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Engineers Use 'Nano-Origami' to Fold Nanoscale Materials into Simple 3-D Structures

Folding paper into shapes such as a crane or a butterfly is challenging enough for most people. Now imagine trying to fold something that's about a hundred times thinner than a human hair and then putting it to use as an electronic device.

25 Feb 2009

Report Examines Worldwide Nanotechnology Electric Vehicle Market

Electronics.ca Publications, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled "Worldwide Nanotechnology Electric Vehicle Market Shares Strategies, a...

25 Feb 2009

SEMATECH and Asahi Glass to Commercialize Defect Free EUV Mask Blanks

SEMATECH, a global consortium of the world's leading chip manufacturers, today announced that it has entered into a joint development partnership to accelerate mask blank commercialization with Asahi Glass Co. (AGC), a commercial mask blank supplier in Japan.

25 Feb 2009

CNSE Secures $1 Million in Funding in Omnibus Appropriations Bill

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany announced today that Senator Charles Schumer, in partnership with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has secured $1 million in fund...

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 25 Feb 2009

Team Discovers Simple Laws of Nanoscale Friction

To understand friction on a very small scale, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers had to think big. Friction is a force that affects any application where moving parts come into contact; the more surf...

25 Feb 2009

Material May Help Usher in Next Generation of Microelectronics

When squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical and magnetic properties.

25 Feb 2009

New Microscope Uses "Silver Nanoparticle" to Reveal Hidden Details

In a finding that could help speed the understanding of diseases ranging from cancer to osteoporosis, researchers in Utah are reporting development of a new microscope technique that uses "silver nanoparticle" ...

25 Feb 2009

Super-Thin Films of Carbon Poised to Revolutionize Electronics

Super-thin films of carbon with exotic properties, now taking the scientific world by storm, may soon mean a new era of brighter, faster, and smaller computers, smart phones, and other consumer electronics. Brighter digi...

25 Feb 2009

World's Smallest Periscope to Look at Cells and Other Micro-Organisms

A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once.

25 Feb 2009

Study Part of Effort to Tap Nature's Secrets for Building Tiny Tools

Next time you have an unlucky encounter with a crab's pinchers, consider that the claw tips may be reinforced with bromine-rich biomaterial 1.5 times harder than acrylic glass and extremely fracture resistant, says a...

25 Feb 2009

Nanotechnology Researchers Increase Efficiency of Plastic Solar Cells

Researchers at Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and the University of Alberta have engineered an approach that is leading to improved performance of plastic solar cells (hybrid organic solar cell...

25 Feb 2009

Forum Explores Emerging Lithography Technologies

Without robust and affordable next-generation lithography, the current semiconductor roadmap could change dramatically. For 22nm and beyond, patterning candidates such as EUVL*, nano-imprint, direct write and optical double patterning methods show promise.

25 Feb 2009

NanoFab Serving Researchers and Businesses Specializing in Developing and Bringing to Market Nanotechnology-Related Products and Processes

The NanoFab (nanoscale fabrication facility) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is expanding its capabilities to serve researchers, academic institutions and businesses that specialize in develo...

24 Feb 2009

CEMMNT Upgrades TEM with Gatan Tridiem ER Energy Loss Filter

CEMMNT is pleased to announce that it has recently upgraded its Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) with a Gatan Tridiem ER energy loss filter (GIF). TEM and Gatan filter provide a wealth of information about mater...

24 Feb 2009