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New technique could slash energy use in making silicon

October 13, 2017

A chemistry professor has come up with a more sustainable way to make silicon at much lower temperatures for the kind of advanced batteries used in electronics such as phones, cameras and laptop computers.

Advanced nano-cutter boosts emerging materials research at UW–Madison

September 15, 2016

The unique machine, the first of its kind in North America, is capable of milling in three dimensions with nanometer precision.

New computer chip manufacturing method squeezes more onto limited wafer space

September 6, 2016

Computer chip makers continuously strive to pack more transistors in less space, yet as the size of those transistors approaches the atomic scale, there are physical limits on how small they are able to make the patterns for the circuitry.

For first time, carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon

September 2, 2016

For decades, scientists have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power. Now, for the first time, University of Wisconsin–Madison materials engineers have created carbon nanotube transistors that outperform state-of-the-art silicon transistors.

Nanosheet growth technique could revolutionize nanomaterial production

January 27, 2016

Tiny sheets of the semiconductor zinc oxide could have huge implications for the future of a host of electronic and biomedical devices.