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New Insights into Control of Plasma Behavior with Ultra-Thin Lithium Films on Graphite

The research of a multi-institutional team from the U.S., Japan, and France, led by Predrag S. Krstic of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences and Jean Paul Allain of Purdue University has answered the question of how the behavior of plasma—the extremely hot gases of nuclear fusion—can be controlled with ultra-thin lithium films on graphite walls lining thermonuclear magnetic fusion devices.

1 Feb 2013

New Template to Create Two-Dimensional Materials

It would be a terrible thing if laboratories striving to grow graphene from carbon atoms kept winding up with big pesky diamonds.

1 Feb 2013

Researchers Create 3D Microchip Using Nanotechnology

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created, for the first time, a new type of microchip which allows information to travel in three dimensions. Currently, microchips can only pass digital information in a very limited way - from either left to right or front to back. The research was published today, 31 January, in Nature.

1 Feb 2013

H2W Technologies Introduces New Vacuum Compatible SR Series Positioning Stage

H2W introduces a new vacuum compatible SR series positioning stage. The brushless linear motor positioning stage (P/N SRS-024-04-020-01V) is a closed loop system that can be used for positioning applications inside a vacuum environment.

From H2W Technologies 1 Feb 2013

MagForce Announce Research Project on Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Nanostart-holding MagForce AG (Frankfurt, XETRA: MF6), a leading medical technology company in the field of nanomedicine in oncology, today announced the start of a research project with the University of Bremen, Center ...

From Coreo AG 31 Jan 2013

NanoScope Services Extends FIB Web Conferencing Capability To Include High Resolution Optical Microscopy

NanoScope Services Ltd. An innovative European provider of outsourced microscopy and ion beam ‘nano-surgery’ services, announced today the extension of its novel LiveFIBTM web based consultancy capability – to include high resolution optical microscopy.

From NanoScope Services Ltd. 31 Jan 2013

Tighter Collaboration Needed Between Nanometer-Node Process Developers and Wafer Fab Managers

The rapidly growing application of SlurryScope™ systems at major semiconductor wafer fabs has begun to stimulate the need for tighter collaboration between nanometer-node process developers and the wafer fab managers who oversee the quality/delivery of slurry used during chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) process. Minimizing large particle counts (LPCs) in undiluted slurry at wafer planarization and polishing steps is becoming increasingly critical as complex chips are manufactured at ever finer geometries.

31 Jan 2013

Graphene Holds Potential for Transparent Electrodes

Found in flat screens, solar modules, or in new organic light-emitting diode (LED) displays, transparent electrodes have become ubiquitous. Typically, they consist of metal oxides like In2O3, SnO2, ZnO and TiO2.

31 Jan 2013

Veeco’s NEXUS Physical Vapor Deposition System Receives Philips Qualification

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Philips Innovation Services, a service provider within Royal Philips Electronics N.V., has recently qualified a NEXUS® Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) System at its location on the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, Netherlands. This system will support Philips Innovation Services’ capabilities in a broad range of thin film device applications, including MEMS, sensors, nano-electronics and others.

From Veeco 31 Jan 2013

Researchers Test Nanometer-Scale Esaki Tunnel Diodes for Extending Battery Life

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, international semiconductor consortium SEMATECH and Texas State University have demonstrated that use of new methods and materials for building integrated circuits can reduce power—extending battery life to 10 times longer for mobile applications compared to conventional transistors.

31 Jan 2013

Kilopass Completes JEDEC 3-Lot Qualification for SMIC LL CMOS Process Technologies

Kilopass Technology, Inc., the leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (NYSE: SMI) (SEHK: 981), a leading IC foundry, today announced that Kilopass IP has successfully completed the JEDEC 3-lot qualification for the SMIC 65nm, 55nm and 40nm low-leakage (LL) CMOS process technologies.

31 Jan 2013

Nobel Prize Winner for Graphene Bestowed Regius Professorship

The University of Manchester’s School of Physics and Astronomy has been awarded a prestigious Regius professorship by the Queen, the government has announced.

31 Jan 2013

Enzymes May Have a New Role as Intelligent Nanomotors in Medical Applications

Enzymes, workhorse molecules of life that underpin almost every biological process, may have a new role as "intelligent" micro- and nanomotors with applications in medicine, engineering and other fields. That's the topic of a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, showing that single molecules of common enzymes can generate enough force to cause movement in specific directions.

From American Chemical Society 31 Jan 2013

FlexTech Alliance Receives AFRL Award to Launch Nano-Bio Manufacturing Consortium

Remote, wireless monitoring of physiological functions and structural performance in real time has long been a goal of many manufacturing industries. Achievement of that goal is now a step closer to reality with the announcement today of an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) award to FlexTech Alliance of San Jose, Calif.

31 Jan 2013

Graphene and Human Brain Picked Among Six Visions for Frontier Research

On 28th January 2013, the European Commission announced that the winning projects are Graphene and Human Brain. Both initiatives are set to receive one billion euros each over ten years.

31 Jan 2013