http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures while employing chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) techniques which are in widespread use in semiconductor manufacturing. http://www.physorg.com/news178552799.html Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:00:59 EST news178552799 Up to now, extreme production temperatures made it impossible to equip metallic components with RFID chips during the operating process. At Euromold in Frankfurt (Dec. 2-5), Germany, Fraunhofer researchers present a variation on a process that makes the non-destructive integration of radio chips a reality. http://www.physorg.com/news178279408.html Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:20:02 EST news178279408 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets. http://www.physorg.com/news177083799.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:30:01 EST news177083799 (PhysOrg.com) -- Solar wafers for use in the production of photovoltaic systems are extremely sensitive. In a test and demonstration center research is being conducted on grippers to determine the best way of handling delicate wafers in order to optimize the production process. http://www.physorg.com/news176571725.html Technology Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:06 EST news176571725 Shoppers could see lower prices but less variety to choose from as more manufacturers sell directly to consumers through the Internet, according to new research led by a University of Illinois business professor. http://www.physorg.com/news176397465.html Other Sciences Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:30:01 EST news176397465 North American car manufacturers have come bottom of the league in the largest ever international study of the global automobile sector's sustainability performance. http://www.physorg.com/news176100931.html Other Sciences Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:20:03 EST news176100931 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Foresight Institute, a nanotechnology education and public policy think tank based in Palo Alto, has announced the winners of the prestigious 2009 Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology. http://www.physorg.com/news174230058.html Nanotechnology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:14:43 EST news174230058 (AP) -- A massive Dell Inc. computer assembly plant once seen as a job generator worthy of the promise of more than $300 million in state and local inducements will go dark in four months, a victim of new corporate calculations and changing customer tastes. http://www.physorg.com/news174160249.html Technology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:51:07 EST news174160249 It's often the little things that count in industrial manufacturing processes. Particles less than half the diameter of a hair in size can significantly impair quality in production. For example, there should be no particles larger than five micrometers on the packaging film of food and medicines, as these could contaminate the contents. http://www.physorg.com/news174141490.html Technology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:00:05 EST news174141490 Crash tests often produce startling results. A new simulation process which factors in deformation during production as well as preliminary damage can predict the results of a crash test more accurately than ever. http://www.physorg.com/news172136236.html Technology Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:23:54 EST news172136236 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has become the first foundry not only to achieve 28nm functional 64Mb SRAM yield, but also to achieve it across all three 28nm nodes. http://www.physorg.com/news170353677.html Technology Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:10:01 EST news170353677 (PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny computer chips, while making them more energy efficient and less expensive to manufacture. http://www.physorg.com/news169796309.html Nanotechnology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:39:11 EST news169796309 (PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology - the controlled use of fire - to increase the quality and efficiency of their stone tool manufacturing process, is being reported in the Aug. 14 issue of the journal Science. An international team of researchers, including three from the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, deduce that "this technology required a novel association between fire, its heat, and a structural change in stone with consequent flaking benefits." Further, their findings ignite the notion of complex cognition in these early engineers. http://www.physorg.com/news169391684.html Other Sciences Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:16:19 EST news169391684 (PhysOrg.com) -- Modelling the fabrication processes for integrated circuits can slash production development time and costs by up to 40%. But as transistors, already at nano-scales, become ever smaller, researchers are modelling new worlds. Over the past seven years, the microprocessors in everyday electronic equipment have delivered astonishing advances in speed while reducing power consumption per transistor. http://www.physorg.com/news169134954.html Technology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:10:01 EST news169134954 New technology designed to analyse large numbers of novel marine microbes could lead to more efficient and greener ways to manufacture new drugs for conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, flu and other viruses, as well as improving the manufacture of other products such as agrochemicals. http://www.physorg.com/news168858091.html Biology Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:40:01 EST news168858091 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists based at UQ are working towards one of sustainable energy`s holy grails - harvesting the untapped potential of sugar cane. http://www.physorg.com/news166427403.html Biology Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:50:34 EST news166427403 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday the strain of E. coli found in a sample of raw cookie dough collected at a Nestle USA manufacturing plant does not match the strain that has been linked to a 30-state outbreak, and they aren't sure how the dough was contaminated. http://www.physorg.com/news166425083.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:11:44 EST news166425083 (AP) -- If shopping for household essentials like toilet paper and soap isn't your favorite activity, a new Web site might eliminate the task - while saving you cash. http://www.physorg.com/news165667658.html Technology Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:47:56 EST news165667658 General Electric announced plans Friday to open an "advanced manufacturing technology and software center" in Michigan that could create more than 1,100 job in the coming years. http://www.physorg.com/news165254473.html Technology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:01:38 EST news165254473 The new factory hall has just been completed when the owner realizes that several things have gone wrong. The doors should be on the other side and production will need more space. A new planning guideline will prevent such annoying design faults in the future. http://www.physorg.com/news162047335.html Technology Wed, 20 May 2009 14:09:23 EST news162047335 (PhysOrg.com) -- AMD is in the process of designing a server chip with up to 16-cores. Code named Interlagos, the server chip will contain between 12 and 16 cores and will be available in 2011. http://www.physorg.com/news160045626.html Electronics Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:07:51 EST news160045626 IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, and STMicroelectronics have defined and are jointly developing a 28-nanometer, high-k metal gate (HKMG), low-power bulk complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology. http://www.physorg.com/news159467422.html Technology Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:31:06 EST news159467422 Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML on Wednesday announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news158991897.html Technology Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:26:17 EST news158991897 (PhysOrg.com) -- 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. http://www.physorg.com/news158582784.html Nanotechnology Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:46:56 EST news158582784 Protecting J.J., the 4-month-old son of Shawna Bader-Blau, is time-consuming, what with checking labels, reading safety information, buying chemical-free baby wipes and finding phthalate-free baby bottles. http://www.physorg.com/news156625243.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:01:45 EST news156625243 (PhysOrg.com) -- Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of 20 major manufacturing processes. http://www.physorg.com/news156606872.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:55:12 EST news156606872 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of Leicester have invented a new technique in the manufacture of ceramics that has the potential to save the industry time and costs while reducing wastage. http://www.physorg.com/news156160393.html Technology Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:54:56 EST news156160393 Anne Kai, of Lacey, Wash., owns a small, hand-dyed fabric business with an environmental slant. http://www.physorg.com/news155240883.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:28:27 EST news155240883 Intel Corp., the world's biggest computer chip-maker, said Wednesday that it has developed a manufacturing process that shrinks the circuitry in a chip to just 32 nanometers. http://www.physorg.com/news148134336.html Technology Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:25:36 EST news148134336 A technology which provides high quality images of the crystallisation process marks the next step towards a 'right first time' approach to drug manufacture, according to engineers at the University of Leeds. http://www.physorg.com/news141296011.html Chemistry Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:53:31 EST news141296011