Synopsys has made DesignWare AEON Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP available for multiple process technologies of 180 nm.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
29 Jun 2011
Physicists from the University of Würzburg have used special nanostructures known as quantum dots in microlasers to trigger chaos in the light emission process. This can become a new and safe method to transmit data in the future.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Ohio State University astronomers together with radiation oncologists and medical physicists are involved in developing a new radiation therapy that will be effective on tumor tissues, causing less damage to normal tissues.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Research team at the University of Southampton along with its partners at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan and Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory plan to develop low-power, non-volatile and less-weight logic systems to carry out instant on/off logic operations.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) designed light-detectors from graphene and analyzed their special features. Scientists at the TU Vienna are closely studying graphene’s optical and electronic properties.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
A Charles Godfrey Binder professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, collaborated with engineers from the National Taipei University of Technology to formulate a technique for manufacturing materials that are periodically multilayered similar to the lens in the peacock mantis shrimp’s eye.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Berkeley Lab, the University of California have developed a nanoscale method for testing irradiated substances that offer macroscale materials - strength characteristics.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Cambridge NanoTech has introduced the capability of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) in an attempt to upgrade Savannah Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems. SAMs are helpful in various fields such as electronics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), biology, electrochemistry, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), and household products.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
Nature Photonics published a paper about a new type of solar cell that uses cost-effective coatings to effectively produce electricity from sun rays. The U of T engineering research team headed by Professor Ted Sargent, electrical and computer engineering professor, University of Toronto, discovered the first effective tandem solar cell using colloidal quantum dots (CQD).
By Dr. Cameron Chai
28 Jun 2011
FutureChemistry, a world leading supplier in innovative instruments for chemical laboratories, launches FlowStart Evo. This product is an important evolution from FlowStart, which has made microreactor technology accessi...
WITec’s True Surface Microscopy has been selected as a winner of the prestigious 2011 R&D 100 Award. It honors the WITec innovation as one of the 100 most technologically significant developments of the year.
Malvern Panalytical is a major sponsor for UK Colloids 2011, a new international colloid and surface science symposium that takes place in London, UK, from 4-6 July.
Biochemists will take part in the 35th Steenbock Symposium at UW Madison from June 26-28 to talk about the advancements in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, which enables scientists to study vital structural data about biological molecules.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
The assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, Cynthia Collins, is conducting a series of experiments known as Micro-2A that will be on board the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011
A team of researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) along with their colleagues from Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg and GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, measured the magnetic properties of a single proton. For the first time, they observed spin quantum-jumps of a trapped proton.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
27 Jun 2011