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Thermochemical nanolithography now allows multiple chemicals on a chip

Thermochemical nanolithography now allows multiple chemicals on a chip

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of ...


Novel nano-devices developed by U of T researchers

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Toronto researchers continue to uncover the mysteries of space. But even the best astronauts in the world are stymied if the spaceship doesn't launch. When the countdown stops, it is often because ...


IBM Scientists Effectively Eliminate Wear at the Nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 8

(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 ...


Bio-enabled, surface-mediated approach produces nanoparticle composites

Bio-enabled, surface-mediated approach produces nanoparticle composites

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to form strong and flexible composite structures that have unusual optical and mechanical ...


Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of "nanolithography" required to make future computer chips.


Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1983, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine that could create smaller scale replicas of itself. Today, such a system is still a challenge, but a machine that can produce nanometer-sized ...


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250 DVDs on a quarter: New method of self-assembling nanoscale elements could transform data storage industry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (35) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative and easily implemented technique in which nanoscale elements precisely assemble themselves over large surfaces could soon open doors to dramatic improvements in the data storage ...


'Impossible' Molecular Chain Reaction on Metal is Demonstrated

Chemistry /

created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 2

People said it couldn't be done, but researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh demonstrated a molecular chain reaction on a ...


Plasmonic Lithography Schematic

Denser computer chips possible with plasmonic lenses that 'fly'

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (31) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) - Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates modern ...


Northwestern chemists take gold, mass-produce Beijing Olympic logo

Northwestern chemists take gold, mass-produce Beijing Olympic logo

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 14, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times. All the logos take up only one square centimeter of space.


Scientists carve functional nanoribbons using super-heated, nano-sized particles of iron

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 31, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 2

Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon devices that incorporate the quantum effects that emerge at the nanoscale. Now, physicists ...


Nano-Sized Infrared Detector

Nano-sized electronic circuit promises bright view of early universe

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 3

A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted ...


New nanotech research to enhance future digital imaging

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A team of researchers from Northeastern’s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level.


Scientists show how some solids mimic liquids on nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 01, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A University of Waterloo physics and astronomy research team, in a paper to be published Friday in Science Magazine, shows how some solids behave like liquids on the nanoscale.


Thermochemical Nanolithography

Drawing nanoscale features the fast and easy way

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 10, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 0

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) ...