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Flaws May Hold Key to Designing The Perfect Nanoelectric Circuit from Carbon Nanotubes

The paradox of perfection – that flaws make things perfect – could be the key to designing nanoelectronic circuits from carbon nanotubes, according to US scientists. They have discovered that a circuit of nan...

21 Dec 2008

World Leading Semiconductor Producers Demonstrate Leading-Edge Nano Logic Processes at IEDM

Although several of the processes are not expected to go into production in the form presented this week, Intel said during a late paper presentation that it has completed the process development phase of its 32 nm process.

18 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology to Help Build Molecular Computers

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 computing over the next 60?

18 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology Researchers Elected to World's Largest Scientific Body

Five Brown University faculty have been awarded the distinction of fellow from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The new fellows, among 486 chosen from the AAAS membership this year, include...

18 Dec 2008

IBM Using Nanotechnology to Develop Next Generation Cell Phones

Researchers at the company are using nanotechnology to build a future generation of wireless transceivers that are much more sensitive than the ones found in phones today. They'll also be made with a less expensive m...

18 Dec 2008

New World-leading Research Center to Exploit Properties of the World's Thinnest Material for Nanotechnology Applications

The Universities of Exeter and Bath (UK) can today reveal their plans for a new world-leading research centre to explore and exploit the properties of the thinnest material in nature. The two universities have won a &pou...

18 Dec 2008

Novel MEMS-based Pedestrian Navigation System Help Keep Pedestrian Safe

VTI Technologies has announced a novel MEMS-based pedestrian navigation solution demonstrator. Making its debut at CES 2009, the small wearable device can track the position, speed and distance of a pedestrian. It relies...

17 Dec 2008

Printing Circuited Lattices of Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base

It's a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon it using a potentially inexpensive low-temperature process.

17 Dec 2008

Toshiba, IBM, and AMD Develop World's Smallest Functional SRAM Cell

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that they have together developed a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cell that has an area of only 0.128 square micrometers (μm...

17 Dec 2008

First Nontoxic Method for Biodegrading Carbon Nanotubes

University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed the first natural, nontoxic method for biodegrading carbon nanotubes, a finding that could help diminish the environmental and health concerns that mar the otherwise br...

16 Dec 2008