In a paper published in Nature Materials, a group of researchers at the Catalan
Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN) led by ICREA Prof. Sergio O. Valenzuela
reports the observation of the magnon drag. This work ends a 50-year long effort to isolate this elusive thermoelectric effect.
Rainbow Coral’s division, Rainbow Biosciences has declared that it has started due diligence analysis for a possible joint venture or acquisition of n3D Biosciences, the company being a developer of an advanced nanoparticle cell-growth technology.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Dec 2011
Arradiance, a provider of functional film technologies and thin film process systems, has declared that Euris Semiconductor Services based in Grenoble, France has signed a partnership deal to sell and support Arradiance’s GEMStar benchtop atomic layer deposition (ALD) tools in Europe.
Berkeley Design Automation, a pioneer in nanometer circuit verification, has declared that the India Semiconductor Association (ISA), an organization addressing the Indian electronic system design and manufacturing industry, has chosen Berkeley Design Automation as a recipient of the ISA Technovation Award (December 2011) under the Semiconductor (Intellectual Property) category.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Dec 2011
CHAD Industries has declared that it has completed the installation of several completely automated bond shear inspection workcells for its 300 mm wafer applications.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Dec 2011
A research team at the Low Temperature Laboratory of the Aalto University based in Finland has demonstrated a novel method to detect and amplify weak electromagnetic signals such as microwaves or radio waves almost noiselessly using a nanomechanical oscillator.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Dec 2011
A research team led by Deyu Li, who serves as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, has developed a novel method to modify and improve the thermal conductivity of boron nanoribbons, paving the way to control thermal impacts in lasers, computers, smart phones and other powered devices.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
16 Dec 2011
Renesas Electronics, a company specializing in advanced flash design and semiconductor solutions, has declared that it has designed the first-of-its-kind 40 nm memory intellectual property (IP) for real-time applications in the automotive industry.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
16 Dec 2011
ARM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES have introduced the first-its-kind 28 nm dual-core Cortex-A9 processor-based SoC test chip operating at over 2.5 GHz frequency. They have also announced the tape out of Cortex-A9 processor-based SoCs utilizing 20 nm technology qualification vehicle (TQV) of GLOBALFOUNDRIES.
Nanostart’s subsidiary, MagForce, a nanomedicine company specializing in oncology, has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Delrus, a distributor of medical products based in Russia.
Synopsys has declared that GLOBALFOUNDRIES has achieved silicon success for its first major 20 nm chip using Synopsys’ IC Compiler-Advanced Geometry (AG), which is the 20-nm version of IC Compiler.
STMicroelectronics has declared that it has successfully produced first-of-its-kind semiconductor wafer, whose dice were completely tested devoid of contact probes.
ResearchMoz has added a new report titled ‘Mid Infrared (IR) Sensors Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, Nanotechnology, 2012 to 2018’ to its offering.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
16 Dec 2011
HiSilicon Technologies, a company specializing in semiconductor designs for consumer electronics and communication industries, has become the licensee of eSilicon’s 40 nm silicon-proven ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) macros for use in its future-generation, superior-performance network-application ASICs.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
16 Dec 2011
The initial showcase of presenters at beyondtheblue.boisestate.edu features Will Hughes, DNA Nanotechnology Expert. Will Hughes, whose team of researches are beneficiaries of a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation.