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New Report on Printing Equipment for Printed Electronics

This unique report addresses the applications and technologies of printing, curing and key integration equipment that is enabling printed electronics.

19 Sep 2014

Interstellar Dust Impact Creates Nano-Sized Crater

Since 2006, when NASA's Stardust spacecraft delivered its aerogel and aluminum foil dust collectors to Earth, a team of scientists has combed through the collectors in search of rare, microscopic particles of interstellar dust.

18 Aug 2014

UV-Assisted Nanoimprint Moulding Used to Fabricate Polymer Slot Waveguide

Slot waveguide is a specific light-guiding structure with a property to enhance the optical field in a nanometer scale void of low refractive index (RI) material embedded between higher RI material rails. Typically, slot waveguides have been fabricated from high refractive index inorganic dielectrics or semiconductors, such as silicon or silicon nitride, and they operate in the near infrared (NIR) wavelength region.

18 Aug 2014

Imperfect Graphene May Be Slightly Brittle

There is no disputing graphene is strong. But new research by Rice University and the Georgia Institute of Technology should prompt manufacturers to look a little deeper as they consider the miracle material for applications.

30 Apr 2014

Stress Induced Phase Transformations in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys Studied Via In-Situ Nanoindentation Technique

In-situ nanoindentation study of phase transformation in magnetic shape memory alloys

18 Apr 2014

Gold Coating Over Etched Nanoscale Pattern Dims Glare

All that's gold does not glitter, thanks to new work by UC Irvine scientists that could reduce glare from solar panels and electronic displays and dull dangerous glints on military weapons.

7 Apr 2014

Scientists Employ Nanoindentation to Sample Initial Formation of Shear Bands in Metallic Glass

What do some high-end golf clubs and your living room window have in common? The answer is glass, but in the golf clubs' case it's a specialized glass product, called metallic glass, with the ability to be bent considerably and spring back into its original form. Your windows, as you know, aren't quite as forgiving of a sudden impact, and they shatter – they are brittle, as opposed to ductile, or more flexible products.

From Los Alamos National Laboratory 5 Mar 2014

Korean Memory Manufacturer Places Repeat Orders for AMEC’s Single-Station Chamber Advanced Dielectric Etch Tool

Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC) said today that a leading Korean manufacturer of memory ICs has placed repeat orders for its Single-Station Chamber Advanced Dielectric Etch tool, the Primo SSC AD-RIE™.

13 Feb 2014

UT Nanomaterials Expert Named to National Academy of Engineering

George Pharr, Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Joint Faculty Scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named to the National Academy of Engineering. He becomes the fifth NAE member in the College of Engineering.

7 Feb 2014

Nanotextured, Silicon Micro-Cell Arrays Hold Promise for Mass Production of More Efficient Solar Cells

Converting sunshine into electricity is not difficult, but doing so efficiently and on a large scale is one of the reasons why people still rely on the electric grid and not a national solar cell network.

10 Dec 2013