February 3, 2012 - Industry News
SEMATECH celebrates 25 years
This year, SEMATECH observes its 25th anniversary and celebrates the pre-competitive collaboration that has been the foundation for many of the ...
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December 20, 2011 - Industry News
On the edge of friction
The problem exists on both a large and a small scale, and it even bothered the ancient Egyptians. However, although physicists have long had a good ...
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December 2, 2011 - Industry News
Nanotechnology could make battery recycling economically attractive
Batteries are an integral part of modern life – just go ahead and count the batteries that you use yourself in your watches, computers, cell phones, ...
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November 10, 2011 - Industry News
Mini Robots Invade US Nanospace
What is the size of a gambling die, zips around a microscope stage at 2mm/s but can stop on a dime with nanometer precision, then manipulate and ...
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November 1, 2011 - Industry News
Thin films: The electronic competition
The atom-by-atom growth of a crystalline film on a crystalline substrate, a process known as epitaxy, is employed in a wide range of applications to ...
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October 31, 2011 - Industry News
Nanoscale copper research leads to golden discovery
Carleton University research into technologies for producing nano-scale copper metal layers for use in the semiconductor industry has had an ...
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October 4, 2011 - Industry News
New nanostructure synthesis process set to boost solar cell efficiency
In recent years various bottom-up processes (such as growth techniques) and top-down processes (such as electron beam, lithography, nanoimprint) ...
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September 29, 2011 - Industry News
Physicists find strong bonds between rare-earth metals and graphene
Transistors and information storage devices are getting smaller and smaller. But, to go as small as the nanoscale, scientists must understand ...
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September 29, 2011 - Industry News
Patterning nanopillars onto a silicon surface
The ever-increasing demand for enhanced performance in electronic devices such as solar cells, sensors and batteries is matched by a need to find ...
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August 23, 2011 - Industry News
Electrodeposition moving to ever smaller dimensions
To tackle future electrodeposition challenges, imec is doing research to understand all the physics involved, and to develop processing routes. ...
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August 23, 2011 - Industry News
Stretchable lighting
Electronic devices with muscles--like stretchability have long been pursued, but not achieved due to the requirement that all materials in the ...
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August 23, 2011 - Industry News
Ultra-low-power readout architecture for MEMS/NEMS sensors
Imec and Holst Centre report an ultralow-power readout ASIC for capacitive MEMS/NEMS-based sensors. The system can read both accelerometers and ...
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August 17, 2011 - Industry News
Quantum point contact microscopy - a novel method for surface characterization
The atomic structures of nanoscale contacts are not available in most experiments on quantum transport. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) ...
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July 27, 2011 - Industry News
Integrating DNA nanotechnology with traditional silicon processing for sub-20nm resolution
To build microprocessors with more than one billion transistors, manufacturers still use the same technique – photolithography, the ...
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June 23, 2011 - Industry News
Laser-based nanoparticle processing for nanoelectronics fabrication
Many applications in the electronics industry require some form of micro- or nanopatterning technique in fabricating the devices, structures and ...
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June 22, 2011 - Industry News
Brain-inspired computing with nanoelectronic programmable synapses
The total energy consumption of the human brain is about 25 watts and it is estimated that it uses about 10 watts for a basic computation. Now ...
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June 21, 2011 - Industry News
Self-assembling electronic nano-components for spintronic devices
Magnetic storage media such as hard drives have revolutionized the handling of information: We are used to dealing with huge quantities of ...
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June 16, 2011 - Industry News
IME launches 11th Electronic Packaging Research Consortium
The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) has launched its 11th Electronic Packaging Research Consortium to address various technology challenges ...
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June 13, 2011 - Industry News
Scientists Demonstrate First Telecommunications Wavelength Quantum Dot Laser Grown on a Silicon Substrate
A new generation of high speed, silicon-based information technology has been brought a step closer by researchers in the Department of ...
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June 3, 2011 - Industry News
The fine art of etching
They see more than the naked eye and could make traffic safer: miniaturized thermal imaging sensors. But they are difficult to manufacture on a ...
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May 6, 2011 - Industry News
SRC Drives Key Initiatives to Accelerate Industry Adoption of 3D Integration
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced it is leading an effort to address key roadblocks for wide-scale adoption of the emerging 3D ...
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April 19, 2011 - Industry News
China to boost integrated circuit sector as 'state strategy'
China will boost the integrated circuit (IC) sector at a "state strategy" level over the next five years through 2015. China's IC sales will ...
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April 19, 2011 - Industry News
Self-sintering conductive inks simplify printing of plastic electronics
Ink-jet printing of metal nanoparticles for conductive metal patterns has attracted great interest as an alternative to expensive fabrication ...
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April 7, 2011 - Industry News
Human-motion detection - nanotechnology takes interactivity to a new level
Nanotechnology-enabled electronics of the future will be invisible, i.e. transparent and flexible. Instead of rigid semiconductor chips we'll see ...
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April 4, 2011 - Industry News
Nanocrystal doping results in semiconductor nanocrystals with enhanced electrical function
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have achieved a breakthrough in the field of nanoscience by successfully altering nanocrystal ...
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