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Renesas Unveils RX64M Microcontrollers Fabricated in 40 nm Process

Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, today unveiled the RX64M Group of microcontrollers (MCUs), its first product in the flagship RX Family of 32-bit MCUs to be fabricated in a 40 nm process.

28 Feb 2014

Phonon Spectrometer Precisely Measures Subtle Movement of Heat in Nanostructures

How heat flows at the nanoscale can be very different than at larger scales. Understanding how surfaces affect the transport of the fundamental units of heat, called phonons, could impact everything from thermoelectric materials to microelectronic cooling devices.

28 Feb 2014

Toshiba Nanoanalysis Corporation has Selected ZEISS Xradia 520 Versa 3D X-ray Microscope

Carl Zeiss X-ray Microscopy, formerly Xradia, Inc., announced today that Kawasaki, Japan-based Toshiba Nanoanalysis Corporation has selected the recently-introduced ZEISS Xradia 520 Versa 3D X-ray microscope (XRM) to expand the capabilities of its busy analysis lab.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 28 Feb 2014

HORIBA Scientific Announces New Confocal Raman System for Pittcon 2014 - XploRA™ PLUS

HORIBA Scientific (HORIBA), the global leader in Raman spectroscopy systems, is proud to announce the launch at Pittcon, of their new XploRA™ PLUS Raman microscope. XploRA™ PLUS incorporates unique and powerful research functions in an impressively compact analytical bench footprint.

From HORIBA 28 Feb 2014

How a 55 Year Old Lecture 'Think Small' Has Influenced a Modern Day Start-up

On December 29, 1959, when physicist Richard Feynman stood behind a podium at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society to give his talk, There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, the IBM Series 7000 computer was the top of the line model for scientific computing.

From Nanotronics Imaging 28 Feb 2014

Cypress Capacitive Touchscreen Controllers Support Silver Nanoparticle Touch Sensors from Cima NanoTech

Cypress Semiconductor Corp., the market leader in touch-sensing, announced its TrueTouch® capacitive touchscreen controllers support designs with SANTE® silver nanoparticle touch sensors from Cima NanoTech, here at Mobile World Congress. Cima NanoTech's SANTE FS200 Touch Films is the first silver nanoparticle-based touch sensor compatible with Cypress's TrueTouch controllers.

27 Feb 2014

New Report on Status of the MEMS Industry

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Executive Summary of the Status of the MEMS Industry" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 27 Feb 2014

Researchers Advance THz Spectroscopy for Detection of Explosives from Greater Distances

Standing in a full-body scanner at an airport isn't fun, and the process adds time and stress to a journey. It also raises privacy concerns. Researchers now report in ACS' The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters a more precise and direct method for using that "terahertz" (THz) technology to detect explosives from greater distances.

From American Chemical Society 27 Feb 2014

Carestream's FLEXX Silver Nanowire Sensors Operate Seamlessly with Cypress TrueTouch Controllers

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Carestream Advanced Materials announced that Cypress TrueTouch® capacitive touchscreen controllers now work with touch panel designs using silver nanowire sensors from Carestream, here at Mobile World Congress.

27 Feb 2014

New DSA Lithography Techniques May Help Decrease Cost of Manufacturing Semiconductors

MIT researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, have introduced new directed self-assembly (DSA) techniques that promise to help semiconductor manufacturers develop more advanced and less expensive components.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 27 Feb 2014

Superabsorbing Design Boosts Light Absorption Efficiency of Thin Film Solar Cells

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a "superabsorbing" design that may significantly improve the light absorption efficiency of thin film solar cells and drive down manufacturing costs.

From North Carolina State University 27 Feb 2014

Optical ‘Nanocavity’ Boosts Light Absorption of Ultrathin Semiconductors

Associated with unhappy visits to the dentist, "cavity" means something else in the branch of physics known as optics.

27 Feb 2014

3D Microgels May Hold the Key to Personalized Medicine

Rather than your average bowl of Lucky Charms, these are three-dimensional cell cultures generated by an exciting new digital microfluidics platform, the results of which have been published in Nature Communications this week by researchers at the University of Toronto.

27 Feb 2014

Hard X-ray Fluorescence Bionanoprobe Makes 3-D Images of Frozen Biological Samples

It's an odd twist. For scientists to determine if a cell is functioning properly, they must destroy it.

From Argonne National Laboratory 27 Feb 2014

Sapwood May Filter Bacteria Measuring About 200 Nanometers

If you’ve run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip, there’s a simple solution: Break off a branch from the nearest pine tree, peel away the bark, and slowly pour lake water through the stick. The improvised filter should trap any bacteria, producing fresh, uncontaminated water.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 27 Feb 2014

Nanotechnology News

Renesas Unveils RX64M Microcontrollers Fabricated in 40 nm Process

Phonon Spectrometer Precisely Measures Subtle Movement of Heat in Nanostructures

Toshiba Nanoanalysis Corporation has Selected ZEISS Xradia 520 Versa 3D X-ray Microscope

HORIBA Scientific Announces New Confocal Raman System for Pittcon 2014 - XploRA™ PLUS

How a 55 Year Old Lecture 'Think Small' Has Influenced a Modern Day Start-up

Cypress Capacitive Touchscreen Controllers Support Silver Nanoparticle Touch Sensors from Cima NanoTech

New Report on Status of the MEMS Industry

Researchers Advance THz Spectroscopy for Detection of Explosives from Greater Distances

Carestream's FLEXX Silver Nanowire Sensors Operate Seamlessly with Cypress TrueTouch Controllers

New DSA Lithography Techniques May Help Decrease Cost of Manufacturing Semiconductors

Superabsorbing Design Boosts Light Absorption Efficiency of Thin Film Solar Cells

Optical ‘Nanocavity’ Boosts Light Absorption of Ultrathin Semiconductors

3D Microgels May Hold the Key to Personalized Medicine

Hard X-ray Fluorescence Bionanoprobe Makes 3-D Images of Frozen Biological Samples

Sapwood May Filter Bacteria Measuring About 200 Nanometers

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