January 18, 2012 - Industry News
New microtweezers may build tiny 'MEMS' structures
The microtweezers might be used to assemble structures in microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, which contain tiny moving ...
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November 30, 2011 - Industry News
Graphene earns its stripes: New nanoscale electronic state discovered on graphene sheets
Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) have discovered electronic stripes, called 'charge density waves', on the surface of ...
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November 28, 2011 - Industry News
NC State team to develop energy efficient 3-D CPU
Researchers from North Carolina State University are developing a three-dimensional (3D) central processing unit (CPU) – the brains of the ...
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October 17, 2011 - Industry News
Could a computer one day rewire itself? New nanomaterial 'steers' current in multiple dimensions
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial that can "steer" electrical currents. The development could lead to a computer ...
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October 6, 2011 - Industry News
Materials scientists develop topological insulator with a switch
Scientists at Stanford and SLAC have found a potential way to harness the amazing properties of topological insulators -- materials that conduct ...
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September 28, 2011 - Industry News
Bold approach could change electronics industry
Two professors from the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have received funds to study a new approach that could ...
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September 22, 2011 - Industry News
Faster, smaller and more economical gallium nitride transistors
For the first time, researchers from CNRS France and ETH Zurich have succeeded in producing high-performance high-electron-mobility ...
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September 16, 2011 - Industry News
Improving lasers with microring mirrors
We use lasers everyday, though many of us may not think about it. "Lasers are in a number of consumer products. We have them in DVD players ...
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August 19, 2011 - Industry News
Faster organic semiconductors for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method
Organic semiconductors hold immense promise for use in thin film and flexible displays - picture an iPad you can roll up - but they haven't ...
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August 18, 2011 - Industry News
Faster organic semi's for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method
A single crystal of the new organic semiconductor material shown in polarized light. It is approximately twice as fast as the parent organic ...
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August 11, 2011 - Industry News
'Data motion metric' needed for supercomputer rankings
As we enter the era of data-intensive research and supercomputing, the world's top computer systems should not be ranked on calculation speed ...
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August 10, 2011 - Industry News
A silicon chip with integrated laser and optical grating offers new possibilities for telecommunications
Silicon is an ideal platform for integrated photonic circuits because the material is cheap and readily available. Silicon chips with an ...
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July 25, 2011 - Industry News
New 3-D photonic crystal has both electronic, optical properties
In an advance that could open new avenues for solar cells, lasers, metamaterials and more, researchers at the University of Illinois have ...
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July 11, 2011 - Industry News
MIT spinout unveils new more powerful direct-diode laser
TeraDiode, a spinout company from MIT and located nearby in Littleton, MA, has unveiled, a new powerful direct-diode laser capable of cutting all ...
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July 8, 2011 - Industry News
New 'cooler' technology breakthrough in heat transfer for microelectronics
Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technology with the potential to dramatically alter the air-cooling landscape in computing ...
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June 23, 2011 - Industry News
Elpida achieves 4-Layer 0.8mm mobile RAM package
The super thin package consists of four low-power consumption 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAMTM chips and was assembled using Package on Package (PoP) ...
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June 1, 2011 - Industry News
Nanopillars boost the power conversion efficiency of thin-film solar cells
One of the major challenges in the world today is the energy crisis. The high demand and low supply of fossil fuel are driving up oil and food ...
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May 31, 2011 - Industry News
Boron nitride is a promising path to practical graphene devices
Graphene is a two-dimensional honeycomb of carbon, just one atom thick, whose intriguing electronic properties include very high electron ...
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May 26, 2011 - Industry News
Researchers Advance Design-Dependent Process Monitoring for Semi Wafer Manufacturing
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and ...
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May 26, 2011 - Industry News
Broadening uses put MEMS technology on the map(s)
Behind the smart phone's continuing transformation into the quintessential multipurpose tool is the rise and diversification of ...
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May 26, 2011 - Industry News
Radical new Intel transistor based on UC Berkeley's FinFET
Intel Corporation announced what it called the most radical shift in semiconductor technology in 50 years. A new three-dimensional transistor ...
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May 24, 2011 - Industry News
New superconductive properties discovered in old sandwich material
Japanese researchers, led by Masashi Kawasaki, have discovered that a previously known kind of double layered material created using ...
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May 13, 2011 - Industry News
Non-lead solder alloy saves environment
Research at The University of Queensland has helped a Japanese company stay at the industry forefront of environmentally sustainable soldering and ...
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April 18, 2011 - Industry News
Hot off the press: Nanoscale Gutenberg-style printing
When Gutenberg developed the principles of modern book printing, books became available to the masses. Hoping to bring technology capable of ...
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April 12, 2011 - Industry News
IBM introduces new graphene transistor
In a report published in Nature, Yu-ming Lin and Phaedon Avoris, IBM researchers, have announced the development of a new graphene transistor ...
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