Advanced Manufacturing – Page 53

New Product Development for Nanomaterials Systems and Solutions

In the past several years there has been a tremendous increase in activities in the field of Nanomaterials Technology. This recent increase in activity is a result of improved analytical methods which allow scientists and [...]

Application-Driven Fine Particle Solutions

Oljaca M., Atanassova P., Shen J.P., Haubrich S., Hampden Smith M., Kodas T., Cabot Corporation, US

The continuous push for performance enhancement in important existing and emerging applications has generated substantial interest in engineered fine particles. There are many examples of the improved optical, electronic, and physical properties achieved by controlling [...]

Nanotechnology Platforms for Commercialization

Rae A., NanoDynamics Inc., US

Much of the publicity surrounding nanotechnology covers leading-edge applications with the potential to create tremendous disruptive changes in key industries such as semiconductors. Whilst the intensive support of these projects is critical, nearer-term opportunities must [...]

Nano- and Microfabricated Products from Self-Organized Anodic Alumina

Routkevitch D., Synkera Technologies, US

Synkera's product development efforts are based on nano- and microstructured materials and advanced methods for their integration into functional devices (www.synkera.com). We offer two main product groups. The first is a broad group of chemical [...]

A Novel Battery Architecture Based on Superhydrophobic Nanostructured Materials

Lifton V.A., Simon S., mPhase Technologies, US

Everyone uses batteries. They come in many sizes, shapes, power densities, and support a wide variety of military, commercial and consumer applications. Therefore, it is surprising how little battery technology has changed since the 1960s [...]

Nanotechnology: Novel Product Development

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 [...]