 Automation of Nanotech Manufacturing May Be Ahead August 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features ... | |
 New paper reveals nanoscale details of photolithography process December 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of thin polymer films used in the manufacture of advanced ... | |
 Penn engineers create carbon nanopipettes that are smaller than cells and measure electric current January 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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University of Pennsylvania engineers and physicians have developed a carbon nanopipette thousands of times thinner than a human hair that measures electric current and delivers fluids into cells. Researchers ... | |
Magnetic atoms of gold, silver and copper have been obtained February 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and directed by Professor Jose Javier Saiz Garitaonandia, has achieved, ... | |
 'Nanoglassblowing' Seen as Boon to Study of Individual Molecules June 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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While the results may not rival the artistry of glassblowers in Europe and Latin America, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have found beauty in a new ... | |
Plastic solar cell efficiency breaks record April 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 116 vote(s)
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The global search for a sustainable energy supply is making significant strides at Wake Forest University as researchers at the university’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have announced that they have ... | |
 Nanotube adhesive sticks better than a gecko's foot June 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of ... | |
Molecules line up to make the tiniest of wires August 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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As technology shrinks, the computer industry is facing the complex challenge of finding ways to manufacture the minuscule components necessary. | |
Ideally Ordered Nanohole Patterned Media Enables Capacity Potential to 1.2TB for 2.5'' HDD August 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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Fujitsu today announced the results of a joint collaboration by Yamagata Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, and Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology to create ideally “ordered” alumina nanohole patterned ... | |
 Placing single nanowires: NIST makes the connection April 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have devised a system for manipulating and precisely positioning individual nanowires on semiconductor wafers. Their technique, described in ... | |
Indium arsenide may provide clues to quantum information processing July 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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“We’re not saying we’ve built a quantum computer,” Andreas Fuhrer tells PhysOrg.com, “but this is an important first step towards spin manipulation via the spin-orbit interaction.” | |
 Graphene Takes the Heat February 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 101 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes are being touted by many scientists and engineers as the material of the future, with the potential to revolutionize electronic technologies. But a new study shows that nanotubes may not be ... | |
Nanoscale computer memory retrieves data 1,000 times faster September 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 95 vote(s)
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Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash ... | |
Physicists create first superconductor hybrid nanoscale heat transistor July 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Low temperature research has been at the forefront of cooling applications for quite some time. One project, a nanoscale heat transistor, has been built in Finland in cooperation with an Italian researcher at the Helsinki ... | |
 Why nanowires make great photodetectors April 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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The geometry of semiconducting nanowires makes them uniquely suited for light detection, according to a new UC San Diego study that highlights the possibility of nanowire light detectors with single-photon ... | |
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