Hiroshi Takashima and coworkers of the Superconducting Devices Group of the Nanoelectronics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed red electroluminescent devices using thin-films of chemically stable perovskite oxides.
Posted: Jul 15th, 2009
Read moreA portable "lab on a chip" that can identify target molecules in blood samples has been created by European researchers. It is being used to measure fertility hormones and detect the genes associated with certain types of cancer.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreU.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman has announced that the UNM Nanoscience and Microsystems (NSMS) Graduate Program has been awarded the highly competitive grant to provide fellowships for Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN).
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreIt's back! The American Chemical Society (ACS) Web community site for nanoscience and nanotechnology researchers and enthusiasts - ACS Nanotation - has launched a second installment of the NanoTube video contest that became an Internet sensation a few months ago.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
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Scientists developed a ready-to-use, cost-reducing technology that can capture sunlight and store it as energy to power Global Positioning System components, portable communications, and other devices for U.S. soldiers.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
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Dye-sensitized solar cells are expected to power Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the future because they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without refueling.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreThe Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) is seeking nominations for the 2010 Class of Fellows. Fellows membership is limited to a select few and is presented in recognition of contributions to the social, technological and educational aspects of the manufacturing profession.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreThe RUSNANO Supervisory Council approved the Corporation?s participation in the project aimed at setting up national production of 90-nm topology very large scale integrated circuits.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
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IMEC today announces the launch of a new industrial affiliation program (IIAP) that will focus on the development of GaN technology for both power conversion and solid state lighting applications. An important goal of the program is to lower GaN technology cost by using large-diameter GaN-on-Si and hence by leveraging on the Si scale of economics.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreAnthrax, long feared for its potential as a biological weapon, has lost some of its mystery. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Chicago, have determined the structure of a protein crucial to the virulence of anthrax bacteria.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
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IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate first process and a step forward towards fabricating aggressively scaled germanium-pFET transistors.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreJ.C. Seamus Davis and John Tranquada, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, along with Aharon Kapitulnik of Stanford University, have been named the recipients of the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for outstanding superconductivity experiments.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
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IMEC presents innovations in dielectrics and metallization technologies as well as in their integration approaches. Great progress has been obtained in the metallization of 22nm interconnects, in Cu/low-k reliability assessment and in the suppression of low-k integration damage. The results contribute to deliver the interconnect performance and reliability beyond the 32nm node.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreIMEC today announced that it has established new partnerships with solar cell material and equipment suppliers. These companies, including MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., Leybold Optics Dresden GmbH, Roth & Rau AG, and Mallinckrodt Baker B.V., have concluded joint-development agreements with IMEC in the frame of IMEC?s newly launched wafer-based silicon photovoltaics industrial affiliation program.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
Read moreIMEC today announced that it is extending its EUV (extreme ultra-violet) lithography research program with a parallel dedicated EUV mask cleaning research program. The program will build on a new collaboration between IMEC and HamaTech APE GmbH.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
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Forscher des Geschäftsbereichs Visual Computing von Fraunhofer Austria in Graz haben in einem Projekt der DFG die Software BioBrowser entwickelt. Sie errechnet voll-automatisch aus den Forschungsdaten der Molekularbiologen die 3D-Modelle von kompliziert aufgebauten Proteinen und stellt sie auf Knopfdruck hochqualitativ und interaktiv dar.
Posted: Jul 14th, 2009
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