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Imec Presents forksheet Device as the Ultimate Solution to Push Scaling Towards the 2nm Technology Node

AZoNano   -   Nanotechnology Websites

This week, at the 2019 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents first standard cell...

Dec 10, 2019

Tiny crystals work better when they double up with designer frameworks

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers wrote a set of design rules that they then used to direct the self-assembly of the crystals and the cages into new types sheet-like structures.

Dec 10, 2019

Pushing the precision of nanoscale mapping

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Like all scanning probe microscopes, AFM is susceptible to instrument 'crosstalk', or background signals that can mask the true atomic force measurement of interest and create misleading results. For the first time, researchers offer a n...

Dec 10, 2019

Microscopy Method Helps Study Ultrafast Events in Nano-Objects

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For many years, it had remained an inexplicit dream to analyze the single-particle dynamics at the femtosecond level and nanoscale. A single photon stimulates emission of a second, twin photon from...

Dec 10, 2019

Imec Shows Excellent Performance in Ultra-Scaled FETs with 2D-Material Channel

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At this year’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (Dec 7-11 2019), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, reports an in-depth...

Dec 10, 2019

How to induce magnetism in graphene

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have succeeded in synthesizing a unique nanographene predicted in the 1970s, which conclusively demonstrates that carbon in very specific forms has magnetic properties that could permit future spintronic applications.

Dec 10, 2019

How to induce magnetism in graphene

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Graphene, a two-dimensional structure made of carbon, is a material with excellent mechani-cal, electronic and optical properties. However, it did not seem suitable for magnetic applica-tions. Together with international partners, Empa researchers...

Dec 10, 2019

Insects' drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots

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Thrips don't rely on lift in order to fly. Instead, the tiny insects rely on a drag-based flight mechanism, staying afloat in airflow velocities with a large ratio of force to wing size. Researchers have performed the first test of drag force...

Dec 10, 2019

Switchable Optical Nanoantennas Made From a Conducting Polymer

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Creating switchable plasmons in plastics: Conductive polymer nanoantennas for dynamic organic plasmonics. Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics group at the Laboratory of Organic... The post Switchable Optical Nanoantennas Made Fro...

Dec 9, 2019

New Technique for Studying Ultrafast Events in Individual Quantum Dots

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Ultrafast Stimulated Emission Microscopy of Single Nanocrystals The ability to investigate the dynamics of single particle at the nano-scale and femtosecond level remained an unfathomed... The post New Technique for Studying Ultrafast Events in I...

Dec 9, 2019

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