News tagged with nanometrology

15 Moore's Years: 3D chip stacking will take Moore's Law past 2020

Some laws are made to be broken, and others are made to be followed. A team of IBM Researchers in collaboration with two Swiss partners are looking to keep one law in particular alive and well for another 15 years: Moore's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (17) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Nanotechnologists form near-frictionless diamond material

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research-Zürich have fabricated an ultra sharp, diamond-like carbon tip possessing such high strength that it is 3,000 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast




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Nanomaterials: Pillars of the assembly

The ever-increasing demand for enhanced performance in electronic devices such as solar cells, sensors and batteries is matched by a need to find ways to make smaller electrical components. Several techniques ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

NIST polishes method for creating tiny diamond machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamonds may be best known as a symbol of long-lasting love. But semiconductor makers are also hoping they'll pan out as key components of long-lasting micromachines if a new method developed ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Coming soon: Manufacturing with every atom in its proper place

The long-held dream of creating atomically precise three-dimensional structures in a manufacturing environment is approaching reality, according to the top scientist at a company making tools aimed at that ambitious goal.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Correcting a trick of the light brings molecules into view

Conventional wisdom holds that optical microscopy can't be used to "see" something as small as an individual molecule. But as it is wont, clever science has once again overturned conventional wisdom. Secretary ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Watch amazing footage of how nanotubes form

A team of scientists led by the Department's Dr Stephan Hofmann have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 09, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Nanotube formation captured on video

A Cambridge University-led team of scientists have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 02, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 0

Growing Glowing Nanowires to Light Up the Nanoworld

The nano world is getting brighter. Nanowires made of semiconductor materials are being used to make prototype lasers and light-emitting diodes with emission apertures roughly 100 nm in diameter—about 50 times ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 25, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Nanotubes as measuring tips

Engineers at Purdue University have shown how researchers might better use tiny hollow fibers called "multi-walled carbon nanotubes" to more precisely measure structures and devices for electronics and other ...

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created Oct 12, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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