ARM has expanded its portfolio of ARM Processor Optimization Pack (POP) solutions targeting several ARM Cortex processors for TSMC’s 28 nm and 40 nm process technologies. The company will release nine POP configurations for Cortex-A15, Cortex-A9, Cortex-A7, and Cortex-A5 processor cores.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
18 Apr 2012
Integran Technologies, a nanotechnology firm based in Mississauga, Canada, has received a repayable investment worth $399,386 from the Canadian government through the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Apr 2012
A team of researchers, led by Albina Borisevich from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy, has proposed a new theory to elucidate the unusual properties of a material that find possible use in actuators and capacitors.
Dr. Brian Collins and Dr. Harald Ade from the North Carolina State University and Dr. Michael Chabinyc from the University of California Santa Barbara have developed a new X-ray technique to characterize organic polymers in order to facilitate their usability in printable electronics such as solar cells and transistors.
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.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Apr 2012
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.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Apr 2012
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.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Apr 2012
Piezo nano-positioning systems specialist PI (Physik Instrumente) provides a 3-axis nano-positioning stage that is employed in a novel laser lithography system by Nanoscribe GmbH.
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.
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.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
16 Apr 2012
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.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
16 Apr 2012
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.
Air Products’ subsidiary, DA NanoMaterials has received a 2011 Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award from Intel.
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.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Apr 2012
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.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
12 Apr 2012