Crystal-clear images reveal secrets of energy-efficient catalysts and novel materials

Published: November 12, 2021

To develop new materials and improve the efficiency of the chemical transformations that will someday provide renewable energy for our homes and businesses, scientists and engineers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., worked with building architects to design a space within the new Energy Sciences Center that is protected from magnetic fields, vibrations, and temperature fluctuations that can cause distorted images.

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3D printing nanoresonators: toward miniaturized and multifunctional sensors

Published: November 12, 2021

Collaborating researchers from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 3D printed mechanical nanoresonators with properties such as quality factor, published stability, mass sensitivity, and strength comparable to those of silicon resonators.

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Forge Nano’s Denver innovation campus continues expansion one year later

Published: November 12, 2021

Forge Nano Inc., Denver, completed its surface engineering innovation campus in Denver in 2020, and one year later, it continues to expand the facility with its new 40,000 sq. ft. facility in Thornton.

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KLA Tencor’s new Voyager 1035 laser scanning patterned wafer inspection system

Published: November 12, 2021

KLA Tencor, Milpitas, Calif., released its new Voyager 1035 laser scanning patterned wafer inspector, an inline defect monitor for advanced logic and memory chip manufacturing that finds and flags critical defects inline.

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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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