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POET BoD Endorses Recommendations to Reduce Submicron Feature Size to 100-nm Range for Monolithic IC Fabrication

POET Technologies Inc. (“the Company”) – developer of the proprietary planar-optoelectronic technology (“POET”) platform for monolithic fabrication of integrated electronic and optical devices on a single semiconductor wafer – announced today that its Board of Directors have endorsed the next phases of the Company’s commercialization plan put forward by the Special Strategic Committee (SSC) chaired by Executive Director Peter Copetti.

17 Aug 2013

Cadence EDI Used by Freescale Semiconductor to Tapeout 28nm QorIQ T4240 SoC

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that Freescale® Semiconductor used the latest release of Encounter® Digital Implementation (EDI) System to tapeout its next generation QorIQ® T4240 system on chip (SoC) running at 1.8 GHz. The T4240 is based on multiple 64-bit Power Architecture® clusters of high-performance e6500 processors and modern system peripherals.

From Cadence Design Systems 17 Aug 2013

Arrays of Nanoscale Sensors May Help Produce Drugs

MIT chemical engineers have discovered that arrays of billions of nanoscale sensors have unique properties that could help pharmaceutical companies produce drugs — especially those based on antibodies — more safely and efficiently.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 17 Aug 2013

Researchers Aim to Build Nano-Scale Memristors That Work like the Human Brain

Today’s computing chips are incredibly complex and contain billions of nano-scale transistors, allowing for fast, high-performance computers, pocket-sized smartphones that far outpace early desktop computers, and an explosion in handheld tablets.

17 Aug 2013

Flash Memory Summit 2013: Micron’s 16-nm NAND Technology Wins Best of Show Award

Flash Memory Summit 2013 -- Micron Technology, Inc., today announced that its 16-nanometer (nm) NAND process technology, enabling the industry's smallest 128-gigabit (Gb) multilevel cell (MLC) NAND Flash memory devices, has been chosen by Flash Memory Summit as the 2013 Best of Show award winner in the category of Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology.

From Micron Technology, Inc. 17 Aug 2013

Mitochondria-Targeted Nanoparticles to Fight Breast Cancer

Researchers at the University of Georgia are developing a new treatment technique that uses nanoparticles to reprogram immune cells so they are able to recognize and attack cancer. The findings were published recently in the early online edition of ACS Nano.

16 Aug 2013

Probability Distribution Measurement for Entropy Production of Electrons May Help Advance Nanoelectronics

Researchers at Aalto University and the University of Tokyo have succeeded for the first time in experimentally measuring a probability distribution for entropy production of electrons.

16 Aug 2013

Novel Spectrometer Measures Vibrations Between Atoms to Determine 3D Form of Molecules

A Rice University laboratory has improved upon its ability to determine molecular structures in three dimensions in ways that challenge long-used standards.

16 Aug 2013

Nitrogen Doped Graphene Rolled into Archimedean Nano Scrolls

Researchers at Umeå University, together with researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University, show in a new study how nitrogen doped graphene can be rolled into perfect Archimedean nano scrolls by adhering magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles on the surface of the graphene sheets. The new material may have very good properties for application as electrodes in for example Li-ion batteries.

16 Aug 2013

Continuum-Based Approach Used to Explain Dynamics of Liquid Metal Particles at Nanoscale

Two NJIT researchers have demonstrated that using a continuum-based approach, they can explain the dynamics of liquid metal particles on a substrate of a nanoscale. “Numerical simulation of ejected molten metal nanoparticles liquified by laser irradiation: Interplay of geometry and dewetting,” appeared in Physical Review Letters (July 16, 2013).

16 Aug 2013

Novel Microfluidic Device Holds Promise as Low-Cost, Portable Malaria-Detection Device

Researchers at MIT have found a way to detect early-stage malarial infection of blood cells by measuring changes in the infected cells’ electrical properties.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 16 Aug 2013

Global Market Overview of MEMS Components for Cell Phones and Tablets

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: MEMS for Cell Phones and Tablets

16 Aug 2013

Magnetless Spin Memory May Lead to Nanoparticle-Sized Memory Bits

Memory devices like disk drives, flash drives and RAM play an important role in our lives. They are an essential component of our computers, phones, electronic appliances and cars. Yet current memory devices have significant drawbacks: dynamic RAM memory has to be refreshed periodically, static RAM data is lost when the power is off, flash memory lacks speed, and all existing memory technologies are challenged when it comes to miniaturization.

16 Aug 2013

Thin Nanocrystal Coating Embedded in Glass Dynamically Modifies Sunlight Passing Through

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed a new material to make smart windows even smarter. The material is a thin coating of nanocrystals embedded in glass that can dynamically modify sunlight as it passes through a window.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Aug 2013

Novel Method to Manufacture Unusually Shaped and Functionalisable Nanostructures

The realisation of nanomachines is inching ever closer to reality. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are helping make one of the grand challenges of nanoscience become reality.

16 Aug 2013

Nanotechnology News

POET BoD Endorses Recommendations to Reduce Submicron Feature Size to 100-nm Range for Monolithic IC Fabrication

Cadence EDI Used by Freescale Semiconductor to Tapeout 28nm QorIQ T4240 SoC

Arrays of Nanoscale Sensors May Help Produce Drugs

Researchers Aim to Build Nano-Scale Memristors That Work like the Human Brain

Flash Memory Summit 2013: Micron’s 16-nm NAND Technology Wins Best of Show Award

Mitochondria-Targeted Nanoparticles to Fight Breast Cancer

Probability Distribution Measurement for Entropy Production of Electrons May Help Advance Nanoelectronics

Novel Spectrometer Measures Vibrations Between Atoms to Determine 3D Form of Molecules

Nitrogen Doped Graphene Rolled into Archimedean Nano Scrolls

Continuum-Based Approach Used to Explain Dynamics of Liquid Metal Particles at Nanoscale

Novel Microfluidic Device Holds Promise as Low-Cost, Portable Malaria-Detection Device

Global Market Overview of MEMS Components for Cell Phones and Tablets

Magnetless Spin Memory May Lead to Nanoparticle-Sized Memory Bits

Thin Nanocrystal Coating Embedded in Glass Dynamically Modifies Sunlight Passing Through

Novel Method to Manufacture Unusually Shaped and Functionalisable Nanostructures

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