News tagged with nanoscale electronics


Bilayer graphene gets a bandgap

Bilayer graphene gets a bandgap

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, whose extraordinary electron mobility and other unique features hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics. But there's a catch: ...





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IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs

IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

IMEC reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that ...


Researchers Develop Revolutionary Technology for Nanoscale Assembly at Wafer Level

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Researchers at the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern University, with partners UMass Lowell and University of New Hampshire, have discovered an innovative technology ...


Running electronics using light

Running electronics using light

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functi ...


Chemists Devise Devises Self Assembling 'Organic Wire'

Chemistry /

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed ...


New material for nanoscale computer chips

New material for nanoscale computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen have developed nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires. ...


Under pressure at the nanoscale, polymers play by different rules

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Scientists putting the squeeze on thin films of polystyrene have discovered that at very short length scales the polymer doesn't play by the rules.


Flexible electronics could find applications as sensors, artificial muscles

Flexible electronics could find applications as sensors, artificial muscles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 02, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Flexible electronic structures with the potential to bend, expand and manipulate electronic devices are being developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the ...


3D nanotube assembly technique for nanoscale electronics

3D nanotube assembly technique for nanoscale electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (41) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the past several years, researchers have been trying to take advantage of carbon nanotubes’ good electrical properties for future nanoscale electronics applications. One of the biggest ...


Breakthrough may ease electronics assembly

Breakthrough may ease electronics assembly

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Northeastern have demonstrated a way to use single-walled carbon nanotubes, at left, to ease large-scale manufacture of flat-panel displays and electronic memory devices.


Scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics (w/ Video)

Scientists manipulate ripples in graphene, enabling strain-based graphene electronics (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is nature's thinnest elastic material and displays exceptional mechanical and electronic properties. Its one-atom thickness, planar geometry, high current-carrying capacity and thermal ...



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