Carbon Nanotubes heralded as ideal candidates for next generation Nanoelectronics(PhysOrg.com) -- Widely regarded as the wonder material of the 21st century, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the intramolecular junctions that connect CNTs for integration have been hailed as the ideal candidates for the next ... |
Chasing rainbowsEngineers working in optical communications bear more than a passing resemblance to dreamers chasing rainbows. They may not wish literally to capture all the colors of the spectrum, but they do seek to control the rate at ... |
![]() IMEC, AIXTRON set important step towards low-cost GaN power devicesIMEC, Europe's leading independent research center in the field of nanoelectronics, and AIXTRON, the world leader in metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment, have demonstrated the growth ... |
![]() Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor'HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. |
![]() 'Sticky nanotubes' hold key to future technologiesResearchers at Purdue University are the first to precisely measure the forces required to peel tiny nanotubes off of other materials, opening up the possibility of creating standards for nano-manufacturing ... |
Are nanobots on their way?[The first real steps towards building a microscopic device that can construct nano machines have been taken by US researchers. Writing in the peer-reviewed publication, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from ... |
![]() Graphene used to create world's smallest transistorResearchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. |
![]() Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of NanocomputersMulti-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ... |
Nano-Softball Made of DNAFor quite some time, DNA, the stuff our genes are made of, has also been considered the building material of choice for nanoscale objects. A team led by Günter von Kiedrowski at the Ruhr University in Bochum has now made ... |
Ultrafast electron microscopy reveals switchable nanochannels in materialsMicroscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close—on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises”, as they report ... |
SEMATECH Achieves Single Digit EUV Mask Blank Defect GoalTechnologists at SEMATECH have successfully demonstrated world-class results in low defect density for mask blanks used in extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL)—pushing the technology another significant step toward readiness ... |
Scientists Make 'Perfect' NanowiresScientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ... |
![]() Copper's not coping: new chips call on light speedThe tiny copper wires that connect different areas of an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. So European researchers have developed technologies to produce and combine semiconductor ... |