News tagged with laser anneal

IMEC shows optimizations for next-generation transistors

IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Nanodot-based memory sets new world speed record

Record speed, low-voltage, and ultra-small size make nanodots a "triple threat" for electronic memory in computers and other electronic devices.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Optical fiber innovation could make future optical computers a 'SNAP'

Optics and photonics may one day revolutionize computer technology with the promise of light-speed calculations. Storing light as memory, however, requires devices known as microresonators, an emerging technology ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tiny ring laser accurately detects and counts nanoparticles

(PhysOrg.com) -- A microlaser no bigger than a pinprick can accurately detect and count individual viruses, the particles that jumpstart cloud formation or those that contaminate the air we breathe.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

LLNL gamma ray spectrometer aboard spacecraft due to start orbiting around Mercury

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a NASA spacecraft goes into orbit around Mercury Thursday evening, a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will be paying close attention.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Modelling nano-worlds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Modelling the fabrication processes for integrated circuits can slash production development time and costs by up to 40%. But as transistors, already at nano-scales, become ever smaller, researchers are modelling ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Low Temperature Laser Processing Solves a Problem in Smart Materials Manufacturing

(PhysOrg.com) -- If researchers could integrate some of the active materials, such as perovskites, that have been developed in recent years for microsensor, actuator, and transducer applications directly onto ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IMEC increases performance of high-k metal gate planar CMOS and FinFETs

At today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports significant progress in improving the performance of planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-carbide metal gates ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers find a crucial difficulty in semiconductor device scaling

In 1959, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman presented a talk entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." Feynman concluded that there was no physical reason why humans couldn't manipulate atoms. However, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 06, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 0

IMEC demonstrates viability of laser anneal for the 32nm node

At today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports that laser anneal is a promising option for further transistor scaling to the 32nm node. By device demonstration, IMEC shows that laser anneal allows to ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Nanoparticles self-assemble through chemical lithography

Nanoparticles – while possessing some amazing properties of strength and power – are also delicate little things, when it comes to manipulating them for use in nanodevices. Many scientists consider that the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 20, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (43) | comments 0 feature


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