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Cambridge NanoTech Partners with Stanford CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 21, 2010 — Atomic layer deposition (ALD) science and equipment provider, Cambridge NanoTech, announced Tuesday its partnership with Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Systems (CIS), a partnership between academia and industry that supports research in semiconductor and advanced electronics. The university is now outfitted with five of the company’s ALD systems. It has three of the company’s Savannah thermal ALD systems installed, and most recently acquired a Fiji F202 dual ch...
Nanocircuit Created on Graphene ATLANTA, Ga., June 16, 2010 — Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, which is widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors. The group has devised a simple and quick one-step...
Mining for Quantum Dots HOUSTON, May 26, 2010 — Graphene, the one-atom-thick, honeycomb-like form of carbon, is the material of choice for physicists on the cutting edge of materials science. Researchers mentored by Boris Yakobson, a Rice professor of mechanical engineering and materials science...
Graphene Still a Great Thermal Conductor CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., April 14, 2010 — The single-atom thick material graphene maintains its high thermal conductivity when supported by a substrate, a critical step to advancing the material from a laboratory phenomenon to a useful component in a range of nano-electronic devices. The...
Graphene Clears Major Fabrication Hurdle BERKELEY, Calif., April 13, 2010 — Graphene, the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, is a potential superstar for the electronics industry. With freakishly mobile electrons that can blaze through the material at nearly the speed of light – 100 times faster than...
Nanoscale Frictional Characteristics Revealed PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 7, 2010 — Friction force microscopy has been used to determine the nanoscale frictional characteristics of four atomically-thin materials, in the process discovering a universal characteristic for these very different materials. Nanotechnology researchers...
Epitaxic Graphene Demonstrated MIDDLESEX, England, Jan. 20, 2010 – A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including...
Fluorescein Images Graphene EVANSTON, Ill., Dec. 28, 2009 – Researchers at Northwestern University used the dye fluorescein to create an imaging technique to view graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet that could be used to produce low-cost carbon-based transparent and flexible electronics.
Mess-Free Graphene Growth ITHACA, N.Y., Nov. 16, 2009 – A research team at Cornell University invented a simple, less expensive way to make graphene electrical devices by growing graphene -- one-atom-thick layers of carbon -- directly onto a silicon wafer.
Electrons Lured From Graphene NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Oct. 21, 2009 – Rutgers researchers discovered novel electronic properties in 2-D sheets graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices. The new findings, previously considered possible by physicists but only now being seen in...
Graphite Proves Ferromagnetic EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, Oct. 5, 2009 – In what could be promising results for new applications in nanotechnology, such as biosensors and detectors, researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology showed for the first time why ordinary graphite is ferromagnetic, or a permanent magnet at...
Light Links Graphene, Gallium BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany, Sept. 18, 2009 – Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) scientists succeeded in making graphene visible on gallium arsenide – an achievement previously only possible on silicon oxide – by using a light optical microscope.
Carbon Nanotube Solar Cells ITHACA, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2009 – Using a rolled-up sheet of graphene instead of traditional silicon, Cornell University researchers created the basic elements of a solar cell that they hope will lead to much more efficient ways of converting light to electricity. But issues such as...
Camera Flash Forms Conductor EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 13, 2009 – The new process invented at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science replaces high-temperature heating or chemical reduction by using a camera flash to instantly convert the low-cost insulator graphite oxide into...
PECASE Funds Photonics Work WASHINGTON, July 13, 2009 -- Scientists and engineers focused on photonics-related work were among the 100 named by President Barack Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US...
Carbon's Crystal Crawl Caught BERKELEY, Calif., April 1, 2009 — Carbon atoms moving along the edge of a graphene crystal have been captured on film, the first-ever live recording of the dynamics of carbon atoms in graphene. The work could lead to a new level of understanding and control of nanomaterials, such as...
Graphene's Nature Controlled TROY, N.Y., Jan. 21, 2009 – Researchers now can tune graphene’s electrical properties by growing it on different surfaces, a discovery that could bring the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics one step closer to realization. Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of...
TEAM Yields Stunning Images BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 11, 2008 -- The world's most powerful transmission electron microscope has been used to produce stunning images of individual carbon atoms in graphene, the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon that is highly prized by the electronics industry. Using...
Sizing Up Graphene BERKELEY, Calif., June 9, 2008 -- The extraordinary properties of graphene have reportedly been measured with an accuracy never before achieved, confirming many of its strangest features but revealing significant departures from theoretical predictions. Results of research at the...
Graphene-based LCDs Devised MANCHESTER, England, May 2, 2008 -- Highly transparent and highly conductive ultrathin films have been produced by dissolving chunks of graphite then spraying the resulting graphene onto a glass surface.Researchers at the University of Manchester in England used graphene, which is...
Transistor is 1 Atom Thick MANCHESTER, England, April 21, 2008 -- Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of graphite that combines aspects of semiconductors and metals, has been carved into tiny electronic circuits containing individual transistors not much bigger than a molecule. Kostya Novoselov, PhD, and professor...
Graphene In, Silicon Out? COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 24, 2008 -- Graphene's ability to conduct electricity has been found to be higher than any other known material at room temperature. The research shows that graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of graphite that combines aspects of semiconductors and metals, is a...
Unruly Electrons Quieted YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., March 10, 2008 -- Noise in graphene-based semiconductor devices can, in fact, be suppressed, it has been discovered. IBM scientists said they have found a way to suppress unwanted interference of electrical signals created when shrinking graphene -- a...
Microprocessing Technique Yields Ultrathin Membranes STUTTGART, Germany, and MANCHESTER, England, March 5, 2007 -- Using a fabrication method for producing microprocessors, scientists have created what they said is the thinnest material that will ever exist: Carbon membranes that are only one atom thick. The membrane may allow them to examine individual...
Quantum Hall Effect Observed at Room Temperature TALLAHASSEE, Fla., & NIJMEGEN, Netherlands, Feb. 20, 2007 -- The world's most powerful magnets have given an international research team a first-time look at the quantum Hall effect at room temperature. A better understanding of the quantum world can help scientists develop better ultrasmall electrical...
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