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Graphene on boron nitride work may lead to breakthrough in microchip technology

(Phys.org) -- Graphene is the wonder material that could solve the problem of making ever faster computers and smaller mobile devices when current silicon microchip technology hits an inevitable wall. Graphene, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers prove new circuit pattern-design process, see promise for 14 nanometer design with directed self-assembly

(Phys.org) -- Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced that they have successfully created contact hole patterns for a wide variety of practical logic and memory devices ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Performance boost for microchips

The semiconductor industry is faced with the challenge of supplying ever faster and more powerful chips. The Next-Generation Lithography with EUV radiation will help meeting that challenge. Fraunhofer researchers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers unlock mystery of how 'handedness' arises

The overwhelming majority of proteins and other functional molecules in our bodies display a striking molecular characteristic: They can exist in two distinct forms that are mirror images of each other, like ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Research group creates highly sensitive photodetector from graphene and quantum dots

(Phys.org) -- Researchers in Spain have succeeded in building a photodetector that is a billion times more sensitive than other such detectors based on graphene and could herald the use of graphene based light ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

New ultra-thin electronic films have greater capacity

(Phys.org) -- The development of a new combination of polymers associating sugars with oil-based macromolecules makes it possible to design ultra-thin films capable of self-organization with a 5-nanometer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Portable diagnostics designed to be shaken, not stirred

As medical researchers and engineers try to shrink diagnostics to fit in a person's pocket, one question is how to easily move and mix small samples of liquid.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Metafluids: German researchers realize new material class

A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline metafluid, a pentamode ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Process makes polymers truly plastic

Just as a chameleon changes its color to blend in with its environment, Duke University engineers have demonstrated for the first time that they can alter the texture of plastics on demand, for example, switching ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

3D-printer with nano-precision

Printing three dimensional objects with incredibly fine details is now possible using "two-photon lithography". With this technology, tiny structures on a nanometer scale can be fabricated. Researchers at ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Metamaterials may advance with new femtosecond laser technique

Researchers in applied physics have cleared an important hurdle in the development of advanced materials, called metamaterials, that bend light in unusual ways.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Imec releases industry’s first 14nm process development kit

Imec today announces that it has released an early-version PDK (process development kit) for 14nm logic chips. This PDK is the industry’s first to address the 14nm technology node. It targets the introduction of a number ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Beyond Tupac -- the future of hologram technology

Last week the world watched on as a supposed hologram of the late rapper Tupac Shakur performed at the Coachella music festival in California.

Technology / Other

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Creating nanostructures from the bottom up

Microscopic particles are being coaxed by Duke University engineers to assemble themselves into larger crystalline structures by the use of varying concentrations of microscopic particles and magnetic fields.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers present a shiny new tool for imaging biomolecules

At the heart of the immune system that protects our bodies from disease and foreign invaders is a vast and complex communications network involving millions of cells, sending and receiving chemical signals ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast