Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., and Tokyo Electron Ltd., report that they have received notice from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) that there are no unresolved national security issues relating to the proposed business combination announced last year.
Researchers at the Berkeley Lab Molecular Foundry report that they have developed rhenium disulfide, a semiconductor that functions electronically as if it were a 2D monolayer even as a 3D bulk material.
Work from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien and Energie (HZB), and University of Münster, both in Germany, shows how new phases in a nickel-based alloy form and evolve, providing clues to how high-performance alloys could be improved.
Rice University scientists created a new paint they call “strain paint” and think it will help detect deformations in structures like airplane wings.
Researchers at Stanford University, Calif., developed a process to create flexible chips that can tolerate power fluctuations in much the same way as silicon circuitry.
