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Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, ...


Micro Sparky: Engineering the tiniest Sun Devil

Micro Sparky: Engineering the tiniest Sun Devil

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Arizona State University engineering student may have found the tiniest - yet most cleverly inventive - way to show school spirit.


Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...


The Shrinky Dink solution

The Shrinky Dink solution

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Toys don't usually inspire high-tech innovation, but Michelle Khine's childhood favorite did just that.


Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards

Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(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 ...


New interferometer could simplify materials research

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Most current hard x-ray interferometers are based on crystals, which require their high quality and high mechanical stability,” Anatoly Snigirev tells PhysOrg.com. “This can make x-ray interferometry quite ...


Intel X25-M SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD)

Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will ...


Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego scientists are using laser plasma-produced light sources to explore performance improvements of critical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, which ultimately will ...


Lessons from Schon -- the worst physics fraudster?

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 5

How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional ...


At the limits of the photoelectric effect

Shaking the Fundamentals of Physics: At the Limits of the Photoelectric Effect

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 9

With extremely short wavelengths and very high intensities, light-matter interaction seems to be different than previously accepted.


New Laser Technique Advances Nanofabrication Process

New Laser Technique Advances Nanofabrication Process

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to create tiny patterns is essential to the fabrication of computer chips and many other current and potential applications of nanotechnology. Yet, creating ever smaller features, ...


Fabricating 3D Photonic Crystals

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- “In photonic crystals, the ability to control the structure of a material in full three dimensional space, allows you to control the way that light flows through it,” John Rogers tells PhysOrg.com. “This ...


Toshiba develops cost-effective 32nm CMOS platform technology by advanced single exposure lithography

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Toshiba Corporation today announced a cost-effective 32nm CMOS platform technology that offers higher density and improved performance while halving the cost per function from 45nm technology.


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.