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Highly Integrated Mid-Infrared Laser Source for Processing Organic Solar Cells

Imec will actively participate in a new European project called IMPROV (‘Innovative mid-infrared high-power source for resonant ablation of organic based photovoltaic devices’) that aims at the investigation,...

From IMEC 17 Dec 2010

Selective Area Growth of High-Quality InP Layers on 200mm Si(001) Wafers

Imec has demonstrated the selective area growth of high-quality InP layers on 200mm Si(001) wafers. Key to avoiding the typically formed and unwanted antiphase boundaries (APBs) is the creation of atomic steps on a thin Ge buffer layer. This result is a major step forward towards the fabrication of high-performance Ge/III-V CMOS devices and the integration of optoelectronic devices on a Si chip.

From IMEC 17 Dec 2010

New Technology to Fabricate Complex Three-Dimensional Microstructures

Researchers from imec and the University of Michigan have reported a new technology to fabricate complex three-dimensional microstructures, with intricate bends, twists, and multidirectional textures, starting from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT).

From IMEC 17 Dec 2010

Imec Derives Process Flow Concept for Packaging of Medical Implants

Imec has derived a process flow concept for the packaging of medical implants that meets the requirements for miniaturization, biocompatibility and safety. The proposed solution is a promising alternative for the currently used rigid packages that tend to enhance foreign body reactions.

From IMEC 17 Dec 2010

Innovative Nanosensor for Measuring Ultra-Low Concentrations of NO2

Imec and Holst Centre have developed an innovative sensor for measuring ultra-low concentrations of NO2. Such sensors are important for applications that monitor environmental pollution resulting from traffic, and in general, from all combustion motors.

From IMEC 17 Dec 2010

Stress-Induced Impact of TSV Processing on Performance of High-k/Metal-Gate CMOS Transistors and Circuits

At IEDM 2010, imec and its partners presented a study of the stress-induced impact of through-silicon via (TSV) processing on the performance of high-k/metal-gate CMOS transistors and circuits.

From IMEC 17 Dec 2010

Two Powerful Anticancer Agents in One Polymer Nanoparticle Producing Substantial Boost in Destroying Tumors

The standard approach to cancer therapy today is to mix and match chemotherapy drugs in order to attack tumors in multiple ways. Now, two separate teams of investigators have demonstrated that using nanoparticles to deli...

17 Dec 2010

Tracking Delivery of Therapeutic Nanoparticle to Breast Tumor

Researchers at Rice University, collaborating with investigators at the Baylor College of Medicine, have used two different types of imaging technologies to track the delivery of a therapeutic nanoparticle to breast tumo...

17 Dec 2010

Microsensor to Answer One of the Weightiest Questions in Biology

Researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, have developed a new kind of microsensor to answer one of the weightiest questions in biology – the relationship between cell mass and growth rate. The team, led by Rashid Bashir, published its results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

17 Dec 2010

Research Team Creates "Nanobioconjugate" Drug to Target Brain Tumors

Nine years ago, scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute detected a subtle shift occurring in the molecular makeup of the most aggressive type of brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme. With ...

17 Dec 2010

Geometrical Confinement of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents in Nanoporous Particles Enhances T1 Contrast

A porous, disk-shaped "nest" for nanotubes may help magnetic resonance imaging become better than ever at finding evidence of cancer if the results of research led by investigators at Rice University are any in...

17 Dec 2010

Nanotechnology Scientists Develop First Injectable Hydrogel with Variable Stiffness

Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, have developed the first injectable hydrogel system with variable stiffness that can control cell proliferation and differentiation in a two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) cell culture environment.

17 Dec 2010

Nanometrics to Supply UniFire 7900 Metrology System to A Leading Foundry

Nanometrics Incorporated a leading provider of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the fabrication of semiconductors, high-brightness LEDs, data storage devices and solar photovoltaics, today announced that a leading semiconductor foundry has ordered a UniFire™ 7900 metrology system for advanced 3D wafer-scale packaging process control.

17 Dec 2010

Silicon Biosystems Opens New Business to Commercialize DEPArray Technology in California

Silicon Biosystems, S.p.A., a provider of specialized molecular and cell biology technology, today announced that it has formed a U.S. subsidiary operation, Silicon Biosystems, Inc., to be headquartered in San Diego, California.

17 Dec 2010

Nanoparticle with Genetic Instructions Can Aid in Cancer Treatment

In a proof of principal study in mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins and the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have shown that a set of genetic instructions encased in a nanoparticle can be used as an "ignition switch" to rev up gene activity that aids cancer detection and treatment.

17 Dec 2010