market for printed electronics was worth about $3.5 billion and this value is anticipated to rise to $12.6 billion in 2016, at a compound annual growth rate of 29.4% in the next five years.

16 Apr 2012

Thin Film Electronics to Develop Prototypes Using Printed Memory

Thin Film Electronics ASA, a Norwegian technology company, has secured a contract to make sample products for identifying parts included in customized manufactured hardware. These prototypes will use Thinfilm Memory, a non-volatile, rewriteable ferroelectric memory, to record configuration of parts in a sample system. The company will deliver the prototypes in the second quarter of 2012.

16 Apr 2012

SMIC Unveils 40-nm Reference Flow for Low-Power Chips

An advanced-node, low-power integrated circuit (IC) design reference flow has been unveiled by Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) using its 40-nm production process and Cadence Design Systems’ Cadence Encounter digital technology.

16 Apr 2012

Intel Presents 2011 Preferred Quality Supplier Award to DA NanoMaterials

Air Products’ subsidiary, DA NanoMaterials has received a 2011 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award from Intel.

16 Apr 2012

Researcher Receives Grant to Study Reliability of Future Nanoelectronics

Present computer chips demonstrate astounding transistor arrays of over 2.5 billion. However, this number can be increased further with the help of nanotechnologies, which may enable the fabrication of nanotransistors from different materials, including carbon nanotubes, silicon and even larger molecules.

12 Apr 2012

Researchers Develop High-Porosity Carbon Nanomaterial to Advance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

A team of researchers, led by Linda Nazar from the Waterloo University in Canada and Thomas Bein from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) Munich, has synthesized porous carbon nanoparticles that use sulfur molecules to optimize the efficiency of lithium-sulfur batteries, a major breakthrough in the advancement of this next-generation of batteries.

12 Apr 2012