Process R&D

The US Georgia Institute of Technology is working on 'thermochemical nanolithography' (TCNL), a direct-write lithography technique that it claims could be fast enough for commercial chip making.

Following the record breaking flight of Qinetiq’s Zephyr solar powered plane (EW 26/09/07), we spoke to Qinetiq technologist Jonathan Dixon to find out what is inside.

Gordon Moore, the creator of Moore's Law, always harboured an uneasy relationship with the economic formula that bears his name

There is a wider ideal behind Adrian Bowyer’s development of RepRap, a desktop rapid prototyping system. Being able to produce anything that can be designed in a 3D CAD tool is useful – he has samples of a bearing with plastic ball bearings made in a single unit rather than assembled – is useful, but such systems have been available for ...

A researcher at the University of Bath develops a self-replicating, low-cost rapid prototyping system, RepRap, that he plans to distribute under an open source model

Polymertronics, a nanotechnology start-up in Banbury, is developing a technique which will allow digital inkjet printing and instant curing of flexible electronic components

The last remaining member of the Crolles Alliance, STMicroelectronics, will join IBM’s ecosystem to share the costs of semiconductor development down to 22 nanometers and possibly beyond

Two European R&D consortia, Pullnano and More Moore, announce successful results for the 32nm process node last week

The PULLNANO collaborative European R&D project has produced a functional 32nm SRAM as a demonstrator for its 32nm CMOS process expected to be used to make chips in 2010, it was announced from Brussels

The use of organic semiconducting materials other than silicon is a key development for the commercialisation of printed electronic components