News tagged with nanoscale device
Researchers develop nanodevice manufacturing strategy using DNA 'building blocks'
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a method for building complex nanostructures out of short synthetic strands of DNA. Called single-stranded ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 30, 2012 |
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Frequency stabilization in nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators
Using Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) expertise in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices, a new strategy for engineering low-frequency noise oscillators capitalizes on the intrinsic ...
May 28, 2012 |
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Researchers prove new circuit pattern-design process, see promise for 14 nanometer design with directed self-assembly
(Phys.org) -- Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced that they have successfully created contact hole patterns for a wide variety of practical logic and memory devices ...
May 24, 2012 |
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Novel plasmonic material may merge photonic and electronic technologies
Helping bridge the gap between photonics and electronics, researchers from Purdue University have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride into transporting plasmons, tiny electron excitations coupled to light ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Researchers publish a detailed review of electrical contacts in one and two dimensional nanomaterials
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Sandia National Laboratories have published a detailed review of recent experimental and theoretical work highlighting the unusual ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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Applying math to design new materials and processes for drug manufacturing
Trial-and-error experimentation underlies many biomedical innovations. This classic method -- define a problem, test a proposed solution, learn from failure and try again -- is the main route by which scientists ...
Feb 15, 2012 |
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DNA motor programmed to navigate a network of tracks
Expanding on previous work with engines traveling on straight tracks, a team of researchers at Kyoto University and the University of Oxford have successfully used DNA building blocks to construct a motor ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 22, 2012 |
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Peering into the interfaces of nanoscale polymeric materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of polymer nanostructures and nanoscale devices for a wide variety of applications could emerge from new information about the interplay between nanoscale interfaces in polymeric ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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A new spin in diamonds for quantum technologies
(PhysOrg.com) -- To explore the future potential of diamonds in quantum devices, researchers from Macquarie University have collaborated with the University of Stuttgart and University of Ulm in Germany towards ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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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
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Building chips from collapsing nanopillars
By turning a common problem in chip manufacture into an advantage, MIT researchers produce structures only 30 atoms wide.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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One-pot synthesis provides simpler, faster route to highly efficient solar cells
Preventing the recombination of free charges produced when light strikes a solar cell is one of the main goal of engineers attempting to extract the maximum energy conversion efficiency from their devices. One way to achieve ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Electrochemical strain microscopy generates new view of fuel cells
A novel microscopy method at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping scientists probe the reactions that limit widespread deployment of fuel cell technologies.
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Like superman's X-Ray vision, new microscope reveals nanoscale details
Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new kind of X-ray microscope that can penetrate deep within materials like Superman's fabled X-ray vision and see minute details at the scale of a single nanometer, or one billionth ...
Aug 08, 2011 |
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Nanoplasmonic 'whispering gallery' breaks emission time record in semiconductors
Renaissance architects demonstrated their understanding of geometry and physics when they built whispering galleries into their cathedrals. These circular chambers were designed to amplify and direct sound ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 22, 2011 |
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