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Nanolithography with Nanowire Arrays
Published Thursday, January 7, 2010BackgroundIntegrated circuits are used in nearly all electronic equipment currently in production. Also known as microchips, they control everything from computers to cell phones to microwave ovens. The performance of these chips depends on features that are only a few tens of nanometers across and that can be assembled in extremely close...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Industrial Processing, Engineering, Materials
Keyword(s): circuits, photon, nano, computer, chip
Docket: LS-2009-123
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Electroacoustic Wave for Enhancing Heat Transport in Nanofluids (Colloids)
Published Monday, July 27, 2009Downscaling or miniaturization has been a recent major trend in modern science and technology. Engineers now fabricate microscale devices such as microchannel heat exchangers and micropumps that are the size of dust specks. Further major advances would be obtained if the coolant flowing in the microchannels were to contain nanoscale particles to...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): Nanofluids, heat transfer, 525
Docket: PS-2005-077
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Microfluidic Mass Spectrometer Utilizing Protein Nanopores
Published Sunday, May 17, 2009NOT REVIEWED BY INVENTORArtificial BLMs have been widely used to investigate fundamental electrophysiology kinetics including ion channel formation and transduction. Standard macro-scale approaches suffer from well known issues, mainly poor BLM lifetimes, laborious formation techniques, and limited data collection throughput. Recently...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Devices, Microfluidics
Keyword(s): microfluidic mass spectrometer protein nanopores
Docket: PS-2007-067
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Anisotropic Electroconductive Adhesive Film
Published Wednesday, May 13, 2009With the advent of the multimedia society, the development is progressing on a variety of electronic devices capable of quickly and easily retrieving, processing and transmitting large quantities of information, such as video information. These devices require high-density packaging, weight reductions and cost reductions. As a packaging method...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Chemical
Keyword(s): electroconductive adhesive film nanowire
Docket: PS-2006-086
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Stimuli-Responsive Mesoporous Nanomaterials
Published Wednesday, April 29, 2009BackgroundCurrent chemotherapy treatments are effective in eradicating cancer cells, but the lack of tissue specificity severely limits the dosage that may be used to combat the disease. Traditionally, chemotherapy drugs have achieved selectivity by disabling processes that occur more frequently in cancer tissues than in healthy tissues. This...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Imaging devices
Keyword(s): chemotherapy, cancer, mesoporous particles, nanomaterials
Docket: LS-2008-025
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high-powered Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
Published Tuesday, September 2, 2008Recently, coaxial nanowires have attracted attention due to their added synergic properties (e.g. high conductivity) or functionalities (e.g. core/shell p-n junction) arising from the combination of different materials. However, till date, a step-wise synthetic approach has been taken for manufacturing these coaxial nanowires, i.e., metal oxide...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Power Electronics, Chemical
Keyword(s): nanowire, supercapacitor, battery, storage
Docket: PS-2007-117
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Method for Photolithographic Fabrication with Resolution Far Below the Diffraction Limit
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008The resolution of conventional photolithographic techniques is limited largely by diffraction limitations to be on the order of half the wavelength of the light employed. Methods such as chemical amplification can improve the resolution of photoresists to some extent, but it is still difficult to attain a resolution of better than approximately...
Categories: Chemical, Microelectronics, Materials, Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): photolithography, 525
Docket: PS-2007-036
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Positioning Quantum Dots in Devices by Electroosmotic Feedback Control
Published Wednesday, May 7, 2008Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are ideal candidates for storing and manipulating quantum information. To perform scalable quantum computation and long distance quantum networking requires the ability to deterministically position and fix many QDs into a single device, and ability that is currently not available. Such integration would enable one...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Engineering, Devices
Keyword(s): positioning quantum dots electro-osmotic feedback control
Docket: PS-2007-118
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Lateral Two-Terminal Nanotube Devices and Method for their Formation
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a method to enhance the efficiency of energy capture, storage, and delivery. Applications include solar energy capture, energy storage in capacitors and batteries, and integration of capture and storage elements within a thin film process technology to provide high performance energy/power...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials
Keyword(s): Nanotubes, nanopores, 525
Docket: PS-2007-090
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A New Approach to Contacting Nanowire Arrays Using Nanoparticles
Published Wednesday, April 18, 2007Despite significant advancements in nanowire growth techniques and device descriptions, establishment of electrical contacts to nanowire assemblies through non-destructive methods has not yet been successfully realized. The commonly employed method involves physically removing nanowires through some form of lithography. Such a series of steps are...
Categories: Nanotechnology + Nanoparticles + Nanomaterials, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): Nanowires, 525
Docket: PS-2007-031