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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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nanotechnology companies, electronics, semiconductors

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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nanotechnology electronics, nanocircuitry