The UK's University of Cambridge and Japan's National Institute for Materials Science have developed single-photon emission devices using layers of graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) [Carmen ...
A group of Texas Tech University researchers led by professors Hongxing Jiang and Jingyu Lin has developed hexagonal boron nitride semiconductor as a possible low-cost alternative to helium gas detectors in neutron detection ('Realization ...
CVD Equipment Corp of Central Islip, NY, USA (a designer and maker of chemical vapor deposition, gas control, and other equipment for developing and manufacturing materials and coatings) has announced the next phase in its industrial ...
North Carolina State University (NCSU) has discovered a new phase of boron nitride (Q-BN) that has potential applications for both manufacturing tools and electronic displays. The researchers have also developed a new technique for creating ...
Tags: cubic boron nitride, Boron Nitride
The University of Nottingham unveiled its new Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) machine, capable of reaching the high temperatures required to grow grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of ...
Tags: Large-Area Graphene Sheets, crystal lattice, Electrical
NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Japan has used a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) layer to release and transfer gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) from sapphire substrate to thermally conducting copper, ...
Tags: Boron Nitride, GaN Transistors
Light can trigger coordinated, wavelike motions of atoms in atom-thin layers of crystal, scientists have shown. The waves, called phonon polaritons, are far shorter than light waves and can be "tuned" to particular frequencies and ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The overall precision surface grinder is a very effective machine tool that is completely capable of very well working to a fine tolerance of plus or minus 0.002 millimetres, or to around plus or minus one ten thousandth part of an inch in ...
The world of two-dimensional (2-D) materials has just gotten a little more crowded. If graphene, boron nitride, molybendum disulfide and silicene weren’t quite enough, we now may have something to join the mix in the 2-D universe that ...
Tags: Borophene, Nature Communications, Scotch Tape, B36
Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
Some people believe that developing new manufacturing techniques for na noscale devices, like new types of epitaxy in which crystals are grown on a substrate, may in fact be more critical to producing the next generations of chips than ...
Tags: two-dimensional hybrid material, graphene, boron nitride
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the UK’s University of Nottingham has purchased two GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems for its School of Physics and ...
Tags: Optoelectronic, Electronics
Veeco Instruments announced that the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, purchased two GENxplor™ R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Systems for its School of Physics and Astronomy. The systems will enable the growth of high ...
Tags: MBE Systems, Lighting
Saint-Gobain Ceramic Materials has added new green tinted coatings to its Combat coating portfolio. The new tinted coating protects surfaces from extreme conditions of high temperature, corrosion or oxidation, while adding a color to ...
Tags: Ceramic Materials, Construction, Decoration, Coating
MucOff's C3 Ceramic Dry chain lube contains UV tracer dye that glows in the dark when lit with an included black light flashlight. The feature allows users to see if they have fully coated their chain with the lube. Besides the UV feature ...
Tags: Transportation, Chain, bike