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Researchers demonstrate a flexible, 1-step assembly of nanoscale structures

Jul 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a one-step, repeatable method for the production of functional nanoscale patterns or motifs with adjustable features, size and shape using a single master "plate."


IMEC reports major progress in EUV

Jul 14, 2008 | pda version

IMEC reports functional 0.186µm2 32nm SRAM cells made with FinFETs from which the contact layer was successfully printed using ASML’s full field extreme ultraviolet (EUV) Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). Applied Materials, ...


Researchers Create Enhanced Light Sources For Lithography

Jul 09, 2008 | User rating: 1.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | pda version

A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices. So far, the semiconductor ...


Researchers report finer lines for microchips: Advance could lead to next-generation computer chips, solar cells

Jul 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 46 vote(s) | pda version

MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger ...


New logic: the attraction of magnetic computation

Jul 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s) | pda version

European researchers are the first to demonstrate functional components that exploit the magnetic properties of electrons to perform logic operations. Compatible with existing microtechnology, the new approach ...


Engineers show nanotube circuits can be made en masse

Jul 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | pda version

Most innovations don't go far unless there is a way to turn them into products that are manufacturable on a mass scale. That's why new research on carbon nanotubes, presented June 19 by a group of Stanford electrical engineers, ...


Exposing the Sensitivity of Extreme Ultraviolet Photoresists

Jun 26, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have confirmed that the photoresists used in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing processes now under development are twice as ...


Physicists Store Images in Vapor

Jun 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 92 vote(s) | pda version

Books are written on solid pieces of paper for an obvious reason: the atoms in a solid don’t move around much, keeping the words and pictures in place for centuries. Trying to store letters and images in a ...


NIST/NIH micromagnets show promise as colorful 'smart tags' for magnetic resonance imaging

Jun 18, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Colo.-Customized microscopic magnets that might one day be injected into the body could add color to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), while also potentially enhancing sensitivity and the amount of information ...


Trap and zap: Harnessing the power of light to pattern surfaces on the nanoscale

Jun 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s) | pda version

Princeton engineers have invented an affordable technique that uses lasers and plastic beads to create the ultrasmall features that are needed for new generations of microchips.


Researchers develop better X-ray nanomirrors

Jun 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | pda version

A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.


Mass-Producing Tunable Magnetic Nanoparticles

May 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | pda version

Taking a cue from the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at Stanford University has developed a method of producing unlimited quantities of highly magnetic nanoparticles suitable for use as magnetic resonance ...


Toy-Like Microboat Could Carry Tiny Cargoes

May 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 46 vote(s) | pda version

As a child, Cheng Luo, an engineer from the University of Texas at Arlington, recalls playing with wooden toy boats that were propelled forward when a drop of oil was placed on the back of the boats. When ...


Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 24 vote(s) | pda version

Carbon nanotubes’ potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers ...


Melting defects could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips

May 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | pda version

As microchips shrink, even tiny defects in the lines, dots and other shapes etched on them become major barriers to performance. Princeton engineers have now found a way to literally melt away such defects, ...


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