Innovative Materials Processing Technologies (IMPT), along with 13 partners, has secured a major European research project in photovoltaic nanotechnology worth €10 million.
Lattice Semiconductor and United Microelectronics have declared a long-term technology partnership through which they will carry on their ongoing work on non-volatile products based on sophisticated technology nodes. The two companies will also accelerate their efforts to integrate other product lines of Lattice Semiconductor.
By Will Soutter
11 Jul 2012
Today at SEMICON West 2012, Bruker announced three new 450mm X-Ray and AFM semiconductor metrology products to support the industry’s transition to larger wafer production. These new products include the InSight-450 3DAFM from Bruker’s Nano Surfaces division and both the next generation of the D8 FABLINE and the new S8 FABLINE-T X-ray systems from Bruker’s AXS division.
Merck has inked an exclusive global licensing deal to use PDS Biotechnology’s innovative Versamune nanotechnology platform in Merck’s two investigational antigen-specific cancer immunotherapies that are now in pre-clinical development.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Jul 2012
Nanotech Security has announced the conclusion of its first large scale test-run utilizing its optical security feature based on nanotechnology called NOtES.
By G.P. Thomas
11 Jul 2012
Swedish MEMS foundry, Silex Microsystems has been awarded close to 1M SEK by VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems under the aegis of its 30M SEK program for advancement of MEMS-based gas sensor manufacture.
Scientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia and the University of Barcelona have partnered with the Centro National de Biotecnologia in Madrid and developed a novel technique for identifying nanoscale objects and viruses using an electrostatic force microscope (EFM).
By Will Soutter
11 Jul 2012
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the use of the NanoWizard® AFM system at the INSERM/CNRS Laboratories in Marseille, France
Ghent University has been creating its particle and powder coating technologies for surface functionalization application.
By G.P. Thomas
10 Jul 2012
A new study conducted by scientists at Rice University demonstrates the mechanism behind snapping of nanomaterials when subjected to ultrasonic vibrations within a liquid.
By Will Soutter
10 Jul 2012
The SCALENANO project aims to develop cost-effective solar energy technology using sophisticated thin film technologies. The €10 million project is a part of the European Commission’s FP7-ENERGY programme. The University of Nottingham will play a major role in this project.
By Will Soutter
10 Jul 2012
Ferroelectric materials can store digital information just like their cousins, the ferromagnetic materials. Similar to the ferromagnetic materials being characterized by magnetic dipoles of either north or south and their capability to align themselves on a bigger scale to produce either attractive or repulsive magnetic force, ferroelectric materials also exhibit molecular level dipole moment comprising positive and negative electric charges.
Researchers led by Professor Joseph Lyding at the University of Illinois have devised a new technique to sharpen microscopic probes that significantly enhances image resolution. Probes are essential components of microscopes widely used to study structures of atomic scale where the tip of the probe is used to scan the sample surface to determine its chemical, electrical and mechanical properties.
By Will Soutter
9 Jul 2012
MEMC Electronic Materials, the semiconductor and solar technology provider, has unveiled a new and advanced silicon wafer to enable the manufacture of junction-isolated FinFETs. Dubbed as MEMC FOX-Si, the new device is cost effective and addresses the challenges in manufacturing of FinFETs.
Current manufacturers of solar cells have been able to produce solar devices with sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency not exceeding 20%. In this industry, even a 1% improvement would be hailed as significant progress.