Simulations Help North and South Dakota Researchers Decide Which Technology Would Make a Better Solar Collector, Quantum Dot or Nanowire A trio of researchers at North Dakota State Universit... Read more
Light Shines Bright at Precise Frequencies that Suit Commercial Applications Commercial uses for ultraviolet (UV) light are growing, and now a new kind of LED under development at The Ohio S... Read more
All those technologies may be possible thanks to a breakthrough at the Navy’s premier research lab Imagine: tiny sensors built into military combat gear to detect chemical or biological weap... Read more
Teaching nanowires self-control from the outset enabled Weizmann Institute scientists to produce complex electronic nanocomponents Researchers working with tiny components in nanoelectronics... Read more
Berkeley Lab Researchers Report First Fully Integrated Artificial Photosynthesis Nanosystem In the wake of the sobering news that atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at its highest level in at... Read more
Nanotechnology transforms molecular beams into functional nano-devices with controlled atomic architectures Bottom-up synthesis of nanowires through metal-catalyzed vapor phase epitaxy is a... Read more
Imagine a solar panel more efficient than today’s best solar panels, but using 10,000 times less material. This is what EPFL researchers expect given recent findings on these tiny filaments... Read more
The number of transistors in a given space could be increased considerably, along with the performance capacity of microprocessors and memory units. The team from Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’... Read more
Swedish researchers can now read signals from ultrathin electrodes implanted in a living brain. If supported by funds from President Obama’s brain study, the nanotechnology may lead to major... Read more
‘Nanowires’ that are 15 times stronger than steel and can be manufactured in lengths potentially of 1000’s of kilometres The University of Southampton‘s Optoelectroni... Read more
Could make their manufacture thousands of times quicker, allowing for cheaper semiconductors A completely new method of manufacturing the smallest structures in electronics could make their... Read more
This finding may revolutionise the technology industry. Norwegian researchers are the world’s first to develop a method for producing semiconductors from graphene. The method involves growin... Read more
“We see a future where ‘consumer electronics’ become ‘consumer photonics’ Computers may be getting faster every year, but those advances in computer speed could be dwarfed if their 1’s and 0... Read more
The process could be scaled up for an industrial roll-to-roll manufacturing process A new “nano machine shop” that shapes nanowires and ultrathin films could represent a future m... Read more
“If we can start to use carbon dioxide and light to power reactions in organic chemistry, there’s a huge benefit to that” Harnessing the power of the sun has inspired scien... Read more
