In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Singapore’s Engineering Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have demonstrated a new technique that could produce chip features only 10 nanometers.
Dr. Oana Jurchescu, who serves as assistant professor of physics at Wake Forest University, and her team have developed an exceptionally huge molecule with high stability and superior electrical properties at lower cost, which paves the way for the advancement of plastic-based flexible electronics field.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Aug 2011
GLOBALFOUNDRIES has showed that it is ready to evaluate its customers’ 20 nm designs by effectively taping out a test chip utilizing flows from major EDA vendors Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, Magma Design Automation and Cadence Design Systems.
Rice University scientist Jun Lou and his team have discovered that gold wires have reduced ductility at the nanoscale. This finding has been reported in the Advanced Functional Materials journal.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Aug 2011
Freescale Semiconductor has launched MEMS-based automotive sensor modules for its Tower System development platform.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
31 Aug 2011
Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO), a leading supplier of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment used to make light emitting diodes (LEDs), celebrated the opening of its new Taiwan Technology Center...
Daniel Resasco, founder and chief scientist of SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT) the world leader in high quality, Single-Wall and Specialty Multi-Wall (SMW) carbon nanotubes (CNT), is a featured speaker at New In...
Bruker announced today that Alcon Corporation has selected the Bruker ContourGT®-X8 Optical Surface Profiler to provide non-destructive, non-contact reference metrology for critical dimensioning and 3D characterization of Alcon’s current and next-generation intra-ocular lenses (IOLs).
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Epistar Corporation, headquartered in Taiwan, has recently qualified the TurboDisc(R) MaxBright(TM) gallium nitride (GaN) Multi-Reactor Metal Organic Chemical Va...
GLOBALFOUNDRIES has chosen Solido Design Automation’s Solido Variation Designer, which includes PVT+ and High-Sigma Monte Carlo+ packages, for its 28 nm analog/mixed-signal (AMS) reference flow.
Mentor Graphics has introduced new functionalities in its design to silicon solutions, which include the enhanced CMP modules for 28 nm and new Calibre LFD kits for 20 and 28 nm, for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ third-generation signoff-ready design enablement for advanced IC production.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Aug 2011
Researchers, Liwei Lin of the University California-Berkeley and Haw Yang of Princeton University, have utilized a novel device called nano-thermometers to measure the individual cell temperatures inside the human body.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
30 Aug 2011
The Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN) will host post-conference delegation tours for registered COMS (Commercialization of Micro-Nano Systems conference) international attendees on September 1, 2011. Thes...
The new SZ-100 series from Horiba analyzes key particle physical properties including size and zeta potential. Particle size analysis is performed by dynamic light scattering (DLS).
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals has inked an exclusive, global license and partnership deal with Halo-Bio RNAi Therapeutics for its innovative and proprietary RNAi technology known as multivalent RNA (MV-RNA) to develop MV-RNA molecules and therapeutic products by coupling Tekmira's lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology and MV-RNA molecules.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
29 Aug 2011