Researchers at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have obtained a record efficiency of 22% by creating silicon solar cells that incorporate a surface treatment called black silicon on the front of the cell. This technique nanostructures the surface with a dry chemical attack that results in small conical tips at the nanometric scale.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced that its implementation and signoff tools have achieved certification on the Intel® 14nm process for customers of Intel Custom Foundry. Intel Custom Foundry utilized a PowerVR Series6 GPU from Imagination Technologies as part of the certification process.
Open-Silicon, an ASIC solutions provider, today announced it will demonstrate the company's Industrial IoT ASIC Platform, 28Gbps SerDes Evaluation Platform, 2.5D SoC Solution and HMC 2.0 Memory Controller IP at DAC (Jun 8-11, 2015- San Francisco, CA). Open-Silicon is also presenting several posters on "Advance ASIC Solutions" on Low Power Methodology, Connectivity Verification, Validation and High Speed SerDes Integration.
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., one of the world’s leading producers of photodetectors and imagers today announced that it has licensed certain Arradiance intellectual property for Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) nanofilms. This revolutionary technology, the subject of 11 issued US patents and several pending US and worldwide patents, is a foundational technology for next generation photomultiplier tubes (PMT) in use at several high energy physics installations worldwide.
Synopsys, Inc. today announced Intel Custom Foundry's certification of digital and custom implementation tools from the Synopsys Galaxy™ Design Platform for Intel's 14-nanometer (nm) tri-gate process technology. The certification enables customers of Intel Custom Foundry to realize predictability in design closure while taking advantage of the power and performance benefits of the 14-nm tri-gate process.
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation ("Horizon"), a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services and cleantech industries, announced today it has closed a $10 million venture loan facility to The NanoSteel Company, Inc. ("NanoSteel"), a leader in nano-structured steel materials design. NanoSteel will use the proceeds for general working capital purposes.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have succeeded in developing a new microscope capable of observing the magnetic sensitivity of photochemical reactions believed to be responsible for the ability of some animals to navigate in the Earth's magnetic field, on a scale small enough to follow these reactions taking place inside sub-cellular structures.
Researchers have for the first time succeeded in recording a binary code on a synthetic polymer. Inspired by the capacity of DNA to retain an enormous amount of genetic information, a team from the Institut Charles Sadron de Strasbourg (CNRS) and the Institut de chimie radicalaire (CNRS/Aix Marseille Université) synthesized and read a multi-bit message on an artificial polymer. The results were published in Nature Communications on May 26, 2015.
The world's smallest continuous spirals have been created at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The spirals react in a unique way to polarized infrared light, which makes them very hard to counterfeit - this property could be used to prevent counterfeiting of currency, credit cards, or ID cards.
By Will Soutter
4 Jun 2015
TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (TPSCo) – a newly established company by Panasonic Corporation of which Tower Semiconductor Ltd. acquired 51%, and Synopsys, Inc., a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP, today announced that they have qualified a 65 nanometer (nm) CMOS image sensor (CIS) interoperable process design kit (iPDK) to allow customers to design and develop new products using Synopsys’ custom design solution.
Ultratech, Inc., a leading supplier of lithography, laser processing and inspection systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices and highbrightness LEDs (HB LEDs), as well as atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, announced that its Cambridge NanoTech business unit Ultratech-CNT has delivered a new, second-generation production tool, the Phoenix G2 Batch ALD system to a major Japanese manufacturer.
FireflySci, Inc. has come up with an explosive technological breakthrough in the spectrophotometer calibration industry. This new technology completely neutralizes all past issues that plagued researchers in the past when working with calibration standards.
A multi-university team that includes Vladislav Yakovlev, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded a five-year grant, totaling more than $7 million from the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.
Natural channel proteins are integrated into artificial membranes to facilitate the transport of ions and molecules. Researchers at the University of Basel have now been able to measure the movement of these channel proteins for the first time.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Scanning Probe Microscopy Market to 2025" report to their offering.