32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...eds for high-resolution X-ray microanalysis in the semiconductor industry and materials research. Stewart Automotive Research (Houston, Texas) Highly Accurate Large-Format Machining for Mold and Die ProductionDevelop a large-format, high-speed finish milling machine for Class-A auto body panels to enable th...New Stanford center probes nanoscale material
... such as mapping a single electron's behavior in a semiconductor and controlling a single electron's magnetic orientation, or "spin." The probes will help researchers address questions such as: At what length scale does quantum mechanical behavior become classical diffusive behavior? How does the spin state of an ...University of Oregon professor wins 2004 Spiers Medal
...esses in our lives including biological processes, semiconductor processing, and cleaning up environmental hazards. The Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research fund her research. At 51, Richmond is among the nation's most productive university researchers. At last ...NIH awards Emory and Georgia Tech $10 million for partnerships in cancer nanotechnology
...ogy. Quantum dots are nanometer-sized luminescent semiconductor crystals that have unique electronic and optical properties due to their size and their highly compact structure. "The goal of this exploratory program is to develop a new class of bioconjugated quantum dots that can both image and target single-mo...Acoustics meeting in San Diego
...evious designs (2pPA4). In the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry, there has been no reliable way to monitor silicon wafers as they undergo dozens of crucial "megasonic" cleaning steps, in which the wafer is immersed in a liquid and blasted with very-high-frequency (megahertz) sound waves to remove impurit...ORNL project earns top honor from Southeast tech transfer group
...r comb technology uses a light-induced charge on a semiconductor liquid interface to transport biological molecules on the surface of a microchip, illuminating the semiconductor with a low-cost light source. This movement results in fast and accurate biomolecular separations wi...UCLA researchers detail the evolution of quantum dot imaging in the journal Science
...r ways to diagnose and treat cancers. Fluorescent semiconductor quantum dots, or qdots, also hold promise for high-resolution cellular imaging and the long-term observation of individual molecules and their movement within cells, according to a UCLA-led team of chemistry and biochemistry researchers that includes...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2005
...s, particularly as sensors and switches and in the semiconductor industry. Funding for this research, which is published in the Jan. 27 issue of Nature, is provided by ORNL'S Laboratory Directed Research and Development program. [Contact: Ron Walli, 865-576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov ] HOMELAND SECURITY -- Safe harb...Physics team puts new twist on spin hall effect
... announced discovery of a new spintronic effect in semiconductor chips, the intrinsic spin Hall effect, which puts ...ity, ultra-thin conducting layer embedded within a semiconductor chip using built-in light-emitting diodes. Armed with this novel tool, Wunderlich and Kaestner teame...Combating blindness is vision of UT, ORNL project
...atory technology originally intended to understand semiconductor defects. The project takes advantage of the Department of Energy lab's proprietary content-based image retrieval technology, which is a method for sorting and finding visually similar images in large databases. Manufacturers of semiconductors have fo...Nanotechnology's progress and challenges addressed during ACS meeting
...ation in Hayward, Calif., have created fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystal labels for cells and other biological material. The researchers recently used light-scattering techniques to probe the distance between two gold nanocrystals at the single molecule level. These nanocrystals hold promise as flags of biolog...Harvard, Texas A&M scientists develop new laser
...es the advantages of nonlinear optical devices and semiconductor injection lasers with a compact design, and may on...toms are "spray painted" on a substrate to produce semiconductor films only a few atomic layers thick. "Perhaps what's most important is that the new laser is not d...NIH awards Georgia Tech/Emory $11.5 M for nano cardiology research
...types of nanostructured probes molecular beacons, semiconductor quantum dots and magnetic nanoparticles. Healthy, ...vascular disease. Quantum dots are nanometer-sized semiconductor particles that have unique electronic and optical properties due to their size and their highly comp...ORNL technologies win maximum Federal Laboratory Consortium awards
...r Comb technology uses a light-induced charge on a semiconductor liquid interface to transport biological molecules on the surface of a microchip, illuminating the semiconductor with a low-cost light source. This movement results in fast and accurate biomolecular separations wi...Gold nanoparticles may simplify cancer detection
... using artificial atoms known as Quantum Dots uses semiconductor crystals to mark cancer cells, but the semiconductor material is potentially toxic to the cells and humans. "This technique is very simple and inexpensiv...PNAS highlights for the week of May 16 - 20
...e tips and an adhesive aspartate center, while the semiconductor had parallel veins with alternating strong and weak adherence properties. Adhesion dropped when the separation between the veins bonding the aspartate became so small that the leucine segments no longer fit between the veins. The researchers suggest ...First high-tech incubator at a women's college says girls can do science
...nd world leader in the development of quantum dots semiconductor nanomaterials engineered to enable the creation of advanced products for numerous markets including life sciences, solid state lighting, energy, security, telecommunications and emergent nanotechnology markets. Additional companies will be added over...... growing field of nanotechnology, in particular in semiconductor nanoelectronics and in molecular electronics, which is based on nano test tubes. Gornyi will set up his independent junior research group at the Institute for Theory of Condensed Matter at the University of Karlsruhe. Lucas L. Pelkmans, a Dutch cell ...UW-Madison small-scale research receives big boost
..., he says, a final research focus now will address semiconductor nanomembranes, a new form of nanomaterial, and implementing them initially in silicon, the most widely used semiconductor. These membranes have unique electronic and mechanical properties. Combined with their extreme flexibility, structural perfectio...Three ORNL technologies earn technology transfer excellence awards
...cords temperatures of the production line area for semiconductor microchips. Maintaining precise, uniform temperatures during microchip wafer production is important, and this instrument provides an accurate map of the thermal environment throughout the production process. ORNL participants in this effort are Carl...