University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...

Paul Otellini shows off 22-nanometer silicon to the IDF crowd and talks of moving Intel's Atom technology beyond Netbooks to places like car dashboards. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer ...

In 2010, the chip giant plans to base much of its business growth on the newest 32-nanometer chip technology. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, ...

(Nanowerk News) Tunnelling is one of most fundamental processes in quantum mechanics, where the wave packet could traverse a classically insurmountable energy barrier with a certain probability.

Applied Materials is harnessing the atom to build better chips. The manufacturer of chipmaking equipment said Monday that its latest product will incorporate a technique called atomic layer deposition ...

The electronic chip and the Van der Waals complex with an internuclear distance 0.39 nm. In combination with the improved Coulomb-corrected strong-field approximation (ICCSFA) method developed by the ...