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The international micro and nanotechnology program Nanotech is ushering in a particularly cosmopolitan class this year. Of the 38 students accepted into the program, 20 are from Italy and 9 are from France. The rest come from Ukraine, Russia, Greece, Egypt, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In terms of gender representation, however, there is still room for […] >>

Organic materials are damaged by ToF-SIMS spectrometry, due to the high impact energy they are subjected to during exposure to the pulsed beam of ions. The Nanocharacterization Platform has a new piece of equipment that will eliminate this concern. The lab’s new ToF-SIMS spectrometer with argon gas cluster ion beams creates impact energy of just […] >>

Many scientists said it wasn’t possible, but PhD research supervised by LTM and LMGP recently proved the naysayers wrong, demonstrating that electrical current does, in fact, flow through silicon nanonets, unorganized networks of silicon nanowires. The research also looked at a reproducible process for making the nanonets and hybridizing them with strands of DNA. A […] >>

Researchers at Leti have characterized RRAM (resistive random-access memory) in operation, at the nanometric scale, using a transmission electron microscope. And the method they used can be applied to other types of memory. The researchers mapped the on/off states’ structures, compositions, and potentials on a memory whose active layer measures less than 20 nm thick. […] >>

Tissue flap surgery is a technique used in breast and maxillofacial reconstruction. A flap of tissue, which can contain bone, muscle, skin, and fat, is taken from another part of the body, and moved to a new site where the blood vessels are reattached. Because of the risk of clots and tissue death, patients are […] >>