A research team from the Imperial College London has shown that a honeycomb pattern composed of nano-sized magnets in spin ice triggers competition between adjoining magnets, and drastically lessens the issues caused by the interactions between magnetic domains in data storage devices.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Apr 2012
A research team headed by physicists from the University of Arizona has discovered that boron nitride, a non-conducting material but structurally identical with graphene, can control the flow of electrons in graphene.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
2 Apr 2012
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s multidisciplinary research group, the Center for Polymer Microfabrication is designing production processes for microfluidics from the scratch in order to mass produce microfluidic devices.
A research team, comprising Vlatko Vedral, Elisabeth Rieper and Mile Gu from the National Univesity of Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies together with Karoline Wiesner from the University of Bristol, has identified a new way wherein the performance of quantum physics-based computers can surpass that of classical computers.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Mar 2012
At the American Chemical Society’s 243rd National Meeting & Exposition a research team led by David H. Gracias from the Johns Hopkins University has reported about a research on ‘backpacking’ bacteria that can serve as a carrier to deliver nano-medicine across the body.
GenMark Diagnostics has inked a non-exclusive licensing deal with PerkinElmer for its microfluidics patent portfolio. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Mar 2012
Researchers, Professor Dek Woolfson, Dr Franziska Thomas and Dr David Fermin, from the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry have received a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant worth £140,000.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Mar 2012
A team of scientists from different research organizations has conducted a first-of-its-kind direct study on two-dimensional fermion liquids utilizing inelastic neutron scattering technique at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), and identified a new class of very-short wave-length density wave in these liquids.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Mar 2012
Decision Resources, a research and consultative firm for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, offers analysis on the latest developments in the non-small-cell lung cancer drug market.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Mar 2012
Yole Développement has released a new report titled ‘Flow Chemistry Technologies - Microtechnologies for Chemical Process Intensification.’
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Mar 2012
A research team from the University of Limerick (UL) led by Dr. Syed Tofail from UL’s Materials and Surface Science Institute (MSSI) has joined SANOWORK, a project funded by European Commission (EC), to evaluate and control potential risks related to nanomaterials.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Mar 2012
Akustica, a provider of silicon microphone products, has expanded its portfolio of microphone products with the introduction of AKU340, a high-performance analog MEMS microphone designed specially to fulfill the needs of mobile phone manufacturers.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Mar 2012
Semiconductor process and equipment solutions major, SÜSS MicroTec has acquired Tamarack Scientific Co. based out of CA, USA. The companies have inked a purchase contract, under the terms of which SÜSS MicroTec will acquire 100% shares of Tamarack for a total amount of $9.34 million. The price also includes a variable earn-out ingredient, which will rely on the revenues generated in the next three financial years.
Synopsys, a company offering intellectual property, software, and services utilized in the design, production and verification of electronic systems and components, has partnered with TSMC and Altera to deliver silicon-validate modeling of important parasitic effects in StarRC solution, developed by Synopsys, for TSMC’s 28-nm process nodes.
Raydium Semiconductor, an IC solution provider for TFT-LCD panels, has chosen Berkeley Design Automation’s Analog FastSPICE (AFS) Platform, which is recognized as the fastest nanometer circuit verification in the world for RF, analog, mixed-signal, and custom digital circuits.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Mar 2012