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Nanotubes Set To Take Off
News Carbon Nanotechnologies (CNI), the company that produces carbon nanotubes for IBM and various research institutions, plans to expand production over the next two years, in a move that could help jumpstart commercial deployment of nanotubes.
[September 12, 2003, 12:40]
Nanotubes Break Semiconducting Record
News Semiconducting carbon nanotubes are significantly better at conducting electricity at room temperature than any other known material, according to recent tests at the University of Maryland. The findings are the latest evidence that nanotubes could...
[December 19, 2003, 9:05]
Intel Researches Nanotubes For Chip Designs
News Intel is eyeing carbon nanotubes as a possible replacement for copper wires inside semiconductors, a switch that one day could eliminate some big problems for chipmakers. The chip giant has managed to create prototype interconnects — microscopic...
[November 13, 2006, 10:59]
Nanotubes Shed New Light On Fibre Optics
News In the more immediate future, nanotubes could be employed to create corrosion-resistant paint or to improve fuel cells or batteries. Scientists at IBM Research have discovered a new way to get carbon nanotubes to emit light, a breakthrough that...
[May 2, 2003, 7:57]
Swinging Nanotubes Point Way To Next-generation RAM
News Using carbon nanotubes a billionth of a metre in diameter sprinkled onto a silicon wafer, the device has been made using mostly standard chip production techniques. NRAM works by balancing the nanotubes on ridges of silicon.
[June 13, 2003, 14:37]
Intel Seeks Nanotubes' Cooling Potential
News Intel is conducting research with nanotechnology provider Zyvex to see if carbon nanotubes can help dissipate the pent-up heat inside PCs. The research revolves around incorporating carbon nanotubes into thermal grease, which makes up the thin...
[February 27, 2004, 8:55]
Cycle Parts Emerge From Carbon Nanotubes
News Sports equipment maker Easton Sports plans to start producing bicycle components constructed out of carbon nanotubes in 2005, in another step forward for the budding nanotechnology industry. Easton said on Wednesday that it will use nanotubes from...
[September 2, 2004, 10:55]
Carbon Nanotubes Rise Up Food Chain
News A large semiconductor maker has signed a deal with Nantero to use its technology for making memory with carbon nanotubes, in the second licensing agreement for the nanotechnology start-up. Nantero has come up with a way to make transistors, the on...
[July 2, 2004, 9:10]
Handel By Nanotube
Blog Spintronics and nanotubes. Nanotubes by comparison don't integrate well with silicon but do work happily at room temperature. If you want to know where the big news in fundamental electronics will be, I can tell you.
[November 1, 2007, 17:22]
Moore Has Trouble Seeing Past Silicon
News Although many believe the future of the computing industry lies with building chips out of carbon nanotubes or other novel materials, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted it won't be easy to replace silicon.
[March 10, 2005, 8:30]
Nanotech Display Shown Off By Motorola
News Motorola has built a working prototype of a new colour display that uses numerous tiny filaments called carbon nanotubes, a design the company argues is superior to existing flat-panel technology. This is the first milestone that shows we can make...
[May 9, 2005, 11:20]
Nanotube Breakthrough Paves Path For Carbon Chips
News Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and a method of testing them -- two significant steps that could help pave the way for carbon chips.
[January 8, 2004, 7:50]
Carbon Nanotube Radio Hints At Future Wireless
News US researchers have created a radio using carbon nanotubes so tiny it can fit on a grain of sand, showing how nanotubes could soon be used to make more efficient electronic devices. Rodgers noted, however, that the device is merely a demonstration...
[January 31, 2008, 11:39]
IBM Brings Nanotube Revolution Closer
News Researchers at IBM have revealed a new process for fabricating carbon nanotubes for incorporation into processors, a discovery that could lead to more powerful computers in the coming decades. The shift could improve the manufacturing yields of...
[September 30, 2002, 10:49]
IBM Reaches Nano-computing Breakthrough
News IBM researchers have created transistors out of carbon nanotubes that can outperform similar silicon transistors, a development that helps build the case that carbon may one day become a building block of computing.
[May 20, 2002, 8:38]
Silicon's Successor Lurks In The Lab
News Nanotubes "heal" themselves by shifting to replace atoms that get removed. In chips, nanotubes could lead to transistors that switch off and on much faster than today's silicon variety. In a relatively short time, carbon nanotubes -- thin tubes of...
[October 20, 2003, 16:05]
Fujitsu Siemens Lays Out Nanotech Roadmap
News Microprocessors that use carbon nanotubes rather than copper wires to connect layers of transistors may be available in less than a decade, according to Fujitsu Siemens. With carbon nanotubes there is much less risk of interference.
[March 10, 2005, 15:20]
Nanotech Merger Creates Patent Powerhouse
News CNI is one of the leading proponents of carbon nanotubes, thin strands of pure carbon that can be used to strengthen plastics or create semiconductors. IBM and NEC own the basic patents to the nanotube, but CNI has about 30 patents that revolve...
[December 23, 2004, 10:50]
Tiny Tubes Mean Big Chip Advances
News Sumio Iijima, a researcher with NEC, discovered nanotubes in 1991. The development in nanotechnology, the manipulation of molecular structures, will allow IBM to more easily create groups of transistors from tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes.
[April 27, 2001, 10:22]
Thunderbolt And Lightning, Very Very... Cooling?
News Mechanical engineers at Purdue have filed patents for technologies that eventually could be used to create a device that would cool computer chips by generating lightning and wind on a microscopic level using carbon nanotubes.
[March 26, 2004, 12:45]
