New system uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips.
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Optical technique could be essential tool for computer chips
Technique developed several years ago at NIST for improving optical microscopes could be applied to the next generation of computer chip circuit components.
Transformers can be integrated into new ceramics
Siemens scientists have developed new kinds of ceramics in which they can embed transformers.
LANL and Tribogenics produce lightweight, low-cost X-ray system
Handheld X-ray camera could provide real-time inspection of sealed containers and facilities.
Mark Allen is first scientific director of Singh Center for Nanotechnology
Mark G. Allen has been named the inaugural scientific director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology.
New material for low-platinum catalysis
Platinum-nickel nano-octahedra save 90 percent platinum.
Plasmonic transducer can measure motion on the nanoscale
Researchers confine plasmons in a resonant cavity only 20 nanometers wide to precisely measure mechanical motion smaller than the size of an atom.
Tunable artificial stem cell niches
Micropatterned multicomponent interfaces as in vitro models of stem cell microenvironments with increased spatial and temporal control.
3D printing can produce lithium-ion microbatteries
Novel application of 3D printing could enable the development of miniaturized medical implants, compact electronics, tiny robots, and more.
World's most powerful microscope open for business in Canada
Scanning transmission electron holography microscope, the first such microscope of its type in the world, up and running at University of Victoria.
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