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Samsung Electronics Announces Production of 20nm-Class 64Gb 3-Bit NAND Flash

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today the industry’s first production of a 3-bit-cell (3bit), 64 gigabit (Gb) NAND flash using 20 nanometer (nm)-class process technology.

From Samsung Electronics 14 Oct 2010

Renesas Electronics’ Velocity Lab Supports 90 nm Microcontroller Families

Renesas Electronics America Inc. today introduced Velocity Lab(TM), a suite of Renesas Electronics and third-party development components designed to enable customers to develop embedded solutions quickly, easily and cost-effectively.

14 Oct 2010

SVTC will Help GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Become MEMS Foundry Leader

GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a strategic partnership with SVTC Technologies to accelerate the move to high-volume manufacturing of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS).

From GlobalFoundries 14 Oct 2010

Scientists Develop New Nano-Enhanced Water Filtering Technology

With almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water, scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills up to 98 percent of dis...

14 Oct 2010

NanoLogix’s New Quick-Tests Detect and Identify Live-Cell Bacteria

NanoLogix, Inc. announces its new Quick-Test product line for detection and identification of aerobic live-cell bacteria.

From NanoLogix 14 Oct 2010

Rice University Team Develops New Single Graphene Transistor

Rice University research that capitalizes on the wide-ranging capabilities of graphene could lead to circuit applications that are far more compact and versatile than what is now feasible with silicon-based technologies....

14 Oct 2010

SiEnergy Systems to Showcase Prototype Thin Film Micro Fuel Cells

SiEnergy Systems LLC, a Harvard spin-off company commercializing novel solid oxide fuel cells using nanometer scale oxide thin films, will be exhibiting at the 2010 Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition to be held in San Anto...

14 Oct 2010

International Researchers Discuss Strategies for 16 nm and Beyond Process Technologies

Participants at the recent 7th Annual International Symposium on Advanced Gate Stack Technology discussed strategies for implementing advanced logic and memory technologies for sub-16 nm node and beyond process technologies.

14 Oct 2010

Microscopic Pores in Silicon Improves Storage Capacity of Lithium-Ion Batteries

A team of Rice University and Lockheed Martin scientists has discovered a way to use simple silicon to radically increase the capacity of lithium-ion batteries.

14 Oct 2010

Electrified Silver Nanowires Used to Purify Water

From American Chemical Society 13 Oct 2010

PI Introduces 2-Axis Ultrasonic Piezo Motor Controller for Actuators, Micropositioning Systems and Microscope Stages

Piezo motor specialist PI introduces a new 2-axis digital controller for ultrasonic high-stability piezo motor stages such as those used on the latest generation microscopes.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 13 Oct 2010

Nanotechnology Reduces Energy Consumption in Semiconductor Chips

Tyndall National Institute, UCC announced today, Wednesday, at the 2010 International Power Supply on Chip Workshop in Cork, the development of a new nano-material that will dramatically reduce the operating temperature of silicon chip components and circuits, thereby enhancing the reliability and lifetime of electronics in products ranging from smart phones to automotive electronics.

13 Oct 2010

"Watching" Nanoparticles Grow in Real Time

A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution of Washington has succeeded in "watching" nanoparticles grow in real time.

From Argonne National Laboratory 13 Oct 2010

Researchers Produce Subnanometer Resolution Model of Human Ndc80

Unless you are in a field of study related to cell biology, you most likely have never heard of Ndc80. Yet this protein complex is essential to mitosis, the process by which a living cell separates its chromosomes and distributes them equally between its two daughter cells.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 13 Oct 2010

Nano-Tomography to Produce 3D Detailed Imaging of Fragile Bone Structures

Scientists working in Germany and Switzerland have developed a novel nano-tomography method, which uses X-rays to allow doctors to produce three-dimensional (3D) detailed imaging of fragile bone structures. This method c...

13 Oct 2010