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New Cooling Method Dissipates Heat by Overcoming Low Rate of Thermal Coupling between Carbon Nanotubes and Substrate

Our modern age has become accustomed to regular improvements in information technology, says Slava Rotkin from Lehigh University, but these advances do not come without a cost. Take the laptop, for example. Its compon...

13 Apr 2009

New Study Sheds New Light on Behavior of Materials

The speed at which heat moves between two materials touching each other is a potent indicator of how strongly they are bonded to each other, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

13 Apr 2009

Innovation Opens Door to a Wide Range of Applications in Photonics

Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, lasers in which the direction of oscillation of the emitted radiation, known as polarization, can be designed and controlled at will.

13 Apr 2009

Scientists Examine the Effect of Synthetic Nanoparticles

Cerium oxide is a ceramic nano-abrasive. Scientists have now examined, under conditions close to reality, what happens when it is breathed in and deposited on the lung surface. Initially, the result was rather reassuring.

12 Apr 2009

Toshiba 43nm MLC NAND Flash Selected as Most Innovated Non-Volatile Memory in Semiconductor Insights' Eighth Annual Insight Awards

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced that Toshiba 43nm MLC NAND flash was selected as the Most Innovated Non-Volatile Memory in Semiconductor Insights' Eighth Annual Insight Awards.

9 Apr 2009

New Method Could Lead to Narrower Chip Patterns

Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light.

9 Apr 2009

CEA/Leti and IBM to Collaborate on Research in Semiconductor and Nanoelectronics Technology

CEA/Leti (the Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory of the CEA, based in Grenoble), and IBM today announced that they will collaborate on research in semiconductor and nanoelectronics technology.

From CEA-Leti 9 Apr 2009

IR Wins Major Award from EDAW-NEC Magazine for its Revolutionary GaN-Based Power Device Platform

International Rectifier, IR® (NYSE:IRF), a world leader in power management technology, today announced it has won a major award from Electronic Design and Application World-Nikkei Electronics China (EDAW-NEC) magazi...

9 Apr 2009

Cytec Industries and IMEC Announces Partnership to Increase Lifetime of Organic Photovoltaics

Cytec Industries Inc. (NYSE:CYT), a global leader in specialty chemicals and materials, and IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute will work together to develop a commercially viable technology for organic photovoltaic devices with enhanced stability and extended lifetime.

From IMEC 9 Apr 2009

Partnership to Provide Advanced Nanotechnology Research and Analysis

Masscal Scientific Instruments, Inc., and NanoSpective, Inc., announced the collaborative partnership recently. Masscal manufactures and markets laboratory instruments and products to detect and analyze synthetic, na...

8 Apr 2009