The Society of Manufacturing Engineer's Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture program highlights emerging technologies that are currently impacting manufacturing procedures.
Tags: Business + Entrepreneurship, Nanofibers, Nanotubes, electrodes
SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. (SWeNT) has received the prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2010 North American Technology Innovation Award in Carbon Nanotubes. The company was honored with this highly coveted award for its innovative CoMoCAT® nanotube production process by this global research organization, which monitors more than 300 industries and 250,000 companies with more than 1,800 analysts.
Tags: Business + Entrepreneurship, Carbon nanotubes
The National Nanotechnology Initiative has released its 2011 Supplement to the President's Budget. In his introductory letter, Presidential Science and Technology Advisor John Holdren notes that "Nanotechnology R&D constitutes a core building block of innovation that will ultimately accelerate job creation and transform many sectors of our economy through commercialization."
Tags: Policy and Regulation
| Li and Hofrichter offer two approaches for large-area synthesis of graphene on substrates with potential for device integration. |
Tags: Advanced Processes + Tools, Graphene
NSF Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Patterned metal oxide films having well-defined order and morphology are essential device layers in microelectronics, photovoltaics, and microfluidics for separations and sensors. In a typical fabrication process sequence, a planar metal oxide film is deposited, coated with multi-layer resist structures, patterned by optical lithography, etched, stripped, ashed, and cleaned to generate a patterned oxide film. This cycle often consists of 10 or more process steps. Moreover, the resolution of current lithography and etch techniques limit the minimum feature size precluding the direct fabrication of complex geometric structures.
Tags: Thin films, Block copolymers, Nanopatterning/Lithography
| Lee et. al. demonstrated a maskless, additive approach for direct writing of a range of NP–polymer compositions using thermal dip-pen nanolithography (tDPN). This technique represents a facile strategy for deposition of a wide range of NP composite materials in order to create dense nanopatterned films. |
Tags: Advanced Processes + Tools, Dip-pen nanolithography
Molecular Imprints, Inc., the market and technology leader for nanopatterning systems and solutions, introduced the NuTera HD7000—its next-generation Jet and Flash™ Imprint Lithography (J-FIL™) platform for the hard disk drive (HDD) industry. Representing the industry's first nanopatterning system specifically designed for patterned media pilot- and volume-manufacturing, the NuTera HD7000 enables sub-20nm lithography at production speeds and provides the low cost of ownership (CoO) that HDD manufacturers require in order to economically extend their areal density roadmaps to well beyond one terabit per square inch.
Tags: Business + Entrepreneurship, Nanopatterning/Lithography
| Zhang et.al., reported on an approach to synthesize thick mesoporous inorganic oxide films in order to harvest more incident solar radiation, thereby enhancing the efficiency of the solar cell. |
Tags: Advanced Processes + Tools, Thin films, Solar cells
| Zhu, et. al., report on the use of “nanodome” solar cells to simultaneously improve optical absorption and enhance surface cleanliness. The resulting structures have power conversion efficiencies of 5.9%. |
Tags: Advanced Processes + Tools, Solar cells, Nanoparticles, nanodomes
Nanowerk, the leading information provider for all areas of nanotechnologies, added to its nanotechnology information portal a new free service for buyers and vendors of micro- and nanotechnology equipment and services. The new application, called nanoBIDS, is now available. nanoBIDS facilitates the public posting of Requests for Proposal (RFPs) for equipment and services from procurement departments in the micro- and nanotechnologies community. nanoBIDS is open to all research organizations and companies.
