Regular table sugar can help to deposit microchips on new and unconventional surfaces, a researcher has shown in a new article. NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. It ...

A new interface control technique for block co-polymer self-assembly could provide long-sought method for making even tinier patterns on microchips with lines just 9 nanometers wide. For the last few ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For the last few decades, microchip manufacturers have been on a quest to find ways to make the patterns of wires and components in their microchips ever smaller, in order to fit ...

(Nanowerk News) NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. It was only as a last resort that he had even tried burying microscopic magnetic dots in hardened chunks of sugar ...

NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. It was only as a last resort that he had even tried burying microscopic magnetic dots in hardened chunks of sugar — hard candy, ...