Researchers at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method to
measure the toughness—the resistance to fracture—of the thin insulating
films that play a critical role in high-performance integrated circuits. The
new technique could help improve the reliability and manufacturability of ICs
and, better yet, it’s one that state-of-the-art microelectronics manufacturers
can use with equipment they already own.
FEI’s
new Magellan™ extreme high-resolution scanning electron microscope (XHR
SEM) allows scientists and engineers to quickly see 3D surface images at many
different angles and at resolutions below one nanometer.
Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven
exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule
computer components, trigger even greater growth in c...
A giant lightweight carbon nanotube with good strength and electrical properties
is desirable, all right. A micron-sized carbon tube is easier to exploit commercially
than any (so to speak) littler nanocousin. But is it still a nanotube?
Nanoscience researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shown that they can control the growth and crystal structure of nanowires down to the single atom level.
How this can be done is described in an article to ap...
IBM (NYSE:IBM) Researchers today announced that they demonstrated the operation of graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies, and achieved the highest frequencies reported so far using this novel non-silicon e...
Two new high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, co-financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are set to open up new opportunities for research in physics and materials ...
Groundbreaking for the new Ion Beam Laboratory is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec.
16 at 1 p.m. on Kirtland Air Force Base east of Sandia’s
Processing Engineering & Technologies Lab (PETL) building.
A carbon nanotube-coated “smart yarn” that conducts electricity could be woven into soft fabrics that detect blood and monitor health, engineers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated.
“Curr...
BASF and Vorbeck Materials Corp. have established a joint research program to develop graphene-based formulations and composite materials. As part of the collaboration, Vorbeck and BASF are developing dispersions of highly conductive graphene for producing electrically conductive coating and compounds especially for the electronics industry.
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