Sentences with phrase «for nanoscale devices»

BBCurrent trends in optical and X-ray metrology of advanced materials for nanoscale devices V (MATERIAL PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION)

«The more we understand about how these fibers work, the more we can get them to self - assemble,» a key advantage for nanoscale devices that are very difficult to manipulate directly.

The energy generated by the device is currently small (about a nanowatt), but Wang says that this is still an important step along the road to developing useful power sources for nanoscale devices.

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Whereas in this experiment the scientists tested nanoscale environments at room temperature to about 1300 degrees Celsius (2372 degrees Fahrenheit), the HERMES could be useful for studying devices working across a wide range of temperatures, for example, electronics that operate under ambient conditions to vehicle catalysts that perform over 300 C / 600 F.

The techniques could someday lead to a bevy of novel devices for electronics, photonics, nanoscale machines, and possibly disease detection.

The discovery, to be published April 26 in the journal Nature, could have major implications for a wide range of applications that rely upon ferromagnetic materials, such as nanoscale memory, spintronic devices, and magnetic sensors.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Manchester, U.K.; Imperial College, London; University of California San Diego; and the National Institute of Material Science (NIMS), Japan, have demonstrated that confined surface phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit unique metamaterial properties that enable novel nanoscale optical devices for use in optical communications, super-resolution imaging, and improved infrared cameras and detectors.

Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells that enables them to absorb about 20 percent more sunlight than uncoated devices.

Molecules are delivered from the AFM tip to a solid substrate of interest via capillary transport, making DPN a potentially useful tool for creating and functionalizing nanoscale devices.

Cahill's research group at Illinois studies the physical mechanisms governing the interplay of spin and heat at the nanoscale, addressing the fundamental limits of ultrafast spintronic devices for data storage and information processing.

Branton and his colleagues came up with the idea for ice lithography around five years ago, but say they have only now refined the technology to the point where they can produce working nanoscale devices.

The elastic electrode constructed of breathable nanoscale meshes holds promise for the development of noninvasive e-skin devices that can monitor a person's health continuously over a long period.

The nc - AFM microscopy provided striking visual confirmation of the mechanisms that underlie these synthetic organic chemical reactions, and the unexpected results reinforced the promise of this powerful new method for building advanced nanoscale electronic devices from the bottom up.

Researchers have invented a new trick for making electrical devices from nanoscale wires ¿ blowing bubbles.

So it's amazing, and it opens up a number of intriguing technological possibilities for real nanoscale devices in the future.

Cherepov, Khalili and Wang are members of the National Science Foundation - funded Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS), which focuses on multiferroic device applications.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign provides new insights on the physical mechanisms governing the interplay of spin and heat at the nanoscale, and addresses the fundamental limits of ultrafast spintronic devices for data storage and information processing.

The results, published in Nanoscale, have profound implications for healthcare diagnostics and open up opportunities for producing pre-packaged microfluidic platform blood or urine testing devices.

«First on - chip nanoscale optical quantum memory developed: Smallest - yet optical quantum memory device is a storage medium for optical quantum networks with the potential to be scaled up for commercial use.»

However recent theoretical advances show how to control light at the nanoscale, provided we can find the correct materials for our devices.

Nadrian C. Seeman, of New York University in the U.S., is the founding father of structural DNA nanotechnology, a field that exploits the structural properties of DNA to use it as a raw material for the next generation of nanoscale circuits, sensors, and biomedical devices.

Cherepov, Khalili and Wang are members of the National Science Foundation — funded Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS), which focuses on multiferroic device applications.

Binnig and Gerber discuss their inspiration for the device, how they solved problems through sport, and why their invention continues to propel science at the nanoscale.

Researchers hope to build and better characterize nanoscale molecular devices using DNA segments that can, for example, store and deliver drugs to targeted areas in the body.

It is based on boron nitride, a graphene - like 2D material, and was selected because of its capability to manipulate infrared light on extremely small length scales, which could be applied for the development of miniaturized chemical sensors or for heat management in nanoscale optoelectronic devices.

Abstract: Carbon nanotubes bound for electronics need to be as clean as possible to maximize their utility in next - generation nanoscale devices, and scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have found a way to remove contaminants from the nanotubes.

These investments, made under the auspices of the NNI, have enabled groundbreaking discoveries that have revolutionized science; established world - class facilities for the characterization of nanoscale materials and their fabrication into nanoscale devices; educated tens of thousands of individuals from undergraduate students to postdoctoral researchers; and fostered the responsible incorporation of nanotechnology into commercial products.

The results reported in Advanced Materials are works of art that may someday lead to nanoscale electronic devices, catalysts, molecular sieves and battery components, and on the macroscale could become high - load - bearing, impact - resistant components for buildings, cars, and aircraft.

«Optomechanics is an area of research in which extremely minute forces exerted by light (for example: radiation pressure, gradient force, electrostriction) are used to generate and control high - frequency mechanical vibrations of microscale and nanoscale devices,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.

Researchers are also investigating such nanophotonic devices as nanoscale lasers, quantum dots for solar cells and optical materials for quantum computing.

As for bismuth ferrite - based substances, we'll likely first see them in nanoscale data storage devices.