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Eco-Friendly Way for Mass Production of Graphene Oxide

"We can make you and we can break you." If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But this song wouldn't break anybody's heart. A new paper fr...

23 Jul 2010

New Advanced Cooling Technology for Electronics Uses Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of handling roughly 10 times the heat generated by conventional computer chips.

23 Jul 2010

Photonics Professor Works on Quantum Computing

When waves - regardless of whether light or sound - collide, they overlap creating interferences. Austrian and Canadian quantum physicists have now been able to rule out the existence of higher-order interferences experimentally and thereby confirmed an axiom in quantum physics: Born's rule.

23 Jul 2010

Major Chipmaker Orders Three Wafer Inspection Systems from Camtek

Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: CAMT) ("Camtek"), announced today that it received follow-on orders for three wafer inspection systems from a major IDM (Integrated Device Maker) and chipmaker. The three system...

23 Jul 2010

Fujitsu Deploys Cadence’s Technology for Logic Design at 65-nm Process

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that Fujitsu Limited has adopted the Cadence® Encounter® Conformal® ECO Designer to cut costs and reduce design time in its engineering change order (ECO) implementation flow.

From Cadence Design Systems 23 Jul 2010

Virage Logic Expands Collaboration with SMIC for 40nm LL Process Technology

Virage Logic Corporation (Nasdaq: VIRL), the semiconductor industry's trusted IP partner, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC; NYSE: SMI and SEHK: 0981.HK), the leading foundry in China, t...

23 Jul 2010

Samsung to Develop Advanced NAND Flash Memory Along with Toshiba

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Toshiba Corporation today announced their commitment to development of the most advanced high-performance NAND flash memory technology available today – a double data rate (DDR) NAND flash memory with a 400 megabit-per-second (Mbps) interface, toggle DDR 2.0 specification.

From Samsung Electronics 22 Jul 2010

Economic Solution to Reduce Surface Tension During Nanowire Production

Surface tension isn't a very powerful force, but it matters for small things — water bugs, paint, and, it turns out, nanowires.

22 Jul 2010

Simple Surface-Based Chemical Method to Grow Graphene Nanoribbons

In the recent issue of Nature, scientists from Empa and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research report how they have managed for the first time to grow graphene ribbons that are just a few nanometres wide using a simple surface-based chemical method.

22 Jul 2010

Northeastern University Receives $2 Million Grant to Help Commercialize Nanotechnology

Northeastern University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a $2 million grant to help commercialize nanotechnology and put smaller, more energy efficient electronic devices in the hands of consumers more quickly.

21 Jul 2010