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Chemistry World October 9, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Growing gallium nitride LEDs on glass Korean researchers have grown crystalline gallium nitride on the surface of amorphous glass. The idea could lead to new, scalable ways of making semiconductor devices that don't need to be grown on silicon or sapphire wafers.  |
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Self-assembling DNA structures carve out a niche Researchers have used DNA nanostructures to create raised ridges and tiny trenches in silicon dioxide using an etching technique.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Neil Savage |
Cheaper LEDs Possible by Growing Gallium Nitride on Silicon Engineers take a step toward cheaper solid-state lighting.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz |
Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Ice transforms chipmaking Spraying water vapor onto cold silicon could be a simple way to make computer chips. The key is etching nanoscale lines into the resulting ice to make microscopic computer circuits. The process is environmentally friendly to boot.  |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.  |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 |
Molecules positioned on silicon Dubbed multi-step feedback control lithography, this new fabrication process could eventually be used to construct prototype molecular electronic devices for future technologies in areas like consumer electronics and biomedical diagnostics.  |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 |
Silicon Surfaces Speed Circuits Researchers have devised a way to use the chemistry of silicon surfaces to make smaller chip features.  |
Technology Research News August 27, 2003 |
Tool sketches quantum circuits Researchers from Cambridge University in England and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a lithographic technique, dubbed erasable electrostatic lithography, that allows a quantum device to be drawn in a few hours rather than a couple of weeks.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Gurnett & Adams |
Merging the Functionalities of Silicon, and III-Vs: Two Promising Approaches One of the least flexible rules in electronic design is the need to keep silicon devices, and compound semiconductor devices separate. Two new developments are now threatening to make this rule partly or entirely obsolete.  |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2008 Jill Jusko |
Low-Cost LED Lighting Advances Breakthrough by Purdue University could help reduce energy consumption.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Alexander Hellemans |
Strange Bedfellows Hybrid microcircuits, incorporating the desirable properties of the III-V compounds with those of cheap and ubiquitous silicon substrates, might soon find an important niche in electronics after all.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa |
Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials  |
Chemistry World December 15, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Electronics go on a Bender The prospect of low-cost, efficient electronic circuits being applied to flexible substrates has moved a step closer with two pieces of research reported by US scientists.  |
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 |
Process prints silicon on plastic The components could be used in flexible large-area displays, radiofrequency ID tags, sensors, and flexible applications like reconfigurable antennas.  |
Technology Research News September 8, 2004 |
Pure Crystal Promises Hardy Chips Silicon carbide is hardier than than the plain silicon most computer chips are made from, and so theoretically could be a useful material for computer chips that must withstand extreme environments and high-power applications.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Richard Stevenson |
Winner: NanoGaN's Crystal Method NanoGaN's substrates will grow better, cheaper lasers  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 |
Silicon Wafer Shipments Experience Growth for the Fifth Consecutive Year Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 20 percent in 2006 when compared to 2005 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG).  |
Chemistry World November 2, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Nanoparticle detector promises fast virus identification The technique, developed by US researchers, can discriminate between different viruses and is sensitive enough to detect the presence of a single virus particle.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Richard Stevenson |
The World's Best Gallium Nitride A little Polish company you've never heard of is beating the tech titans in a key technology of the 21st century  |
Chemistry World November 18, 2014 Tim Wogan |
New silicon allotrope could revolutionize solar cells A new, direct band gap allotrope of silicon has been synthesized by researchers in the US. It could potentially revolutionize solar cells and light-emitting devices.  |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Silicon Chip Laser Goes Continuous Useful lasers made from silicon would make it possible to move data between and within computer chips using light rather than electricity. This would make for faster chips that could be more tightly integrated with optical communications equipment.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye |
Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors  |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Metal atoms make silicon magnetic Devices made from magnetic semiconductors can make use of the spin of the electron in addition to its charge. These spintronics devices are potentially faster and consume less power than today' electronics.  |
Chemistry World August 29, 2012 James Urquhart |
Graphene--boron nitride stitching to sew up electronics The race to create ultrathin, transparent and flexible electronic devices using graphene -- the most conductive material known to exist -- has a promising new contender.  |
Inc. April 1, 2002 Kate O'Sullivan |
I'll Take Manhattan A Silicon Valley start-up combats semiconductor sprawl by figuring out a way to build its circuits up rather than out....  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Saswato R. Das |
Power Tool for Making Nanoscale Objects A physics team uses a special electron microscope to carve tiny gold, silver, and aluminum structures a few nanometers across.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl |
The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing  |
Chemistry World October 2007 Philip Ball |
The Crucible Feel free to make photovoltaics better. But don't forget they have to be cheaper, too.  |
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Silicon Nanowire Boost for Rechargeable Batteries Scientists in the US have devised an easy way of using silicon nanowires to increase the capacity of lithium batteries.  |
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Michael Singer |
HP Plots Its Nano Course Company believes in moving computing beyond silicon to the world of molecular-scale electronics.  |
BusinessWeek September 23, 2010 Oliver Staley |
Innovator: Walt de Herr Smaller, power-hungry processors push the limits of silicon. Physicist Walt de Heer thinks nanotechnology can provide a solution.  |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature.  |
Chemistry World February 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Efficient solar cells from silicon wires US researchers have designed a new silicon-based solar cell which uses 100 times less silicon than conventional photovoltaic devices.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2011 Richard Stevenson |
Silicon Is Key to Quest for $5 LED Lightbulb Bridgelux process grows gallium-nitride on high-volume silicon wafers  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Laser on Silicon Scientists have managed to combine an indium-phosphide light emitter and a silicon chip to produce a hybrid laser that, years from now, could lead to cheap terabit-per-second connections within and around computers.  |
Chemistry World September 27, 2012 Andy Extance |
Silicon sliver implants melt away A US-led team has made the first completely water-soluble silicon-based circuits and demonstrated simple medical implant devices that wouldn't need later removal.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Brian R. Santo |
Acronym Addiction When you live on the cutting edge of technology, there are, literally, no words to describe it. Instead we have acronyms. Lots and lots of acronyms. ABT... BEOL... CSP... etc.  |
Chemistry World August 21, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Double bonding with silicon In a landmark for silicon chemistry, US researchers have reported the first stable silicon (0) compound to contain a silicon-silicon double bond.  |
Chemistry World June 11, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Polymer, Heal Thyself Researchers have taken a leaf out of nature's book to develop a polymer-based system that can heal itself when it becomes damaged.  |
InternetNews September 18, 2006 David Needle |
Intel Sees The Laser Light Intel announced its latest research designed to create a super-fast hybrid silicon processor capable of moving data at terabits-per-second speed.  |
PC Magazine November 22, 2004 John R. Quain |
Changing Chip Architecture The more semiconductor components, you can pile on top of one another on a single block, the greater the cost savings. That's the idea behind the 3D chip technology from Matrix Semiconductor.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 41 David Bradley |
Implantable Chips This pioneering work in making single-crystal silicon bioactive is important to biomedical microdevices such as MEMS and biosensors.  |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2010 Anders Bylund |
No Longer a Skeptic of Silicon Image Like it or not, Silicon Image and its consumer-unfriendly technologies are here to stay.  |
InternetNews May 7, 2010 Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Highlights Future Tech The company's TechFair in Silicon Valley shows off advancements in privacy, file-sharing and other areas. And then there's the Translating Telephone.  |
Chemistry World March 1, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
World's Blackest Material Unveiled Researchers have unveiled the least shiny material ever made, a chunk of pure darkness that has the most anti-reflective coating known to science.  |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
All-silicon chip laser demoed Researchers from Intel have moved a step forward in the push to meld lasers and silicon chips, which could eventually be used in portable biological and chemical sensors, to amplify communications signals, and to convert light to different wavelengths.  |
The Motley Fool October 11, 2005 Dan Bloom |
Intel's Optical Breakthrough The chipmaker may open new tech frontiers by teaching silicon and light to cooperate.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2010 Richard Stevenson |
Lasers Get the Green Light Compact green-light sources could slash the cost of laser TV  |
Scientific American August 2005 Steven Ashley |
Making Light of Silicon Scientists at UCLA and Intel have obtained coherent photons of light from silicon. This low cost alternative to "exotic" semiconductor materials currently used as lasers will pave the way for many technological advances.  |