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. In Trina Solar's brilliant white factory in eastern China, masked workers in lab coats turn silicon wafers into solar power cells capable of harnessing the sun's clean and limitless energy. http://www.physorg.com/news179042795.html Technology Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:07:16 EST news179042795 You can think of it as origami - very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary interactions. http://www.physorg.com/news178212895.html Nanotechnology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:10:13 EST news178212895 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer. http://www.physorg.com/news177062908.html Nanotechnology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:10:01 EST news177062908 CMOS image sensors in special cameras -- as used for driver assistance systems -- mostly only provide monochrome images and have a limited sensitivity to light. Thanks to a new production process these sensors can now distinguish color and are much more sensitive to light. http://www.physorg.com/news173966470.html Technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:40:02 EST news173966470 Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as logic circuits to be used in future Intel microprocessors. http://www.physorg.com/news172852816.html Technology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:10:01 EST news172852816 (PhysOrg.com) -- MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news171812351.html Nanotechnology Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:30:02 EST news171812351 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists have demonstrated a promising and practical method that effectively eliminates the mechanical wear in the nanometer-sharp tips used in scanning probe-based techniques. This discovery can potentially be used in the development of next generation, more advanced computer chips that have higher performance and smaller feature sizes. Scanning probe-based tools could be one approach to extend the capabilities, quality and precision beyond the projected limits of current production and characterization tools. http://www.physorg.com/news171563990.html Nanotechnology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:40:35 EST news171563990 (PhysOrg.com) -- Fifteen years ago, when Alan Lakso first sought to enlist Cornell's nanofabrication laboratory to develop a tiny sensor that would measure water stress in grapevines, the horticultural sciences professor ended up back at the drawing board. http://www.physorg.com/news166201610.html Chemistry Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:40:01 EST news166201610 (PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, any flat surface -- isn't there. http://www.physorg.com/news161450973.html Physics Wed, 13 May 2009 16:30:29 EST news161450973 (PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers have created a new type of microscopic swimmer: a magnetized spiral that corkscrews through liquids and is able to deliver chemicals and push loads larger than itself. http://www.physorg.com/news161273998.html Nanotechnology Mon, 11 May 2009 15:20:35 EST news161273998 The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, according to a team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin. http://www.physorg.com/news160924908.html Nanotechnology Thu, 07 May 2009 14:22:29 EST news160924908 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer level to engineer the first-ever nanoscale fluidic device with complex three-dimensional surfaces. As described in a recent paper in the journal Nanotechnology,* the Lilliputian chamber is a prototype for future tools with custom-designed surfaces to manipulate and measure different types of nanoparticles in solution. http://www.physorg.com/news158424738.html Nanotechnology Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:52:42 EST news158424738 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer (billionth of a meter) level and used it to develop a method for engineering the first-ever nanoscale fluidic (nanofluidic) device with complex three-dimensional surfaces. http://www.physorg.com/news157729849.html Nanotechnology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:51:10 EST news157729849 Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology. http://www.physorg.com/news156522913.html Nanotechnology Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:36:02 EST news156522913 As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University are studying how electrons flow through a molecular junction -a nanometer scale circuit element that contacts gold atoms with a single molecule. Their findings reveal the electrical resistance through this junction can be turned 'on' and 'off' simply by pushing and pulling the junction -a feature that could be used as a switch in nanoscale electronic devices. http://www.physorg.com/news155309783.html Nanotechnology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:36:54 EST news155309783 In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter. http://www.physorg.com/news152455521.html Chemistry Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:45:51 EST news152455521