semiconductors

Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

harminka — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:21:29 -0600

A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared mapping of strain fields in semiconductors.

Semiconducting nanotubes produced in quantity at Duke

harminka — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:10:29 -0600

After announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led team of chemists has now modified that process to create exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Cracking tough nut for semiconductor industry

harminka — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:12:05 -0600

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method to measure the toughness—the resistance to fracture—of the thin insulating films that play a critical role in high-performance integrated circuits.

There could be no end in sight for Moore’s Law

harminka — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:14:38 -0600

The fast pace of growing computing power could be sustained for many years to come thanks to new research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) that is applying advanced techniques to magnetic semiconductors.

Researchers discover sought property in magnetic semiconductor

harminka — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:50:52 -0600

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated for the first time the existence of a key magnetic—as opposed to electronic—property of specially built semiconductor devices.

New method to measure how strain affects semiconductors

harminka — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:37:55 -0600

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that could lay the foundation for faster flexible electronics.

New nanocluster to boost thin films for semiconductors

harminka — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:21:32 -0500

Oregon researchers have synthesized an elusive metal-hydroxide compound in sufficient and rapidly produced yields, potentially paving the way for improved precursor inks that could boost semiconductor capabilities for large-area applications.

Better organic semiconductors for printable electronics

harminka — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:11:41 -0500

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Seoul National University (SNU) have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend.

Racetrack for fast electrons in semiconductor structures

harminka — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:56:21 -0500

In order to realize the electrical units of voltage, resistance and current with highest accuracy quantum effects in nano-circuits are nowadays used. Important prerequisites are extremely pure semiconductor layers where high-mobile electrons move through the crystal without collision with residual impurities.

Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers

harminka — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:50:46 -0500

Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller beam divergence than conventional ones.

Researchers enhance lithography light sources

harminka — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:37:07 -0500

A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices. So far, the semiconductor industry has been successful in its consistent efforts to reduce feature size on a chip.

Quantum computing breakthrough arises from unknown molecule

harminka — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:37:33 -0500

The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.