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Sensor Detects Onset of Acute Myocardial Ischemia

Physics / Soft Matter

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have fabricated and tested a unique biosensor that measures concentrations of potassium and hydrogen ions in the human heart with high specificity. The ...





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Researchers create freestanding nanoparticle films without fillers

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don't disintegrate at the slightest touch.


Bottoms up: Better organic semiconductors for printable electronics

Bottoms up: Better organic semiconductors for printable electronics

Chemistry /

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Seoul National University have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment ...


Cracking a Tough Nut for the Semiconductor Industry

Cracking a Tough Nut for the Semiconductor Industry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a method to measure the toughness -- the resistance to fracture -- of the thin insulating films that play a ...


Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered ...


Insights into polymer film instability could aid high tech industries

Insights into polymer film instability could aid high tech industries

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While exploring the properties of polymer formation, a team of scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology has made a fundamental discovery* about these materials that could improve methods ...


NIST develops test method for key micromechanical property

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Engineers and researchers designing and building new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can benefit from a new test method developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to measure a key mechanical property ...


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.


Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Smooth Metal Films

Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Smooth Metal Films

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory's CNM Nanophotonics Group have measured how light emission from individual colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, is modified when in proximity to ...


NIST releases new standard for semiconductor industry

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 12, 2006 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A wide range of optical electronic devices, from laser disk players to traffic lights, may be improved in the future thanks to a small piece of semiconductor, about the size of a button, coated with aluminum, gallium, and ...


Gartner said in a statement that semiconductor revenue is on pace to fall 11.4 percent this year

Semiconductor revenue to fall 11 percent: Gartner

Technology / Business

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline by more than 11 percent in 2009 over last year, less than previously forecast, market research firm Gartner said Monday.



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