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Nanoscale microscope on a chip

New Scientist recently reported that a UK company is developing a microscope on a chip four times more powerful than the best scanning electron microscopes SEMs available today. The best SEMs have a resolution of 0.05 nanometer. This new one, which will be small enough to fit onto a fingertip,...

Tags: Microscope, Electron, Scientist, Chip, Scanning Electron Microscope, NFAB, Microscope Body, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-16

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Quantum holographic storage: it works!

Quantum holographic storage: it works!Star Wars Geeks building a HolocronA new attempt. The old way used different colored lasers to store information in a artificial crystal. but I think this one will work better as long as the material stays stable.the crystal idea was a cube and was multi-layered...

Tags: holographic storage, storage, Quantum Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Quantum holographic storage: it works!

Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated quantum holographic storage, shattering long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter. Moving into the sub-atomic realm, they permanently stored 35 bits in the quantum space surrounding a single electron. Moreover, the technique allows holograms to be "stacked" in 3 dimensions....

Tags: Electron, Hologram, Quantum Corp., Beam, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-02-03

Nanoparticles used to trap oil drops

Rice University researchers have found a new way to spontaneously assemble nanoparticles into bag-like sacs. Their 'nanobatons' could be used to clean up oil spills by trapping oil droplets in polluted waters. These nanoparticles could even be more useful for delivering drugs. The researchers found that 'ultraviolet light and magnetic...

Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Researcher, Nanoparticle, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-31

Taking images of individual atoms in color

Researchers at Cornell University are using a new kind of scanning transmission electron microscope STEM to take pictures of individual atoms in color for the first time. It seems odd, but 'the current generation of electron microscopes can be thought of as expensive black and white cameras where different atoms...

Tags: Microscope, Atom, Researcher, Electron, Cornell University, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-22

100 GB memory chip coming in 2009

Bytes, not bits. Oh, and it's fast, too. Nanochip, a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor firm, just received $14 million in funding to complete work on a 100 GB storage chip. Intel Capital, who should know something about chips, is an investor. The goal: ". . . allow Nanochip to...

Tags: Memory Chip, Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-01-22

NanoArt online competition of 2008

Like last year, the NanoArt International Online Competition has started. In case you don't remember, NanoArt is 'a new art discipline related to micro/nanosculptures created by artists/scientists through chemical/physical processes and/or natural micro/nanostructures that are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscope and Atomic Force Microscope.' You can...

Tags: Canvas, Work, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-13

Building 3-D particles with light

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT have used ultraviolet light to create mass-producing 3-D microparticles that could be used for medical diagnostics and tissue engineering. 'For example, they could be designed to act as probes to detect certain molecules, such as DNA, or to release drugs or nutrients.'...

Tags: 3D, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Particle, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Self-powered nanowires

Many research teams around the world are building nanodevices of some kind. But these very small devices need very small sources of power to be fully functional. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have shown that a single nanowire can produce power by harvesting mechanical energy...

Tags: Researcher, Voltage, Yu, Voltage Generation, Team Management, Nanotechnology, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-29

Faster memories made of nanowires

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed self-assembling nanowires which will allow to access data 1,000 times faster than current technologies such as Flash memory. They've used nanowires made of germanium, antimony and tellurium which can switch between amorphous and crystalline structures -- the equivalent of 0's and 1's....

Tags: Memory, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-19

The most powerful microscope in the world

A new microscope developed by the TEAM Project (Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, has recorded the highest-resolution images ever seen (0.05 nanometer and below). This is equivalent to a quarter of the diameter of a carbon atom. This microscope will be delivered to the...

Tags: Team, Microscope, TEAM Project, TEAM Microscope, TEAM Instrument, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-14

What is nanopantography?

If you don't know the answer, I cannot blame you. After all, a query for 'nanopantography' on Google returns only 43 results as I'm typing this. But researchers from the University of Houston say that nanopantography can create billions of nanotech devices in hours. The idea behind the technology is...

Tags: Technique, Ion, University Of Houston, Wafer, Nanotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-05

IBM's Art of Invention

The 'Art of Invention' is the name of an exhibit which opened last week at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. This exhibit, which will last one year, is featuring 70 works of art created through inventions, patents and trademarks. Two of these works have been provided...

Tags: Exhibit, Electron, Corral, Image, IBM Corp., Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Nanowire photodetectors

According to researchers at the University of California at San Diego UCSD, semiconducting nanowires can be used to build perfect light detectors with single-photon sensitivity. The zinc oxide ZnO nanowires theyve used are ideally suited to develop "new photodetector architectures for sensing, imaging, memory storage, intrachip optical communications and other...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet

Blog posts 2007-04-29

Super-light crystals for clean energy?

Californian chemists have designed the worlds lowest-density crystals for use in clean energy. These new materials, known as covalent organic frameworks or COFs, have such a low density (0.17 grams per cubic centimeter) that a single gram could cover an area of 4,500 square meters. These COFs could be used...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Energy &, Environment, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-04-16

A nano two-wheeler

According to New Scientist, French and German researchers have built a nanoscale machine with two wheels of a diameter of 0.8 nanometers joined by an axle of only four carbon atoms long. It has been done before, but this time, the nanoscientists have been able to really watch these nano-wheels...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature, axle, Free University

Blog posts 2007-01-29

The NanoArt contest

If you dont know what to do this Sunday, you should visit the NanoArt gallery and vote for your preferred nanoartwork. But what is NanoArt? This is "a new art discipline related to micro/nanosculptures created by artists/scientists through chemical/physical processes and/or natural micro/nanostructures that are visualized with powerful research tools...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, NanoArt

Blog posts 2007-01-07

Piano nanowires

Dutch researchers have made what they call the worlds smallest piano wire. In fact, these wires are made of carbon nanotubes measuring approximately 1 micrometer long and approximately 2 nanometers in diameter. After attaching these nanotubes to electrodes and applying alternating current of various frequencies, the nanotubes started to vibrate...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, nanotube

Blog posts 2006-11-28

Nanoknives to cut cells

American researchers have built a carbon nanotube knife. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, this nanoknife will be used to cut and study cells. With this new tool, scientists and biologists will be able to make 3D images of cells and tissues for electron tomography, which...

Tags: Nanotechnology, nanotube, NIST, carbon nanotube, MWCNT

Blog posts 2006-11-24

The nanopowers of spinach

Ohio University physicists have used a simple molecule of chlorophyll taken from spinach to develop a complex nanobiological switch. They used a scanning tunneling microscope STM to image chlorophyll-a and then injected it with a single electron to manipulate the molecule into four positions. The researchers say this biological switch...

Tags: conformation, Ohio University, molecule, scanning tunneling microscope

Blog posts 2006-09-09