Nearly $5 million has been awarded to 17 small businesses across nine states under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to fund projects exploring innovative metrology, measurement services, tools, and instrumentation, marking the first award for the CHIPS Research and Development Office in support of the U.S. semiconductor ecosystem.
Bruker Corporation, Billerica, Mass., released the Dektak Pro stylus profilometer, the next-generation profiler in the industry-leading Dektak product line, expanding measurement area and accuracy for critical analyses.
Researchers from TU Wien, Austria, and the University of Vienna have recently unraveled the complex structure of the Al2O3 surface, a puzzle that had eluded precise determination for over half a century.
Researchers on a team led by University of Michigan unveiled that phase separation, alongside oxygen diffusion, crucially supports the long-term retention of information in memristors, specifically in resistive random access memory.
For the first time, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N. M., have used silicon photonic microchip components to perform a quantum sensing technique called atom interferometry, an ultra-precise way of measuring acceleration and the latest milestone toward developing a kind of quantum compass for navigation when GPS signals are unavailable.
