News tagged with electron beam lithography

Scientists carve nanowires out of ultrananocrystalline diamond thin films

A team of scientists working at Argonne National Laboratory's (ANL) Center for Nanoscale Materials has successfully carved ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) thin films into nanowires, boosting the material's functionality ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanowire lens can reconfigure its imaging properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the unique optical properties of nanoscale materials, researchers have designed a lens made of nanowires that can reconfigure its imaging properties without any electronic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Engineers create vibrant colors in vertical silicon nanowires

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers may soon be singing, "I'm going to wash that gray right out of my nanowires," thanks to a colorful discovery by a team of researchers from Harvard University and Zena Technologies. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Single quantum dot nanowire photodetectors

Moving a step closer toward quantum computing, a research team in the Netherlands recently fabricated a photodetector based on a single nanowire, in which the active element is a single quantum dot with a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Engineer shrinks 'U' logo

In an example of how a technology wonk displays school spirit, an engineer has created a golden University of Utah logo that is smaller than the width of an average human hair.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

15,000 beams of light: Pens that write with light offer low-cost, rapid nanofabrication capabilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- One Chicago skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

By 'putting a ring on it,' microparticles can be captured

To trap and hold tiny microparticles, engineers at Harvard have "put a ring on it," using a silicon-based circular resonator to confine particles stably for up to several minutes.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

IBM demonstrates nonoscale 3D patterning technique (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research in Zurich has demonstrated a new nanoscale patterning technique that could replace electron beam lithography (EBL). The demonstration carved a 1:5 billion scale three-dimensional ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Micro Sparky: Engineering the tiniest Sun Devil

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Arizona State University engineering student may have found the tiniest - yet most cleverly inventive - way to show school spirit.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New interferometer could simplify materials research

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Most current hard x-ray interferometers are based on crystals, which require their high quality and high mechanical stability,” Anatoly Snigirev tells PhysOrg.com. “This can make x-ray interferometry quite ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 1 feature