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Collaboration to Study Promising Application of GeSn for Future pMOS Devices

GeSn materials show promise, for example as embedded source/drain stressors for Ge channels in future pMOS devices. Imec has started a collaboration to assess the possible applications of GeSn materials, and to see how these applications could be implemented.

From IMEC 21 Jun 2010

Vive Nano Receives 2010 Frost + Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation

Based on its recent analysis of the nanomaterial encapsulation technology market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Vive Nano with the 2010 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation for a unique encapsulation technology to synthesize nanoparticles.

21 Jun 2010

Sosei to Acquire Nano-Particle Technology Developer in Japan

Sosei Group Corporation ("Sosei"; TSE Mothers Index: 4565), announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire 100% of Activus Pharma Ltd. ("Activus"), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company based in Ch...

21 Jun 2010

New Report on Nanoscale Materials in Chemistry

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/462fd8/nanoscale_material) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Nanoscale Materials in Chemistry, 2nd Edition" to their...

21 Jun 2010

Silver Nanoparticles Addition to LCD Waste Can Destroy Bacterial Infections

The fastest growing waste in the EU could soon be helping to combat hospital infections, according to scientists at the University of York. Researchers at the University's Department of Chemistry have discov...

19 Jun 2010

Iron Nanoparticles Demonstrate Unprecedented Ability to Clean Contaminated Groundwater

Iron nanoparticles 1,000 times thinner than a human hair have demonstrated an unprecedented ability to clean contaminated groundwater since they were invented 10 years ago at Lehigh. The palladium-coated particles hav...

18 Jun 2010

New Research on Semiconductor Nanocrystals to Increase Solar Cell Efficiency

Conventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin.

18 Jun 2010

Research Opens New Possibilities in Quantum Mechanics

Physicists at Harvard University have, for the first time, tracked individual atoms in a gas cooled to extreme temperatures as the particles reorganized into a crystal, a process driven by quantum mechanics. The res...

18 Jun 2010

Artificial 'Molecules' with Asymmetric Structure can Control Flow of Electrons in Semiconductor Materials

Nanoscale devices confine electrons and enable manipulation of electron spin—an inherent property akin to the direction in which the particle is rotating. An unexpected mechanism for this control in asymmetric stru...

17 Jun 2010

Researchers Make Magnetic Sheets Nanometers Thick

Materials do funny things at the nanoscale. A metal oxide complex called lanthanum strontium manganite is ferromagnetic in large quantities. But scaled to nanometer thickness, it becomes an insulator and loses much of its ferromagnetism. Same material, different behavior.

17 Jun 2010