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New Breed of Micro-Supercapacitors Boosting Performance and Longevity of Portable Electric Energy Storage Devices

"Just think how often your fancy new mobile phone or computer has become little more than a paperweight because the battery lost its zeal for doing its job," says John Chmiola, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 23 Apr 2010

Breakthrough 3D Microscopic Technique Improves Development of Nanoscale Structures and Devices

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have created a 3D map of the earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt.* The scientists accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex - 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil - to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity.

23 Apr 2010

SUBTLE Solution for Nanoelectronic Devices

European researchers have developed a new class of electronics that uses noise – normally a problem – as part of the signal. It means better, faster electronics. “It is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of soun...

23 Apr 2010

Advanced Copper Plating Chemistry for Current and Future Generation Chip Technologies

BASF has created an advanced copper plating chemistry for current and future generation chip technologies. The innovative chemical solution, which is the direct result of the joint development program with IBM started in June 2007, outperforms other commercially available chemistries.

22 Apr 2010

Micrel's New MIC23060 IC Offers Flexible Sequencing for Latest Portable Devices

Micrel, Inc., an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, today introduced the MIC23060.

22 Apr 2010

Intersil to Donate its Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facility

Intersil Corporation, a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced that it will donate a high-technology semiconductor wafer fabrication facility and the land it occupies to the University of Central Florida.

22 Apr 2010