Research

Heriot-Watt University has teamed up with ASML to develop new light sources. In a five-year collaboration partly funded by ASML, Professor John Travers’ research into fundamental physics will be accelerated, creating a direct route from lab to market for new laser technologies. The partnership has resulted in a new laboratory at Heriot-Watt University which will accelerate the industrialisation of fundamental ...

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have combined biological smell sensors with an electrochemical electrode system to make a smell sensor. “The sensor could detect concentrations on the order of parts per billion,” according to the university. “This is about a thousand times less than the sensitivity of a dog’s nose but it is an impressive achievement nonetheless and has ...

A team led by Technical University of Munich (TUM) physicists Christoph Utschick and Prof. Rudolf Gross has succeeded in making a coil with superconducting wires capable of transmitting power on the order of more than five kilowatts contactless and with only small losses. Conceivable applications include autonomous industrial robots, medical equipment, vehicles and even aircraft. Contactless power transmission has already ...

Russian scientists working with high-pressure room-temperature superconductors have had an anomalous result that hints at another mechanism for the effect beyond established models. Leading an international team, Artem Oganov (Skoltech and MISIS) and Ivan Troyan (Russian Academy of Sciences) performed theoretical and experimental research on the high-temperature superconductor yttrium hydride (YH6). Over the last few years, extreme pressures have be ...

The NSF (National Science Foundation) in America has provided a report to the US Congress concerning the collapsed Arecibo Observatory and options for future development. It says it will begin plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope, which has served for 57 years as a major resource resource for radio astronomy, planetary, solar system and geospace research. Preliminary analysis, however, indicates ...

Imec has joined up with Austrian startup  Sarcura to develop a silicon chip-based prototype of a cytometer for automated cell separation bringing gene and cell therapy to the next level. Transformative cell therapies, harnessing a patient’s own living immune cells to attack cancer, became a powerful new treatment to cure patients. But despite its unique potential, cell therapy manufacturing remains ...

The imec.icon project DIASTOLE, involving VUB, UZ Brussels and Imec, is paving the way to safely implement 4D scans in cardiac surgery, raising the prospect of heart specialists could being able to test the placement of a new heart valve before surgery. 4D CT scanners add the dimension of time to three-dimensional images and capture the movement of the heart ...

The University of Nottingham is to investigate how sea mussels stick to wet and wave-hit rocks, aiming to use the knowledge to solve engineering problems. What is already known, is that they use collagen-rich sticky threads, ending in adhesive pads known as plaques. And that these plaques work on many different surfaces. The design principles could inspire new ways to ...

Imec and ASML have demonstrated the ultimate single-exposure patterning capability of today’s 0.33NA NXE:3400 EUV lithography. Process optimizations have enabled the patterning of dense 28nm pitch line/spaces with an Inpria metal-oxide resist in one single exposure, relevant for high-volume manufacturing. For the first time, optical and e-beam inspections were correlated with electrical data to gain further insights in improving stochastic defectivity ...

Researchers at University College London have created an OLED that can be applied to skin like a children’s transfer tattoo. So much like a child’s transfer is it, that it is made on the same type of substrate and applied the same way: wet it, stick it, and peel off the backing paper. The OLED starts life as a sheet ...