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Oxford Instruments Install Superconducting Magnet at UK's Synchotron Facility

Oxford Instruments Install Superconducting Magnet at UK's Synchotron Facility

Oxford Instruments has recently installed a state-of-the-art 14 Tesla superconducting magnet system for ultra-high-vacuum experiments at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility. [More]
element14 Expands Range of Fairchild’s Logic ICs and MOSFETs

element14 Expands Range of Fairchild’s Logic ICs and MOSFETs

element14 has declared that the range of Fairchild Semiconductor logic ICs and metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has been increased by 20% and 50%, respectively. The company’s overall range of Fairchild products has been increased to more than 2,500, through this expansion. [More]
Scientists Create New Metamaterial Using Silver, Titanium Oxide and Quantum Dots

Scientists Create New Metamaterial Using Silver, Titanium Oxide and Quantum Dots

A multi-institute research team has developed a novel nanostructured metamaterial that can transmit light more efficiently, taking one step closer to the realization of novel optical technologies. [More]
Researchers Overcome Key Barrier in Commercializing Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Researchers Overcome Key Barrier in Commercializing Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Purdue University researchers have discovered a way to synthesize metamaterials without using conventional gold or silver, which are expensive and incompatible with semiconductor production processes. [More]
Researchers Use Formic Acid to Increase Fluorescent Efficiency of Quantum Dots

Researchers Use Formic Acid to Increase Fluorescent Efficiency of Quantum Dots

A research team led by Sandra Rosenthal from the Vanderbilt University has discovered a way to improve white-light quantum dots’ fluorescent efficiency up to 45%, a more than 10-fold increase from an initial level of 3%. [More]
Scientists Develop Low-Power All-Optical Switch Using Quantum Dots

Scientists Develop Low-Power All-Optical Switch Using Quantum Dots

At the Joint Quantum Institute, a research team, comprising Edo Waks and colleagues, has developed an all-optical switch utilizing a quantum dot integrated within a tiny hole-free arcade, which behaves like a resonant cavity. [More]
ARC Energy’s Furnaces for LED Grade Sapphire Wafer Production

ARC Energy’s Furnaces for LED Grade Sapphire Wafer Production

Trinity Material,a company specializing in research, production and distribution of LED grade sapphire substrate materials, has qualified controlled heat extraction system (CHES) furnacesof ARC Energy, headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, to manufacture high quality LED chips at two major companies. [More]
Researchers Use Colloidal Nanocrystals to Produce Different Color Lasers

Researchers Use Colloidal Nanocrystals to Produce Different Color Lasers

A team led by Brown University researchers has developed an innovative prototype technology that can produce red, green and blue lasers from nanometer-sized semiconductor particles, paving the way to develop products, including high-performance digital displays that can use different laser colors simultaneously. [More]
Inpria, SEMATECH Partner to Accelerate EUV Lithography Material Development

Inpria, SEMATECH Partner to Accelerate EUV Lithography Material Development

Global consortium of chip manufacturers, SEMATECH has reported that Inpria, a specialist in chemical materials for superior performance oxide thin film deposition, has become a member of SEMATECH's Resist Materials and Development Center (RMDC) at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE). [More]
Researchers Explore Light-Metamaterial Interactions

Researchers Explore Light-Metamaterial Interactions

The advancement in information technology is based on the ability to manipulate electron flow utilizing engineering materials. However, most properties of matter are not yet clearly defined. Now, Zubin Jacob, an electrical engineering researcher at the University of Alberta, is working on understanding certain unusual electronic properties of matter utilizing optical analogues. [More]
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