The semiconductor technology alliance comprised of industry giants IBM, Samsung Electronics, Infineon Technologies, Global Foundries, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, and STMicroelectronics have just announced the continuation of their cooperative efforts in the development of efficient and cost-effective semiconductor process technologies. The alliance’s current project involves the development of a semiconductor platform revolving around a 28-nanometer high-k (high dielectric constant) metal oxide gate or HKMG.
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Assistant Prof. Robert McLeod and 4 other team members from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-B) have just discovered a method for shrinking nanotech circuits even further. The CU-Boulder scientists’ nanocircuit production method involves the use of two differently colored lights: an intense, highly focused beam of blue light and a slightly less-focused ultraviolet light that encompasses the blue light in a halo effect. McLeod and company’s use of a secondary, encompassing light is what makes this nanocircuit inscription method revolutionary.
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Since nanotechnology is a relatively young and growing field, it is difficult to look for a nanotechnologist job posted in the newspapers. However, many companies and venture capitalists have heavily invested in this field, resulting in many job opportunities. Shortages in the labor supply have in fact showed up even at the very early phase in the business development of nanotechnology.
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Nanotechnology is currently being used to help in the development of successful drug delivery system as well as in the conduct of nerve regeneration research. Principles from this field are applied to create “smart drugs” – the latest drug therapies that were discovered to cause fewer side effects to the patient. Medical researchers have also explored the possibility of using nanotechnology to detect, diagnose, and treat different forms of cancer, Parkinson’s disease, and other cardiovascular ailments.
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Nanotechnology has continually helped the progress of different industries. The health care industry, for instance, is the primary recipient of the benefits of nanotechnology because researchers already have the ability to control biological structures that are now within a very small size scale. It also helps maintain the national security through the invention of potent biodetection and improved computer security systems.
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The top nanotechnology companies have impressive track records for their involvement in research and development and manufacturing as well as marketing of their respective nanotechnology products and services. Aside from having a good intellectual property situation in nanotechnology, these firms also employ sophisticated engineering processes in manufacturing and producing their products and services in the nanoscale. Most importantly, they also have created a huge impact in the market.
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Nanotechnology deals with the study of materials at the atomic and molecular scales, generally 1 to 100 nanometers, where the properties are different from those at a larger scale. It is an interdisciplinary field of applied science and technology as it involves theories from applied physics, materials science, chemistry, and engineering, among others. It entails the imaging, quantifying, modeling, and controlling matter at a nanometer, which is one-billionth of a meter.
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Nanotechnology is proving to be of great help to the biofuel industry. A joint project between the Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Iowa State University has led to the development of nanofarming, a major algal oil extraction breakthrough. Nanofarming algal oil extraction involves the deployment of nano-scale particles to extract oil from algae. This development is important because presently employed algal extraction methods like expression and hexane extraction kill the algae. Under current technologies, therefore, algae can be used only once and a new batch of algae must be cultivated and harvested to produce a new batch of algal oil.
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