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Monolithic Integration

As a loyal reader of The Approach and our steady stream of news stories, you’ve likely heard quite a bit about graphene. The material increasingly is at the forefront of nano and materials research. And for a good reason—this stuff has some seriously cool properties and potential applications. Graphene is a single layer of carbon [...]

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The Science of Squish

Posted by Michael Mullaney.

Think about metal. More specifically, think about a metal component in a Boeing 787, or your other favorite airliner. To make that component, raw metal was heated up and distorted (molded, drilled, carved) into a specific shape. Every step in this production process has an impact on the metal’s nanoscale and microscale structure. Even though we [...]

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Neat and Nano – Part 5

Posted by Michael Mullaney.

Continuing on with our tales from the Rensselaer clean room lab, let’s talk about lighting. More specifically, LEDs. At one stop along the clean room tour, physics doctoral student Christoph Stark, seen above using the Reactive Ion Etch machine, gave us a look at his work on developing high-power green light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. Here’s what Stark [...]