22 nanometer lithography has been performed with EUV (extreme Ultra Violet Light). (H/T Sander Olson) Fully functional 22nm CMOS SRAM cells of 0.099µm² density have been fabricated at IMEC using ASML’s EUV Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). The new cells are 47% smaller than IMEC’s 0.186µm² cell produced at the 32nm node last year. The results …
A university lecturer has succeeded in regenerating hair on mice using embryonic stem cells, an achievement that could pave the way for the development of treatments for conditions including hair loss, it has been learned. This could lead to a baldness cures for humans and eventually to improved regeneration and healing of other organs in …
Foresight highlighted two important research developments. MIT can use to heat to get the edges of Graphene to Atomic Precision and scientists at the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were able to observe carbon atoms moving around the edges of a hole punched in a graphene crystal. Live Action …
From MIT Technology Review, the University of Maryland has early stage research, the device will have to be scaled up to be practical, but initial results show that new nanoscale supercapacitors can store 100 times more energy than previous devices of its kind. The arrays’ storage capacity is about 100 microfarads per square centimeter. The …
Real construction work on the China’s Sanman AP1000 nuclear reactors should begin within one month. The result will be the first Westinghouse-designed AP1000 pressurized water reactors in the world, ahead of the others at Haiyang in Shandong province and more expected in the UK and the USA. Site preparation at Sanmen in Zhejiang province is …
Quantum Computers, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Supercomputers1. 128 qubit quantum computer chips are built and cooled to milliKelvins. If they prove out they should be scaled to 2000 qubits this year. Scaling up means filling up the semiconductor die using the same modular design that they already have. Commercial customers are starting to use them …
Recent astronomy news. There are 3 trillion stars in the Milky Way. The Milky way is about 8 times bigger than was thought. We still have a shaky understanding of our own galaxy as refined measurements of star speed in the arms indicates that the volume is about 8 times more than was previously believed. …
One of cancer’s cleverest tricks is its ability to hide from the immune system. A new approach to cancer treatment called immunotherapy could spare patients at least some of the grueling battery of chemotherapy treatments by retraining the body’s own defenders–the cells of the immune system–to recognize and destroy tumors. Now researchers at Harvard University …
From Transterrestrial: 1. Jay Penn of Aerospace described a proposed a 125kW laser beaming demonstrator , that could scale up to 200kW with technology insertion. The system would be self-lifting from LEO to GEO using ion propulsion, to save mass. 2. Jordin Kare discussed on laser diode power beaming that will be used at the …
Engineers at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have whipped up, for the first time, permanent nanoscale bubbles—bubbles that endure for more than a year—from batches of foam made from a mixture of glucose syrup, sucrose stearate, and water. Future applications of these microbubbles could significantly extend the lifetimes of common gas-liquid products …
IBM has shifted cell processors to 65 nanometers and improved double precision performance by up to five times (PowerXCell 8i processors). Double precision performance is very important for scientific and supercomputing applications. New PowerXCell 8i processors in QS22 blades have :● 460 single precision (SP) GFLOPS/217 double precision (DP) GFLOPS per blade ● 6.4/3.0 TFLOPS …