Papers – TechConnect Briefs

NANOPOLIS: An Infrastructure for Communication in the Nanotech World

Bog D., Ciontu F., iMediasoft Group, FR

Nanopolis is a distributed knowledge network aiming at transposing today’s knowledge on matter exploration at the atomic scale into a virtual representation space. The project is focused on mitigating the impact of some of the [...]

Nanoinformatics: Emerging Computational Tools in Nano-scale Research

Ruping K., Sherman B.W., Fellow, MIT, US

Over the past several years basic research across several disciplines has revealed the promise of nanotechnology as an applied science in a wide range of industries. This progress has attracted the attention of government granting [...]

Local Electrode Atom Probes for 3-D Metrology

Kelly T., Gribb T., Olson J., Martens R., Shepard J., Wiener S., Kunicki T., Ulfig R., Lenz D., Strennen E., Oltman E., Bunton J., Strait D., Imago Scientific Instruments Corp., US

Imago Scientific Instruments is developing its Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP) microscope for use in semiconductor, data storage, and other nanotechnology industries to provide 3-D atomic-scale metrology. The LEAP microscope achieves true 3-D atomic-scale analysis [...]

UV Laser Micro-Materials Processing Of MEMS, Microfluidics, Sensors, LEDs and Other Miniature Devices

Sercel J.P., JP Sercel Associates, Inc., US

An overview of the types of UV laser processing as applied to the fabrication of miniature devices using advanced UV Excimer and UV DPSS lasers, will be presented. This discussion will include examples of high [...]

Leveraging Mainstream Design and Analysis Tools for MEMS

Mirman I., Flanders D.C., SolidWorks Corporation, US

After several decades spent largely in the research domain, MEMS-based products are finally being commercialized at a furious pace. These products can require extensive mechanical design and analysis capabilities, including: -3D construction and visualization; -material [...]

A New Semiconductor-Wafer Market Based on the Deepening of Surface Undulations to Form Strongly Textured Atomic Ridges (STAR) With Pitches from 0.6 to 5.4 nm: Model Demonstrations in Electronics and the Physical and Life Sciences

Kendall D.L., Kendall M., Kendall D.L., Kendall M., StarMega Corp, US

A broad patent position has been established that produces semiconductor wafers containing physically-deepened grooves, ridges and quantum-dots on particular crystal planes with perfectly spaced pitches of 0.9 to 5.4 nm determined by the inherent crystal [...]

Step and Repeat UV Imprint Process Technology for Wafer-Scale Nano-Manufacturing

Watts M., Truskett V., Choi J., Mackay C., McMackin I., Schumaker N., Schumaker P., Babbs D., Sreenivasan S.V., Schumaker N., Schumaker P., Molecular Imprints, Inc, US

The Step and Flash Imprint Lithography (S-FILTM) process is a step and repeat nano-replication technique based on UV curable low viscosity liquids. S-FIL uses field-to-field drop dispensing of the UV curable liquids for the step [...]

A Novel X-ray Microtomography System with High Resolution and Throughput

Wang Y., Duewer F., Kamath S., Scott D., Yun W., Xradia, Inc., US

X rays is ideally suited for non-destructively imaging micrometer and nanometer sized structures because of its large penetration depth and rich contrast mechanisms. In particular, projection-type x-ray microscopes are widely used in material science and [...]

Realizing Complex Microsystems: A Deterministic Parallel Assembly Approach

Randall J., Hughes G., Geisberger A., Tsui K., Saini R., Ellis M., Skidmore G., Zyvex Corporation, US

The push towards miniaturization has created substantial interest in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). To date, most of the developments regarding MEMS technology have relied on monolithic fabrication and integration. The monolithic approach has successfully produced various [...]

Nanocrystalline Mixed Metal Oxides Novel Oxygen Storage Materials

Sarkas H., Murray P.G., Fay A., Brotzman Jr. R.W., Nanophase Technologies Corporation, US

Nanophase Technologies Corporation employs a new physical vapor synthesis technique to manufacture ceria-based mixed rare earth oxide nanomaterials. The mixed rare earth oxide nanoparticles are dense, discrete crystals. The compositions are solid solutions that remain [...]