he University of Southampton’s striking new Mountbatten Building, which has risen from the ashes of the fire that destroyed its predecessor in 2005, has won a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award. The judges felt that it embodies “21st... (Continue reading)
The principal speakers, representing high-energy physics, condensed matter physics, quantum computing/quantum information, biophysics and astrophysics, will assess the state of their fields and near-term and mid-range prospects. “A seminar of this nature has never been done on the East Coast... (Continue reading)
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)
Today’s applied science facilities must satisfy traditional requirements such as safety and good working conditions, whilst responding to new agendas such as rapidly changing research activities and priorities, and sustainability. A particular challenge is meeting exacting specifications for any or... (Continue reading)
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)
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)
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)
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials. The new design grows optically active semiconductors in... (Continue reading)
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)