For ion implantation, that is 'hammering' ions into the surface layer of the material, conventional ion accelerators are commonly used. Laser ion sources are much simpler, cheaper and more universal. However, they emit wide energy ions usually accompanied by some admixtures. In the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion in Warsaw a unique laser ion source has been built which is equipped with a special system for accelerating ions to a chosen energy and for eliminating admixtures.

CSTIC is the largest annual industrial semiconductor technology conference in China. It is organized by SEMI and ECS, co-organized by China's High-Tech Expert Committee (CHTEC) and co-sponsored by IEEE, MRS and China Electronics Materials Industry Association.

Imec researchers, in collaboration with Tokyo Electron, have successfully integrated and characterized carbon nanotubes (CNT) into 150nm contact holes with a TiN underlayer and a Cu single damascene top contact module. The process steps are CMOS-compatible and the platform is designed for fast and automatic electrical testing and for benchmarking different CNT recipes and process conditions.

Imec engineers have, for the first time, demonstrated the fabrication of extremely small sealed cavities (less than one picoliter in volume), fabricated directly on 200mm silicon wafers. The crucial process step is the production of freestanding thin membranes of nanoporous anodic alumina.

Imec in collaboration with Lam Research presents a new method for the quantitative evaluation of wafer drying techniques. The method uses Si nano-pillar test structures in combination with top-down scanning electron microscopy (TD-SEM) inspection.

Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips has announced a $10 million plan to support Victorian industry to improve productivity through the use of small technologies.

Life Technologies, a global biotechnology company operating in India as Invitrogen BioServices India Pvt. Ltd., presented its unprecedented next-generation sequencing product - Ion Torrent Personal Genome MachineTM (PGM) to its customers in India.

Rice, Colorado discovery could boost metamaterials, high-strength fibers.

A research team at Georgia Tech is investigating how to get devices a million times smaller than the length of an ant to communicate with one another to form nanonetworks. And they are using a different take on "cellular" communication - namely how bacteria communicate with one another - to find a solution.

Coded magnets, the new programmable magnetics technology that is scalable to the nanoscale, will be used in the new space telescope that is being developed to replace the Hubble.

Junrong Zheng's techniques to see the fine details of how molecules interact have earned the young Rice University scientist a highly prestigious Packard Fellowship.

The Federal Government today released a national strategy for ensuring that environmental, health, and safety research needs are fully identified and addressed in the fast-growing field of nanotechnology.

Diatoms have found a way of controlling silica at the nanoscale that is very sophisticated and is far beyond what we can achieve in the lab. Learning the secrets of these remarkable cells should enable us to make new catalysts, sensors, diagnostic devices and medical imaging tools.

Nanostart-holding ItN Nanovation AG has finalized the binding contracts on the joint venture in Saudi Arabia that was preliminarily agreed in October 2010.

The U.S. Federal Government is committed to the responsible development of nanotechnology so that the benefits to society are maximized while the potential for unintended consequences from nanomaterials' novel properties is minimized.

Archimedes is the GNU package for semiconductor device simulations that has been released for the first time in 2005 under GPL. A new version of Archimedes and its GUI has been released on nanoHUB! You can run it on the fly now!

This Tuesday, October 18, the European Commission published its long-awaited definition of nanomaterials after a year of intense negotiations. The reactions were not long in coming, revealing power struggles so far mainly confined to Brussels area. Here is a first insight into the politics hidden behind this supposedly neutral and "scientific" definition, the next obstacles and important meetings.

Brewer Science, Inc., a global leading innovator and manufacturer of specialty materials, process solutions, and equipment for the microelectronics industry, and EV Group, a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology, and semiconductor markets, today announced an agreement on ZoneBOND technology.

Their size makes carbon nanotubes difficult to detect, examine and manipulate. Michael Blades, a senior electrical engineering and physics double-major, worked on this problem last summer in a research internship with Lehigh's Environmental Initiative.

More than 100 companies around the world today are manufacturing carbon nanotubes and this number is expected to increase to more than 200 within the next five years, while there are more than 1,000 companies and institutions that are actively engaged in CNT research and development. This article looks at the market size, applications, processing technology and end-user products of carbon nanotubes. In addition, the study looks at industry leaders in the value chain, potential applications, products which are under development and are likely to enter the market in the next five to ten years. For this study, we have surveyed industry professionals/stakeholders in the CNTs value chain, extracted information from our proprietary in-house databases/ inter-linked databases as well as researched other primary and secondary sources and triangulated data and the findings are presented in this article.