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Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding—the ...


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 ...





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It's raining pentagons

It's raining pentagons

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice ch ...


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 ...


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 ...


Nanoscale origami from DNA

Nanoscale origami from DNA

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes. ...


Penn study: Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale ...


Scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures

Scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional ...


Argonne's Hard X-ray Nanoprobe provides new capability to study nanoscale materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

[B]Novel microscopy tool provides highest resolution for hard x-rays[/B] The Center for Nanoscale Materials' (CNM) newly operational Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is ...


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.


Alpha-Helical protein filaments

Simplicity is crucial to design optimization at nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

MIT researchers who study the structure of protein-based materials with the aim of learning the key to their lightweight and robust strength have discovered that the particular arrangement of proteins that ...


Nano Structures Can Pose Big Measurement Problems

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 27, 2007 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Materials scientists will tell you that to best understand, characterize and eventually utilize the properties of a specific material, you have to be able to define how the atoms within it are arranged. In the case of common ...



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