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Tiny Disk Shaped Laser Could Send Information through Optical Computers

Tiny disk-shaped lasers as small as a speck of dust could one day beam information through optical computers. Unfortunately, a perfect disk will spray light out, not as a beam, but in all directions. New theoretical resu...

22 Jan 2009

Single Electron Pump and Spintronics Open Up New Possibilities for Electronics

Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where ...

21 Jan 2009

Stretchable Electronics that can be Wrapped Around Complex Shapes and Objects

Jizhou Song, a professor in the University
of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers,
at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern
University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can
be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function.

21 Jan 2009

Scientists Grow Long Straight Semiconducting Single Walled Nanotubes

After announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight,
numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke
University-led team of chemists has now modified that process to create
exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes.

From Linde plc 21 Jan 2009

The Era of Graphene-Based Nanoelectronics gets Closer

Researchers at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature
of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing
the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics.

21 Jan 2009

World's Leading Scientific Publisher Makes Significant Acquisition

Elsevier,
the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information
products and services, announced today the acquisition of the publishing assets
of William Andrew.

From Elsevier - Materials Science & Technology Publisher 21 Jan 2009

Moser Baer Ready to start Producing Thin Film Photovoltaic Modules

Moser Baer, today announced that its photovoltaic subsidiary is ready
for production of thin film photovoltaic modules at its manufacturing plant
in Greater Noida. This follows final acceptance test (FAT) certification of
Moser Baer Photovoltaic's SunFab Thin Film Line supplied by Applied
Materials.

21 Jan 2009

University of Helsinki and ASM International N.V. Extend Atomic Layer Deposition Research Agreement

Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and ASM Microchemistry Ltd. have renewed their long-term research agreement. ASM Microchemistry Ltd. is a subsidiary of the semiconductor processing tool su...

20 Jan 2009

Keithley Semiconductor Test Software Named Hot 100 Electronic Product for 2008

Keithley Instruments, a leader in emerging measurement solutions, announces that
its KTEI (Keithley Test Environment Interactive) V7.1 software for the Model
4200-SCS (Semiconductor Characterization System) has been named one of EDN magazine's
Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008.

20 Jan 2009

New Novel Ceramic Linear Motor Actuators to be Launched at Photonics West

Piezo systems specialist Physik
Instrumente will introduce the novel N-380 / N-381 NEXACT® ceramic
linear motor actuators at this year’s Photonics West conference in San
Jose, CA. The new actuator is based on the Piezo Walk principle and replaces
classical lead screw actuators combining high forces and long travel ranges
with sub-nanometer resolution in a small package.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 20 Jan 2009

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