Recent Headlines:

Nanofabrication:

NRL Develops New Low-Defect Method to Nitrogen Dope Graphene Resulting in Tunable Bandstructure – U.S. NRL

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Electronics Science and Technology and Materials Science and Technology Divisions, has demonstrated hyperthermal ion implantation (HyTII) as an effective means of substitutionally doping graphene – a hexagonally-arranged single-atomic thickness carbon sheet with nitrogen atoms.

Innovative Solar Absorber Can Harness More Sunlight, Enhancing its Sunlight-to-Heat Efficiency – Phys

Masdar Institute faculty are part of a collaborative team of researchers that has discovered a novel way to significantly increase the amount of sunlight that a solar absorber can convert into heat.

Powering Nanotechnology With The World’s Smallest Engine – IFL Science

Recent development has the potential to massively improve our lives: an engine measuring 200 billionths of a metre, which could power tiny robots to fight diseases in living cells.

Photonics:

Time-Gated FRET Nanoassemblies for Rapid and Sensitive Intra- and Extracellular Fluorescence Imaging – Science Advances

Time-gated Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) using the unique material combination of long-lifetime terbium complexes (Tb) and semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) provides many advantages for highly sensitive and multiplexed biosensing.

Broadband Wavelength Demultiplxer Realized on a Nanoscale Photonic Chip – Phys

The realization of photonic chips is a long–sought research goal.

Capasso Lab Reports Planar Metalens Designed to Replace Glass Optics – Photonics

Materials science has made a great leap forward toward replacing glass lenses with metasurface materials that are practical to manufacture and produce aberration-free, subwavelength-resolution images.

Packaging:

How To Build Systems In Package – Semiconductor Engineering

The semiconductor industry is racing to define a series of road maps for semiconductors to succeed the one created by the ITRS, which will no longer be updated, including a brand new one focused on heterogeneous integration.

EU Project Applies Nanotechnology to Food Packaging – Nano Werk

The SVARNISH project develops a varnish with antimicrobial, oxygen and water vapour barrier properties and improved physic-mechanical properties to be used in the food industry.

Advanced Packaging Forum Provides Answers at SEMICON West 2016 – Solid State Technology

SEMI announced that the latest packaging solutions will be the topic of an in-depth session at the SEMICON West 2016 Advanced Packaging Forum – and on display on the exhibition floor.

Bio-Medical:

Manufacturing Bits: June 14 – Semicondutor Engineering

The European Commission has launched a program that will replicate the brain’s neural network using 3D nano-printing.

Nanoprobe Enables Measurement of Protein Dynamics in Living Cells – Phys

A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Rowland Institute at Harvard University have used a specialized nanoprobe developed by the Harvard/Rowland investigators to directly measure levels of key proteins within living, cultured cells.

From Nanotechnology, a Better Prognostic Tool for Brain Cancer – Science Daily

A new nano-fabricated platform for observing brain cancer cells provides a much more detailed look at how the cells migrate and a more accurate post-surgery prognosis for brain cancer (glioblastoma) patients.

Materials:

Tiny Diamonds Could Enable Huge Advances in Nanotechnology – Phys

Nanomaterials have the potential to improve many next-generation technologies.

Conformal Titanium Nitride in a Porous Silicon Matrix: A Nanomaterial for In-Chip Supercapacitors – Science Direct

Today’s supercapacitor energy storages are typically discrete devices aimed for printed boards and power applications.

A Reprieve for Moore’s Law: Milspec Chip Writes Computing’s Next Chapter – Ars Technica

At the front door of Raytheon’s Integrated Air Defense Center, there’s a reminder of how big microwave electronics used to be – the original microwave oven.

Graphene Isn’t the Only Lego in the Materials-Science Toy Box – Phys

Reports have trumpeted graphene as an ultra-thin, super-strong, super-conductive, super-flexible material. You could be excused for thinking it might even save all of humanity from certain doom.

Sensors:

X-ray Experiments Show How Memristors Work – Science Daily

Scientists have experimentally confirmed critical aspects of how a new type of microelectronic device, the memristor, works at an atomic scale.

Misleading Images in Cell Biology – Science Daily

Virtually all membrane proteins have been reported to be organized as clusters on cell surfaces, when in fact many of them are just single proteins which have been counted multiple times. A new method can now distinguish between both cases.

Researchers Improve Biosensors to Detect E. Coli – Phys

Washington State University researchers have developed a portable biosensor that makes it easier to detect harmful bacteria.