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Research team develops method to produce large sheets of metamaterials

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an announcement many have been waiting for, a research team from the University of Illinois, has succeeded in figuring out how to produce metamaterials in a size big enough to be useful. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Researchers create freestanding nanoparticle films without fillers

Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don't disintegrate at the slightest touch.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Understanding properties of polyelectrolytes gives control over responsive polymer microstructures

Polymer films that undergo nanoscale structural transformations in response to external stimuli are key components of devices like biosensors and artificial membranes. One of the best materials for manufacturing ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The fine art of etching

(PhysOrg.com) -- They see more than the naked eye and could make traffic safer: miniaturized thermal imaging sensors. But they are difficult to manufacture on a commercial scale. Researchers have now developed ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

World’s first diamond nanoelectromechanical switch

Japanese researchers have succeeded in the batch fabrication of suspended structures (cantilevers and bridges) of single crystal diamond for nano/micro electromechanical systems.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Panasonic, Imec present new thin film packaged MEMS resonator

Panasonic and imec present at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco an innovative SiGe (silicon germanium) thin film packaged SOI-based MEMS resonator featuring an industry-record Q factor ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ultrathin alternative to silicon for future electronics

There's good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mayan king's tomb discovered in Guatemala

A well-preserved tomb of an ancient Mayan king has been discovered in Guatemala by a team of archaeologists led by Brown University's Stephen Houston. The tomb is packed with of carvings, ceramics, textiles, and the bones ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Researchers report breakthrough in narrow pitch interconnects

Imec researchers set major step towards 20nm half pitch interconnects with the realization of electrically functional copper lines embedded into silicon oxide using a spacer-defined double patterning approach. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Ultrathin light-emitting diodes create new classes of lighting and display systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes

Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 1

Centuries-old Maya Blue mystery finally solved

Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery, murals and other contexts ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 26, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (36) | comments 1


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