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Etron Chooses Analog FastSPICE Nanometer Circuit Verification Platform

Taiwan-based Etron Technologies, which is a fabless Integrated Circuits design and product company has selected Berkeley Design Automation’s Analog FastSPICE(AFS) Platform for verifying the integrity of their memory designs used in consumer and low-power products.

24 May 2012

Indian River State College Establishes Advanced Materials Laboratory in Collaboration with NanoProfessor

The Indian River State College (IRSC) has inaugurated its advance materials laboratory in the premises of its recently established Brown Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

23 May 2012

Samsung Electronics Starts Mass Production of 20-nm-Class 4 Gb LPDDR2 Memory

Samsung Electronics has revealed that mass production of first-of-its-kind 20-nm-class 4 Gb low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) memory has been started last month.

From Samsung Electronics 19 May 2012

SMIC Inks Deal to Build Expansion Project Operating at 32/28 and 45/40 nm Nodes

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), a state-of-the-art semiconductor foundry in China, has reported that its subsidiary SMIC Beijing has inked a cooperation framework document with the Beijing municipal government to establish a joint venture to start SMIC Beijing's second phase expansion project.

16 May 2012

TowerJazz Unveils 180 nm Power Management Analog/Mixed-Signal Reference Design Flow

TowerJazz has introduced a 180 nm power management analog/mixed-signal reference design flow called Reference Flow 2.0 that features Cadence Design Systems’ key technology.

15 May 2012

BT Imaging’s New Production Tools Enable High-Yield Cast Mono Wafers

BT Imaging, a provider of luminescence-based inspection and quality control systems for use in the photovoltaic production industry, has unveiled a suite of production tools that allows photovoltaic wafer manufacturers to communicate and work efficiently with cell manufacturers to achieve the optimal cell efficiency.

14 May 2012

Piezoelectric Viruses Power Thin-Film Generator

New approach is a promising first step toward the development of tiny devices that harvest electrical energy from everyday tasks

14 May 2012

Thin-Film Bio-Copolymer Raises Physical Limit to Microprocessor Performance

The development of a new copolymer, combining sugar-based with oil-based macromolecules, makes it possible to design ultra-thin films capable of self-organization on a scale of just 5 nm. This opens up new horizons for increasing the capacity of hard discs and the speed of microprocessors.

13 May 2012

New Graphene Quilt Cooling Technique for High-Power Semiconductor Devices

A research team from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a cooling technique using graphene multilayers to remove heat from gallium nitride, a semiconductor material utilized in various applications ranging from electric cars to traffic lights.

From University of California at Riverside 10 May 2012

Call for Abstracts Opens for the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference in Madrid, September 2012

Madrid (Spain) will host the 13th edition of the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT 2012) from the 10th until the 14th of September 2012. This high-level scientific meeting aims to present a broad ...

8 May 2012