The institute acquired an automatic TEL wafer prober in order to meet the requirements of latest measuring tasks related to capacity, quality and positioning accuracy within a large temperature range. Moreover future wafer test and characterization requirements will be developed and verified by means of an additional system.
Nov 3rd, 2011
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An EU-funded project investigates 11-nm FinFET variability and its impact on embedded memories.
Nov 3rd, 2011
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Imec and its project partners announce the launch of IMOLA (Intelligent light Management for OLED on foil Applications), a project under the EU's 7th framework program for ICT (FP7).
Nov 3rd, 2011
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A discovery by physicists at UC Santa Barbara may earn silicon carbide - a semiconductor commonly used by the electronics industry - a role at the center of a new generation of information technologies designed to exploit quantum physics for tasks such as ultrafast computing and nanoscale sensing.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been awarded $4.5 million over four years by the U.S. Department of Defense to strengthen carbon nanotube yarns and sheets, materials that hold great promise for advancing satellite technology.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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During IDTechEx's Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics USA conference and tradeshow in Santa Clara this November 30 - December 1, attendees will have the opportunity to tour the facilities of Applied Materials.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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Uli Wiesner's research group at Cornell offers a method they have pioneered in other fields, using block copolymers to self-assemble 3-D structures with nanoscale features.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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New laser technique could be used for production of tissue scaffolds, microneedles.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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Solar power may be on the rise, but solar cells are only as efficient as the amount of sunlight they collect. Under the direction of a new McCormick professor, researchers have developed a new material that absorbs a wide range of wavelengths and could lead to more efficient and less expensive solar technology.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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Queensland University of Technology researchers have developed new technology capable of removing radioactive material from contaminated water and aiding clean-up efforts following nuclear disasters.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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Eight projects from 11 countries were chosen to be funded as part of the 3rd and last call.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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Writing in a recent issue of Small, Professor Ned Thomas, Dean of Engineering at Rice University, proposes the setup of a database of functional nanostructures.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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Phaedon Avouris, manager of the Nanometer Scale Science and Technology division at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., will present new experimental results on the use of graphene in fast electronics and photonics at the AVS meeting in Nashville, Tenn., held Oct. 30 - Nov. 4.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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From concrete to cancer cells, Van Vliet brings an engineer's mindset to the study of biology and materials.
Nov 2nd, 2011
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A nanometer-thin layer of pure gold now lends ties and pocket handkerchiefs that authentic gold sheen, thanks to a new Empa-developed process.
Nov 1st, 2011
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The University of Leicester has been allocated GBP1.07 million towards a GBP5.6 million hi-tech project supporting and impacting advanced engineering and manufacturing automotive, aerospace and space industry sectors.
Nov 1st, 2011
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