Posts Tagged ‘Berkeley’

Semiconductor Research Corporation and University of North Texas Establish Center to Focus on Semiconductor Manufacturing

Semiconductor Research Corporation and University of North Texas Establish Center to Focus on Semiconductor Manufacturing

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and the University of North Texas (UNT) today announced the formation of a new research center focused on the fundamental understanding of advanced plasma processes and... (Continue reading)

Purdue ‘nanoHUB’ tops 100,000 annual users, popularity growing

Purdue 'nanoHUB' tops 100,000 annual users, popularity growing

Researchers and educators from New York to London and Moscow to Madrid are logging onto nanoHUB.org because it offers a wide range of nanotech-related content. “Attracting 100,000 users in a single year demonstrates the practical utility of nanoHUB,” said Gerhard Klimeck,... (Continue reading)

Nanotechnology Keynote Speaker Announced for ESTECH 2010

Nanotechnology Keynote Speaker Announced for ESTECH 2010

The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) is proud to announce that Tim Sands, the Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University, will be the keynote speaker for ESTECH 2010, the... (Continue reading)

World’s Smallest Semiconductor Laser Heralds New Era In Optical Science

World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser Heralds New Era In Optical Science

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world’s smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light in a space smaller than a single protein molecule. This breakthrough,... (Continue reading)

Tunable Semiconductors Are Possible With Hot New Material Called Graphene

Tunable Semiconductors Are Possible With Hot New Material Called Graphene

Today’s transistors and light emitting diodes (LED) are based on silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors, which have fixed electronic and optical properties. Now, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown that a form of carbon called graphene has an electronic structure... (Continue reading)