News tagged with silicon atom

European researchers make breakthrough in developing super-material graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 3

New nanocrystalline diamond probes overcome wear

Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers invent new method for graphene growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Physicists discover novel electronic properties in two-dimensional carbon structure

Rutgers researchers have discovered novel electronic properties in two-dimensional sheets of carbon atoms called graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Nano-ruler sets some very small marks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available "meter ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other

It is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both excentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and besides, very young.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

IBM Scientists Effectively Eliminate Wear at the Nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists have demonstrated a promising and practical method that effectively eliminates the mechanical wear in the nanometer-sharp tips used in scanning probe-based techniques. This discovery can potentially ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 8

Researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles

Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles and may ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Aluminum-oxide nanopore beats other materials for DNA analysis

Fast and affordable genome sequencing has moved a step closer with a new solid-state nanopore sensor being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1983, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine that could create smaller scale replicas of itself. Today, such a system is still a challenge, but a machine that can produce nanometer-sized ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8 feature

Scientists create large-area graphene on copper: Faster computers, electronics possible

The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Scientists Measure Differences Between Normal and Cancer Cell Surfaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that cancerous cells and normal cells have different physical features, but the details of these differences, and why they occur, are not well understood. In a recent edition ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0 weblog

Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1