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Stretchable Electronics that can be Wrapped Around Complex Shapes

Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function.

21 Jan 2009

Achievement Paves Way for Manufacturing Reliable Electronic Nanocircuits at the Nanoscale

After announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led team of chemists has now modified that process to create exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes.

21 Jan 2009

Researchers "Tune" Graphene's Properties by Growing it on Different Surfaces

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics.

21 Jan 2009

Nanoradio AB Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company

Nanoradio AB, today announced that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies are chosen from winners and finalists of the previous North America, Europe ...

21 Jan 2009

Delivering Spin-Polarized Electrons Virtually on Demand

Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where ...

21 Jan 2009

Final Acceptance Test Certification Awarded for Applied Materials' SunFab Thin Film Line

Moser Baer, the global technology company, today announced that its photovoltaic subsidiary is ready for production of thin film photovoltaic modules at its manufacturing plant in Greater Noida. This follows final acceptance test (FAT) certification of Moser Baer Photovoltaic's SunFab™ Thin Film Line supplied by Applied Materials, Inc., the California-based nanomanufacturing technology solutions provider.

From Applied Materials Inc. 21 Jan 2009

Pioneering Battery Expert Joins EnerDel as CTO

One of the auto industry's leading experts on advanced hybrid and electric vehicle power systems has joined U.S. lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel as the company's new Chief Technology Officer.

20 Jan 2009

Another MEMS PVD Win for Tegal, the Leader in Stress Controlled Metal Film Deposition for MEMS Fabrication

Tegal Corporation (Nasdaq:TGAL), a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of MEMS, power semiconductor, and optoelectronic devices, announced today that the Company...

From Collabrx, Inc. 20 Jan 2009

PI Introduces Novel Ceramic Linear Motor Actuators with Sub-Nanometer Resolution

Piezo systems specialist PI will introduce the novel N-380 / N-381 NEXACT® ceramic linear motor actuators at this year's Photonics West conference in San Jose, CA. The new actuator is based on the Piezo Walk principle and replaces classical lead screw actuators combining high forces and long travel ranges with sub-nanometer resolution in a small package.

20 Jan 2009

University of Helsinki and ASM International Renewed Long-Term Research Agreement on ALD

Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and ASM Microchemistry Ltd. have renewed their long-term research agreement. ASM Microchemistry Ltd. is a subsidiary of the semiconductor processing tool su...

From ASM International 20 Jan 2009