Articles tagged with: Nist and Nanoscale

Engineers discover fundamental flaw in transistor theory

Chip manufacturers beware: There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch that makes computer circuits possible. According to the engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist) who discovered the problem, it will soon stand in the way of creating more efficient, lower-powered devices like cell phones and pacemakers unless we solve it.  more

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Nano changes rise to macro importance in a key electronics material

By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist), working with colleagues in other federal labs and abroad, believe they have settled a long-standing debate over the source of the unique electronic properties of a material with potentially great importance for wireless communications.  more

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Cracking a tough nut for the semiconductor industry

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist) have developed a method to measure the toughness - the resistance to fracture - of the thin insulating films that play a critical role in high-performance integrated circuits. The new technique could help improve the reliability and manufacturability of ICs and, better yet, itÃ's one that microelectronics manufacturers can use with equipment they already own.  more

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