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Creative Chips’ 180-nm CMOS Controller Designed Using Synopsys' Galaxy Solution

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Creative Chips, a mixed-signal semiconductor IC provider, has taped out its most complex mixed-signal chip to date using Synopsys' Galaxy™ Implementation Platform.

From Synopsys, Inc. 6 Aug 2010

TSMC Selects Quartz DRC to Validate 28-nm Product Qualification Vehicle Test Chip

Magma® Design Automation Inc., a provider of chip design software, announced today that TSMC used Quartz™ DRC for physical verification of its 28-nanometer (nm) product qualification vehicle (PQV) test chip.

6 Aug 2010

NSF Grants Fund to a Professor for Converting Waste Material into Cleaning Agent

The National Science Foundation awarded Sudipta Seal a $67,000 grant that will help the professor turn waste material, commonly referred to as flyash, into a cleaning agent.

6 Aug 2010

Quantum Mechanics Enables Study of Superconducting Phenomenon

Physicists are divided on whether string theory is a viable theory of everything, but many agree that it offers a new way to look at physical phenomena that have otherwise proven difficult to describe. In the past dec...

6 Aug 2010

Computer Scientists Work on Protein-Folding Issue

Computer scientists and biochemists at the University of Washington two years ago launched an ambitious project harnessing the brainpower of computer gamers to solve medical problems. The game, Foldit, turns one of th...

6 Aug 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Test to Detect Infrared Leakage at 1064 nm

Green laser pointers have become a popular consumer item, delivering light that's brighter to the eye than red lasers, but stories have circulated on the Web about the potential hazards of inexpensive models. Now, a team led by physicist Charles Clark at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) puts some numbers to the problem.

6 Aug 2010

Physicists Achieves Ultrafast "Switching" Time in Operation Central to Quantum Information Processing

A team of physicists has achieved ultrafast “switching” time in an operation central to quantum information processing, changing the state of a single trapped ion in less than 50 picoseconds (10-12, or trillionths of a second) with more than 99 percent reliability.

6 Aug 2010

Funding to Support Research on Nano-Engineered Surfaces for Heat Management

Kripa Varanasi, the d'Arbeloff Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and leader of the Lab for Surface Science + Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, has received a 2010 Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

6 Aug 2010

Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism that Maintains Important Feature of Spindle

During cell division, microtubules emanating from each of the spindle poles meet and overlap in the spindle’s midzone. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have uncovered the molecular mechanism that determines the extent of this overlap.

6 Aug 2010

Evidence Support Idea that Life Originated with Molecules that Lay Between Mica Sheets

That age-old question, "where did life on Earth start?" now has a new answer. If the life between the mica sheets hypothesis is correct, life would have originated between sheets of mica that were layered like the pages in a book.

5 Aug 2010

Scientists at RTI International to Develop Registry for Nanomaterials

Scientists at RTI International will develop a registry for nanomaterials as part of a new contract from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Under terms of the federally f...

5 Aug 2010

DFI Nanotechnology Partners with MTN Sciencentre

Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. (DFI Nanotechnology), global developer and exclusive licensor of patented hydrophobic nanotechnologies, has partnered up with MTN Sciencentre through its Exclusive Distributor and Licensee DewPoint Products in Cape Town, South Africa in an effort to help children understand the use of nanotechnology and its benefits in the world.

From DFI- Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. 5 Aug 2010

ASU Professor Releases Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology and Society

The newly-released two-volume Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society is the result. Edited by David H. Guston, director of ASU’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society and professor of political science, this resource isn’t designed for the scientist or engineer, but rather for the rest of us who have plenty of questions about nanotechnology – and what it means for our lives – but are afraid to ask.

5 Aug 2010

Need Help Characterizing Proteins or Polymer Solutions, This Presentation May Help

Dr Jean-Luc Brousseau from the separations systems team at Malvern Panalytical has recorded a downloadable presentation that helps illustrate the importance of specific analytical details when characterizing protein or polymer solutions.

From Malvern Panalytical 5 Aug 2010

$Physicist Receives Award from International Centre for Powder Diffraction$

Physicist Receives Award from International Centre for Powder Diffraction

Simon Billinge, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been named a recipient of the Centre for Powder Diffraction’s 2010 J. D. Hanawalt Award, along with his collaborator and former advisor, Takeshi Egami of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 5 Aug 2010