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Spintronic Devices to Use Charge and Spin of Electrons

Researchers at the University of Utah have developed spintronic transistors to align magnetic spins of electrons in silicon chips at room temperatures.

17 Mar 2011

Interconnect Program at NanoCollege Addresses Infrastructure Issues

Hynix Semiconductor, a company developing Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (DRAMs) and flash memory chips, and SEMATECH recently declared that Hynix is now a member of SEMATECH’s three-dimensional Interconnect program at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) in the University at Albany.

14 Mar 2011

Purdue Researchers Invent New Technique to Create Microfluidic Devices

Researchers have invented a technique that uses inexpensive paper to make "microfluidic" devices for rapid medical diagnostics and chemical analysis.

27 Jan 2011

New Undergraduate Teaching Lab Helps Students to Explore Microfluidics

With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip.

21 Jan 2011

Rensselaer Engineers Develop Nano-Based Liquid Pistons

A few unassuming drops of liquid locked in a very precise game of "follow the leader" could one day be found in mobile phone cameras, medical imaging equipment, implantable drug delivery devices, and even implantable eye lenses.

11 Jan 2011

mPhase Technologies Completes Smart NanoBattery Phase II STTR Award

mPhase Technologies, Inc. said today, that the technical work recently completed under a Phase 2 STTR award has resulted in a substantial intellectual portfolio (IP) covering its Smart Nanobattery.

From MyPebble 21 Dec 2010

Breakthrough Towards Lab-on-Chip System for Fast Detection of Single Nucleotide Variations in DNA

Panasonic, core partner within imec’s Human++ program, and imec today presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco various critical components of a biomedical lab-on-chip sensor enabling...

From IMEC 8 Dec 2010

New Sensor to Detect Multiple Biological and Chemical Threats

A new class of sensors able to detect multiple biological and chemical threats simultaneously with unprecedented performance may soon be within reach thanks to the establishment of a multi-million dollar research center led by Georgia Institute of Technology engineers.

2 Dec 2010

New Micro Device for Quick Test of Cancer Biomarkers in Blood

Researchers at BYU have created a micro device that could both decrease the amount of blood and time needed to test for cancer-markers in a patient’s blood.

20 Nov 2010