A novel form of buckypapers or carbon nanotube sheets developed by a research team has eliminated their major drawback.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
10 Feb 2012
A team of researchers at IBM Research – Zurich, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Pennsylvania has developed a nano-sized silicon carbide tip that has a wear resistance of 10,000 folds higher than that of the earlier designs, a major breakthrough in nanomanufacturing for applications such as biosensors for environment and healthcare monitoring.
A study by Martin Z. Bazant from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has discovered the reasons behind the unusual charging and discharging behavior of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) nanoparticles, paving the way to develop high-efficient battery materials.
Kilopass Technology has announced that its XPM embedded one-time programmable anti-fuse non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP) has successfully qualified the reliability testing as per the JEDEC 47 specification for the TowerJazz 130 nm G CMOS process.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Feb 2012
Veeco Instruments, a provider of equipment for developing and manufacturing hard disk drives, solar cells, LEDs and other devices, has declared that its TurboDisc K465i gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) tool has been qualified by SemiLEDs for mass-production of high-brightness LEDs.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has declared that its Ultrastar enterprise-class solid state drive (SSD) portfolio has become the first in the industry to use 25 nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Feb 2012
Biotechnology firm, Lauren Sciences has declared that The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has awarded a grant to the company to further develop its innovative V-Smart nanovesicle platform technology for target-specific delivery of glial-derived naturetic factor (GDNF) systemically to the brain across the blood brain barrier for treating Parkinson's disease.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Feb 2012
sp3 Diamond Technologies, a provider of diamond deposition equipment, products and services, has witnessed a three-fold increase in the delivery of its hot filament chemical vapor deposition (HF CVD) reactors and a revenue growth of 73% in 2011when compared to 2009.
The NanoMaterials Innovation Center LLC (NMIC) in Alfred, NY welcomes Dr. Alan Rae as CEO. Dr. Rae has extensive experience in product commercialization and business development in Ceramics, Electronics and Alternative Energy.
Bruker announced today the call for papers for the ‘Seeing at the Nanoscale 2012’ conference, which will take place at the Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol, UK, from July 09–11, 2012.
At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has succeeded in making atomic nuclei transparent with the help of X-ray light.
The SOI Industry Consortium, Soitec and CEA-Leti have jointly organized the sixth annual workshop on fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology for sophisticated semiconductor architectures.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
8 Feb 2012
Researchers at the Attophotonics Biosciences in Austria and the University of Applied Sciences, in Wiener Neustadt, have collaborated to develop a novel nanoparticle microfluidic color device for nanotech medical diagnostics. The lab-on-a-chip was able to detect interleukin-6 as a vital marker for acute sepsis.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
8 Feb 2012
Cadence, a global innovator of electronic design products, and Samsung Foundry, the foundry business of Samsung Electronics, have collaborated to develop design-for-manufacturing (DFM) infrastructure for production of advanced chips.
Veeco Instruments, a manufacturer of process equipment for developing and producing hard disk drives, solar cells, LEDs and other devices, has announced the selection of its gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System called TurboDisc K465i by Epistar for growing light emitting diodes (LEDs) on silicon substrates.