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Patent Assets of Nanoelectronics Fabrication Sold by New Renaissance Institute

New Renaissance Institute, a Belmont, California-based for-profit interdisciplinary research and development organization, has declared that it has sold numerous molecular electronics patent assets, which cover important fields concerning the future of commercial carbon nanotube, graphene ribbon and semiconducting polymer nanoelectronics fabrication, to an undisclosed buyer in August 2011.

17 Sep 2011

Rice University Develops Nanocables Using Carbon Nanotubes

Rice University research team has developed a cable using double-walled carbon nanotubes. They have also demonstrated the cable’s conductivity by powering a fluorescent light bulb at normal line voltage.

9 Sep 2011

Tegal Declares Deadline to Submit Bids for its Portfolio of Nanolayer Deposition Patents

Tegal has announced that the deadline to submit bids for its nanolayer deposition technology (NLD) intellectual property portfolio is September 30, 2011. The deadline is subject to being withdrawn or extended.

From Collabrx, Inc. 8 Sep 2011

Novel Method to Fabricate Plasmonic Nanogap Arrays Quickly and Economically

A research team led by Dr. Stefan Strauf, who serves as Director of the NanoPhotonics Laboratory (NPL) at Stevens Institute of Technology, has devised a new method based on holographic lithography (HL) for producing evenly placed metallic nanostructures.

8 Sep 2011

Chinese Chip Design Firms Increase Investments in Advanced 28 nm Technology

The 10th annual IC Design House Survey of EE Times-China, eMedia Asia’s design engineering journal, has revealed that major IC design companies in Mainland China are using advanced 28 nm technology for chip development, while 9.2% of local fabless manufacturers have adopted ≤ 45 nm process technologies for the mass production of digital ICs.

7 Sep 2011

Nanometric Film Developer Unveils Advanced Film-Deposition Technology

Alchimer, a developer of processes and chemical formulations for the deposition of nanometric films for MEMS and microelectronic applications, has introduced an advanced film-deposition technology called the AquiVia TSV for through-silicon via (TSV) barrier-layer process.

7 Sep 2011

Tufts University Researchers Develop Electric Motor from Single Molecule

Scientists at the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University have devised a single molecule electrically-driven motor, first-of-its-kind device with a size of only 1 nm diagonally.

6 Sep 2011

Mercedes-Benz to Utilize NANOSLIDE Technology in Diesel Engines

Mercedes-Benz will use its pioneering twin-wire arc spraying technology called NANOSLIDE technology in the series production of its V6 diesel engines. Since 2006, the company has been utilizing the technology successfully in its 6.3-L AMG engines.

5 Sep 2011

New Manufacturing Technique Produces Chip Features As Small as 10nm

In a pair of recent papers, researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics and Singapore’s Engineering Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have demonstrated a new technique that could produce chip features only 10 nanometers.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 Sep 2011

Veeco Open New Technology Center in Taiwan

Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO), a leading supplier of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment used to make light emitting diodes (LEDs), celebrated the opening of its new Taiwan Technology Center...

From Veeco 31 Aug 2011