"MAGNETIC: Chips from magnetoresistive material"
Magnetoresistive materials being developed by researchers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory may offer a promising alternative to the semiconductor industry's current chip-making processes. Instead of relying on atomic accuracy, theorists say that the researchers, who have harnessed nanoscale imperfections in a material, could use it as a thin film for chip fabrication.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031124S0054

"NANOTECH: Nano research eyes ink jet-printed NanoProducts Corp. lab researchers have begun work on nanoscale devices that may lead to the formation of "plastic" circuit elements and circuit "sheets" fabricated with ink jet printers within three years. The company's researchers have started the evolution toward such products by integrating nanoscale materials with existing micron-sized devices and composites, enhancing their performance and lowering their cost.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031117S0066

"QUANTUM: Quantum-key encryption system ships"
Magiq Technologies Inc. today announced commercial availability of its quantum-key distribution and encryption system. The Navajo Security Gateway, which offers unbreakable encryption over existing fiber-optic lines, will initially be available only to U.S. companies and agencies, the company said.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031117S0068

"NANOTECH: Nanowires formed using extrusion technique"
A newly discovered natural way to form nanoscale wires from bulk droplets could simultaneously cut their cost and increase yields. The discovery could also lead to advances in composite materials, electronics and pharmaceuticals, researchers said.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031117S0086

"S�curit� accr�e des r�seaux en fibres optiques gr�ce � un nouveau syst�me cryptographique"
Un syst�me de cryptage et de distribution de cl�s quantiques, mis au point par Magiq Technologies Inc. et baptis� le Navajo Security Gateway, devrait permettre un cryptage ind�chiffrable sur les r�seaux en fibres optiques existants. Ce nouveau syst�me cryptographique sera, dans un premier temps, uniquement disponible aux soci�t�s et organismes des Etats-Unis, indique un communiqu� publi� par la soci�t�.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031112S0002

"SENSOR: Biosensor funded for terror war"
A wide net that has been cast to create integrated bio- and chemical-agent sensors following terrorist threats on U.S. territory has reeled in a novel handheld biological-warfare agent design. The handheld device, which recently got the green light from the National Science Foundation, is based on a prototype sensor developed at the University of Buffalo. The unit combines an LED with protein-imprinted xerogels with integrated emission sites (Pixies) and a CMOS detector.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031110S0063

"NANOTECH: Nanosprings breakthrough shrinks size of sensors"
Quantum dots, nanowires and other nanoscale structures populate the frontier of semiconductor research, collectively aimed at downsizing chip components to the molecular scale. So far piezoelectric materials have been used to fabricate nanowires and nanobelts (ring-shaped nanowires) for experimental nanoscale lasers, field-effect transistors, gas sensors, cantilevers and resonators. But none of these have been "single crystal" and therefore only partially exploit the piezoelectric phenomenon, according to one research scientist, who now claims to have fabricated the world's first single-crystal nanosprings that not only outperform predecessors but also promise to enable single-molecule sensors.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031106S0025

"OPTICS: U.S. project targets optical links for future supercomputers"
Seeking to boost strategically important supercomputing, the Energy Department has awarded a $20 million contract to an IBM-Corning research team to develop optically-switched interconnects for supercomputers. The 30-month contract for optical interconnect research was awarded Tuesday (Nov. 4) to the team of IBM Research (Yorktown, N.Y. and Zurich, Switzerland) and Corning's Science & Technology Division (Corning, N.Y.). The project to develop high-speed, optically switched interconnects for supercomputers combines IBM's electronic control circuity with Corning's all-optical switching technology.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031105S0029

"NANOTECH: Nanocell used for molecular logic, memory"
Integrated circuits all depend on lockstep, unerring, nanoscale accuracy in their fabrication. Now Rice University researchers have challenged that wisdom by demonstrating that molecule-sized electronic devices can be used for both logic and memory, despite being randomly wired, error-prone and inaccurately formed at the nanoscale.
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Text: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20031103S0026