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Nanowires!
Blog Once you have your nanowires, you can deposit other stuff around them to create transistors that work at extremely small voltage swings, extremely fast. Just in the lunch break (yes! Fed at last! at the IBM Zurich labs show-and-tell day, which as...
[June 24, 2008, 12:41]
Scientists develop 3D nanomaterial
News University of Arkansas chemists announced on Tuesday that they have made nanomaterials accessible as three-dimensional forms by making paper out of titanium oxide nanowires. While two-dimensional freestanding membranes of nanowires have been...
[August 23, 2006, 9:20]
Researchers claim battery-life breakthrough
News The researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to give rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, used in laptops, iPods, video cameras and mobile phones, as much as 10 times more charge.
[January 15, 2008, 8:10]
The future is very, very small, say Intel
News Then, designers will move into the "integrated solutions" era, in which chipmakers will replace the transistor gate with different materials, such as carbon nanotubes or carbon nanowires. By 2014, chips may include transistors constructed with...
[October 25, 2004, 16:55]
Intel forms nanotech alliance to improve memory
News The company is one of the big proponents of silicon nanowires, thin strands of silicon atoms that could replace traditional transistors in chips in a decade or so. Newfangled as they sound, nanowires were first described in a Bell Labs paper...
[January 15, 2004, 13:05]
Photos: Inside IBM's Zurich research lab
News We asked Dr Riess what the most promising materials were for creating nanowires. This particular work, conduced by Dr Walter Riess, the research manager for nanoscale structures and devices, is looking at ways of growing nanowires.
[May 22, 2006, 13:15]
Silicon's successor lurks in the lab
News Silicon nanowires might be less perfect, but they may be easier to integrate into chips," said KJ Cho, a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Other researchers also say that silicon nanowires -- solid microscopic strands of...
[October 20, 2003, 16:05]
Information Capacity of Nanowire Crossbar Switching Networks
White Papers Crossbar switching networks formed by nanowires are promising future data storage devices. This work addresses the fundamental question: What is the information storage capacity of a crossbar switching network?
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
IDF: Where no chip has gone before
News Intel also said that it is working with Harvard and other universities on silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes, two experimental structures made up of, respectively, self-assembling silicon and carbon atoms.
[September 13, 2002, 7:46]
Opportunities and Challenges of III-V Nanoelectronics for Future High-Speed, Low-Power Logic Applications
White Papers Compared to other emerging high-mobility materials, such as, carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires, which require "Bottom-up" chemical synthesis for formation and suffer from the fundamental placement problem, III-V materials are far more...
[July 19, 2007, 1:00]
HP claims nanowire breakthrough for chips
News Researchers from HP Labs plan to publish a paper this month that outlines how it may become possible to substantially increase the performance of certain types of chips, and reduce their power consumption, by replacing the communication wires...
[January 16, 2007, 9:14]
IBM hopes to use DNA to build chips
News Our goal is to use these structures as bread boards on which to assemble carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, quantum dots," said Greg Wallraff, an IBM scientist and a lithography and materials expert working on the project.
[February 20, 2008, 17:33]
IDF: Intel sneaks a peek at new tech
News Its research includes multi-gate transistors, silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes PHOTOS: Rupert Goodwins is exploring IDF for ZDNet UK -- click here to see some of his favourite gadgets from the show so far, and see the moment when Rupert got...
[September 10, 2002, 12:02]
Intel unveils next-gen transistor plans
News This could make transistors easier and more economical to adopt for mass manufacturing than concepts like carbon nanotube transistors and silicon nanowires. Intel plans to show off a prototype transistor this week that could help Moore's Law - and...
[December 8, 2005, 10:00]
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
News IBM is also developing nanotechnology structures, involving nanowires and quantum dot semiconductors, to make photovoltaic cells more efficient. Computing giant IBM is in the process of developing technology that generates solar power more...
[May 16, 2008, 13:20]
Wanted: Successor to flash memory
News The nice thing about this is that it uses some very conventional techniques to produce the (memory) cell itself and the nanowires," Sander said. So-called flash memory will remain viable for several more years, but researchers anticipate that later...
[December 11, 2002, 11:37]
Sight to the blind via silicon?
News In nanotechnology, Toshiba will demonstrate how silicon nanowires can be used for encryption purposes. Chip designers will converge on San Francisco next week to discuss their ideas about new types of flash memory and about bringing sight to the...
[February 13, 2004, 14:40]
Nanotubes break semiconducting record
News Because of this, some researchers say that silicon nanowires -- solid microscopic strands of silicon -- could prove to be a more practical alternative. Semiconducting carbon nanotubes are significantly better at conducting electricity at room...
[December 19, 2003, 9:05]
Dual-core Itanium chip gets airing
News Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing will describe a transistor that combines nanowires and multiple gates. Montecito, Intel's first dual-core chip, will contain nearly two billion transistors but will run cooler than its existing relatives.
[February 7, 2005, 8:10]
Venture capitalists pour money into nanotech
News The company, for example, has partnered with and invested in Nanosys, a company that's working with new materials, called nanowires, that could be used to create semiconductors in the future. At least one venture capitalist believes that...
[March 10, 2004, 8:30]
