News tagged with fabrication processes

Ultrafast sonograms shed new light on rapid phase transitions

An international team of physicists has developed a method for taking ultrafast 'sonograms' that can track the structural changes that take place within solid materials in trillionth-of-a-second intervals ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Designer optoelectronics - quantum mechanics for new materials

European researchers have combined computer modelling of quantum mechanics and precision fabrication processes to create novel transparent conductive oxides made to order for a wide range of scientific and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop revolutionary technology for manufacturing micro-scale devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cranfield University has developed new technology that could significantly reduce the manufacturing costs of complex devices such as electronic noses that sniff out explosives and dangerous chemicals and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Breaking Down the Barrier for Smaller, Faster Electronic Devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of international researchers is the first to uncover the chemical composition and structure of a microelectronics element that is vital to producing ever smaller - and, thus, cheaper ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

New Sulfur- and Coking-Tolerant Material Could Expand Applications for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ceramic material described in this week's issue of the journal Science could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells - devices that generate electricity directly from a ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Fabricating 3D Photonic Crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- “In photonic crystals, the ability to control the structure of a material in full three dimensional space, allows you to control the way that light flows through it,” John Rogers tells PhysOrg.com. “This ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 feature