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Lam Research to open new semiconductor equipment manufacturing facility in Oregon
Published: November 12, 2021
Lam Research Corp., Fremont, Calif., announced the expansion of a new 45,000 square foot manufacturing facility in the city of Sherwood, Ore. planned to open in December 2021.
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New optical ‘transistor’ speeds up computation up to 1000 times at lowest switching energy possible
Published: October 22, 2021
An international research team at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Russia, and IBM, Armonk, N.Y., has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of computers manipulating photons rather than electrons.
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NIST and collaborators develop sensitive new way of detecting transistor defects
Published: October 22, 2021
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Pennsylvania State University have devised and tested a new, highly sensitive method of detecting and counting defects in transistors.
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Imaging technique reveals strains and defects in vanadium oxide
Published: October 22, 2021
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., have developed a new technique based on coherent X-ray diffraction imaging for revealing defects in nanostructured vanadium oxide, a widely used transition metal with many potential applications including electrochemical anodes, optical applications, and supercapacitors.
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Arizona’s most robust test laboratory adds new ETS I1045 shaker system
Published: October 22, 2021
National Technical Systems Inc., Anaheim, Calif., added a new ETS I1045 shaker system with a 480kVA amplifier to its laboratory in Tempe, Ariz.
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Tescan installs first new UniTOM HR Dynamic Micro-CT System at Catholic University of Leuven
Published: October 22, 2021
Tescan Orsay Holdings a.s., Czech Republic, announced the first installation of its new UniTOM HR dynamic micro-CT system at the KU Leuven XCT Core Facility, Belgium.
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$18M NSF grant to build national semiconductor fabrication facility
Published: October 22, 2021
Engineering researchers led by Distinguished Professor Alan Mantooth have received $18 million from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a national silicon carbide research and fabrication facility in Fayetteville, Ark. at the University of Arkansas.
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Ultrafast electron microscopy reveals unusual phenomenon
Published: September 24, 2021
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered that nanoparticles of gold act unusually when close to the edge of a one-atom thick sheet of carbon, called graphene. This could have big implications for the development of new sensors and quantum devices.
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New Argonne method greatly improves X-ray nanotomography resolution
Published: September 13, 2021
A group of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill., has created a new method for improving the resolution of hard x-ray nanotomography, a non-invasive x-ray imaging technique on the scale of nanometers.
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Berkeley Lab researchers devise a simple tactic to increase the efficiency of LED devices
Published: September 13, 2021
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, Calif., have demonstrated an approach for achieving near 100% light-emission efficiency in LEDs at all brightness levels based on stretching or compressing a thin semiconductor film in a way that favorably changes its electronic structure.
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