Advances in miniaturisation have led to the increasing adoption of microsystems in a wide array of applications. Continued miniaturisation, however, impacts the assembly of the components, the integration of passive components and overall system performance. To address these challenges, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding a research collaboration between the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and University of Washington's Department of Electrical Engineering.
Dec 23rd, 2010
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Researchers describe the self-sharpening mechanism used by the California purple sea urchin to keep a razor-sharp edge on its choppers.
Dec 23rd, 2010
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Research from MIT and GE demonstrates that a proposed passive solution for preventing ice on wings won't work - but suggests an alternative.
Dec 22nd, 2010
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Stanford University in the USA has an X-FEL (X-ray Free Electron Laser) with a pricetag of hundreds of millions. It provides images of 'molecules in action', using a kilometer-long electron accelerator. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have developed an alternative that can do many of the same things. However this alternative fits on a tabletop, and costs around half a million euro.
Dec 22nd, 2010
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On January 1, 2011, the European project AtMol will be officially launched for 4 years. AtMol is to open the atomic scale era of molecular computing integrating state of the art atomic scale technologies, new quantum architectures with multi-scale interconnection and packaging techniques for a single molecule to compute and be packaged into a molecular chip.
Dec 22nd, 2010
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Trinitramid - that's the name of the new molecule that may be a component in future rocket fuel. This fuel could be 20-30 percent more efficient in comparison with the best rocket fuels we have today.
Dec 22nd, 2010
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Direct proof of the hitherto controversial Efimov effect.
Dec 22nd, 2010
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Porous structures made from a copolymer of polyhydroxybutyrate and polyethylene glycol are ideal scaffolds for bone regeneration.
Dec 22nd, 2010
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An advanced channel model may help push the capacity limits of future magnetic recording media.
Dec 22nd, 2010
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Call for applications for PhD positions at the International Doctorate Program NanoBioTechnology.
Dec 21st, 2010
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Researchers from the Quantum Photonics Group at DTU Fotonik in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen surprise the scientific world with the discovery that light emission from solid-state photon emitters, the so-called quantum dots, is fundamentally different than hitherto believed.
Dec 21st, 2010
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In der Schweiz hat das Staatssekretariat fuer Wirtschaft SECO einen Leitfaden erarbeitet fuer das Erstellen von Sicherheitsdatenblaettern fuer Chemikalien, welche aus Nanomaterialien bestehen oder solche enthalten.
Dec 21st, 2010
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Just as walkie-talkies transmit and receive radio waves, carbon nanotubes can transmit and receive light at the nanoscale, Cornell researchers have discovered.
Dec 21st, 2010
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The EU project 'Development of novel nanotechnology based diagnostic systems for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis' (NanoDiaRA) held its first seminar on 'Science meets Society'.
Dec 21st, 2010
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A research team in Japan succeeded in controlling the few-particle quantum state of a semiconductor quantum dot, and changing its correlation energies. This research achievement will make it possible to develop semiconductor non-linear devices which enable stable drive with low power consumption.
Dec 21st, 2010
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Los Alamos achievements in bioscience, photo imaging, metallurgy, astrophysics and more.
Dec 21st, 2010
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