Duke University researchers have studied individual phase slips in aluminum nanowires and have demonstrated the characteristics and temperature at which they take place.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Sep 2011
Quantum Materials and Nano Axis have entered into a technology alliance in order to develop quantum dot technology-based nanomedicines for the diagnosis and treatment of various major diseases such as breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and depression.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Sep 2011
Samsung Electronics has commenced operations at its 198,000 sq.m Line-16 Memory Semiconductor fabrication facility. Construction of the facility was started during May 2010 and installations were completed by May 2011.
A research team from the Ruhr Universitat Bochum have collaborated with researchers at Grenoble and Tokyo to devise a new method to align electrons differently in order to distinguish between each electron and control their movement through sound waves.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Sep 2011
In what could be a breakthrough discovery in transfer of quantum information, scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University have used sound waves to control the movement of electrons.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Sep 2011
A special focus issue on nanoplasmonics and metamaterials, specific fields of nano-optics, which discuss the interaction of matter and light at the nanoscale, has been published by the editors of Optical Materials Express (OMEx), an open-access journal of the Optical Society (OSA).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Sep 2011
A three-year grant worth of approximately $1 million will be shared by the scientists at the University of Arkansas and Arkansas State University to study the utility of semiconductor and metallic nanoparticles in solar cells that are used as power sources in satellites and spacecrafts.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
26 Sep 2011
The 2011 Microscopy Today Innovation Award has been awarded to Sweden-based Nanofactory Instruments, a company manufacturing and marketing scanning probe microscopy equipments, and the Brookhaven National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy.
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have for the first time described their ‘confinement controlled sublimation’ method for fabricating superior quality large-area layers of epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide wafers in the Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
Researchers at the Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Arkansas have established that controlling DNA linkers to assemble nanostructures could lead to the development of new materials that can be used in a broad variety of applications such as tissue engineering and electronics.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Sep 2011
Wenbin Lin, PhD, Kenan professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina has proved that a newly developed nanoparticle has the potential to deliver chemotherapy treatment for cancer more effectively.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Sep 2011
European foundry Altis Semiconductor has achieved standardization on Candence Design System’s Candence MaskCompose Wafer Synthesis and Reticle System.
A team of researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a 3-D imaging system known as Virtual Reflected-Light Microscopy.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Sep 2011
NaturalNano has declared that Dr. Michael King’s lab at Cornell University will deliver a presentation titled ‘Halloysite Nanotube Coating Applications for Enhanced Capture and Reprogramming of Circulating Tumor Cells’ at The Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting on October 13, 2011.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Sep 2011
D2S has unveiled first-of-a-kind mask-wafer double simulation accelerated workstation called TrueMask DS for hot-spot analysis, bit-cell design, research and development exploration and mask-defect classification that understands dose modulation and overlapping eBeam shots.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
23 Sep 2011