News tagged with microchip fabrication

New nanoglue is thin and supersticky

Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have invented a superthin "nanoglue" that could be used in new-generation microchip fabrication.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Robotic perception, on purpose

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers developed technology that enables a robot to combine data from both sound and vision to create combined, purposeful perception. In the process, they have taken the field ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stimulating sight: New retinal implant developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at MIT are working on a retinal implant that could one day help blind people regain a ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 2




Search results for microchip fabrication


New vacuum calibration system: Better, faster, and cheaper

In the vacuum business, less is more—except when it comes to accuracy. Industries that depend on high-quality, carefully monitored vacuum for sensitive processes such as microchip fabrication, as well ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Plastic electronics: a neat solution

(Phys.org) -- A breakthrough in the development of a new generation of plastic electronic circuits by researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory brings flexible and transparent intelligent materials – such ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

How to corner the MEMS market

In the last decade, MEMS (microelectromechanical devices) have wrought revolutions in several industries: Arrays of micromirrors, for instance, enabled digital film projectors, and accelerometers like those ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Transistors promise more powerful logic, more logical power

Broadly speaking, the two major areas of research at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are electronics — transistors in particular — and microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop a new approach to producing 3-D microchips

Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are small devices with huge potential. Typically made of components less than 100 microns in size — the diameter of a human hair — they have been used as ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

In a new microchip, cells separate by rolling away

Cell rolling is a common mechanism cells use to navigate through the body. During inflammation, for example, the endothelial cells that line blood vessels present certain molecules that attract white blood ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microchips' optical future

Computer chips are one area where the United States still enjoys a significant manufacturing lead over the rest of the world. In 2011, five of the top 10 chipmakers by revenue were U.S. companies, and Intel, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Quantum microphone captures extremely weak sound

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Chalmers have demonstrated a new kind of detector for sound at the level of quietness of quantum mechanics. The result offers prospects of a new class of quantum hybrid circuits ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

UV lithography: Taking extreme measures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometime soon, microchip fabricators will take the next major step in the relentless reduction of feature size, from the current minimum of 22 nm down to 10 nm and perhaps even smaller. Getting ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Computing with light: Research produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips

There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips — devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their computational tasks. Now, researchers at ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


List of search results for microchip fabrication