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Newly Established KLA Instruments Group Focuses on Broad Markets

KLA Instruments Group Focuses on Broad Markets

From KLA Instruments™ 16 Jun 2020

At VLSI 2020, CEA-Leti Demos New Architecture for HPC Devices Using Gate-All-Around Nanosheet Fabrication Process

CEA-Leti has demonstrated fabrication of a new gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet device as an alternative to FinFET technology targeting high-performance (HPC) applications such as smartphones, laptops, and mobile systems with data collection and processing involving low-power and high-speed operation.

16 Jun 2020

New 2D Compounds with Similar Atomic Lattice Could Form Excitons

Mixing and matching computational models of 2D materials led scientists at Rice University to the realization that excitons -- quasiparticles that exist when electrons and holes briefly bind -- can be manipulated in new and useful ways.

16 Jun 2020

Current-Voltage Curve of Graphene Nanoribbons Measured Using TEM

Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have successfully measured the current-voltage curve of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) that were suspended between two electrodes.

16 Jun 2020

New Method to Create Customizable Nanocarbons on Flexible Materials

Fabrication of flexible and wearable electronics often requires integrating various types of advanced carbon nanomaterials - such as graphene, nanotubes, and nanoporous carbon - because of their remarkable electrical, thermal, and chemical properties.

16 Jun 2020

Experimental Observation of Plasmon Nanojets Could Help Localize Radiation

Russian and Danish researchers have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet.

16 Jun 2020

New Technique Developed for Self-Assembling Nanostructures

A new technique has been developed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid (?PNA)—an artificial imitator of DNA.

15 Jun 2020

Optimal Nanostructure Helps Minimize Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductor Materials

Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al. from The University of Tokyo aimed to reduce the thermal conductivity of semiconductor materials by reducing the internal nanostructure, and successfully minimized thermal conductivity by designing, fabricating, and evaluating the optimal nanostructure-multilayer materials through materials informatics (MI), which combines machine learning and molecular simulation.

15 Jun 2020

Two-in-One Super Molecule for High-Density Computing

NUS Chemists have developed a new type of molecular computing device that acts both as a switch and storage element for nanoelectronic applications.

12 Jun 2020

New Nanoparticle-Based Metasurfaces for Future Camera Lenses

In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture.

12 Jun 2020

New Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Could Help Create Rewritable Biomedical Chip

Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a versatile microfluidic lab-on-a-chip that uses sound waves to create tunnels in oil to touchlessly manipulate and transport droplets.

12 Jun 2020

New Single Graphene-Cube Cavity Acts as New Type of Nano-Antenna

Miniaturization has enabled so many unfathomable dreams. Shrinking down electronic circuits has allowed us to access technology like smartphones, health watches, medical probes, nano-satellites, unthinkable a couple decades ago.

12 Jun 2020

WITec Begins Expansion of its Headquarters Facility

WITec GmbH, the technology leader in correlative Raman microscopy, is expanding its headquarters building in Ulm.

From Oxford Instruments WITec 12 Jun 2020

New Recyclable Nanomesh Electrodes for Inexpensive Optoelectronics

Scientists from Australia have proven the high potential for using a new type of flexible, recyclable electrodes to make inexpensive touchscreens, solar cells, next-generation responsive windows, and wearable “e-skins.”

11 Jun 2020

2D Nanosheets can Advance Regenerative Medicine, Cancer Treatment

Scientists in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University are developing new ways to advance the field of regenerative medicine and cancer treatment.

11 Jun 2020