Session ends with significant legislation

Session ends with significant legislation
By: James Nord It took a few hours of overtime, but the Minnesota Legislature finally finished their work last week, closing a session that saw mammoth budget deficits, Supreme Court rulings and purple-clad stadium proponents. The session ended in an hours-long special session that was necessary to finalize a bill closing the gap on the state’s roughly $3 billion budget deficit. Earlier this …

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Suicides roil factory in China

Suicides roil factory in China
Nine workers at a computer component maker have killed themselves this year. Psychologists and monks have been called in; there are now punching bags. Experts cite an expectation gap of young workers. Psychologists and Buddhist monks have come to console workers. There is a suicide hotline, piped-in music and a stress-release center where workers are invited to hit a punching bag with a picture …

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Carbon Nanotubes Field Emission Diode: Nanoelectronic Device

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A fully integrated field emission diode (FED) using carbon nanotubes as electron field emitter was constructed. The device was designed and fabricated on a glass substrate by screen-printing thick film technique. The FED was operated at 100 V for giving a forward current density of 180 mA/cm2. A leakage current of 1 pA was measured then a 1000 V reverse voltage was applied, indicating that a high voltage blocking capability was obtained from such a device. From theoretical calculation and experimental results, the FED can be operated in megahertz due to very high speed of electrons traveling through them vacuum gap on forward operation and a small residue capacitance as well as minimum the reverse recovery time on reverse operation. The high performance of the novel FED was fabricated by a cost effective process combined with nanomaterials which opens up a route to produce miniaturized vacuum devices and new applications for such kind of the integrated vacuum microelectronic device.

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Interface Controlled Organic Thin Films

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Organic semiconductors are a central topic of advanced materials research. The book is aiming at bridging the gap between the development and production of devices and basic research on thin film characterisation using cutting-edge techniques in surface and interface science. Topics involve organic molecular-based sensors; interfaces in organic diodes and transistors; mobility in organic field effect transistors and space charge problems; integration of optoelectronic nanostructures; nonlinear optical properties of organic nanostructures; the wetting layer problem; how to get from functionalized molecules to nanoaggregates; optical, electrical and mechanical properties of organic nanofibers as well; as near field investigations of organic thin films.

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CMOS-MEMS: Advanced Micro and Nanosystems

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Microstructures, electronics, nanotechnology – these vast fields of research are growing together as the size gap narrows and many different materials are combined. Current research, engineering sucesses and newly commercialized products hint at the immense innovative potentials and future applications that open up once mankind controls shape and function from the atomic level right up to the visible world without any gaps.

Sensor systems, microreactors, nanostructures, nanomachines, functional surfaces, integrated optics, displays, communications technology, biochips, human/machine interfaces, prosthetics, miniaturized medical and surgery equipment and many more opportunities are being explored.

This new series, Advanced Micro and Nano Systems, provides cutting-edge reviews from top authors on technologies, devices and advanced systems from the micro and nano worlds.

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