Engineering News
Illinois professor elected to National Academy of Engineering
Published Date:February 9, 2012
Photonics pioneer James J. Coleman has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. Coleman is the Intel Alumni Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois.
Published Date: February 9, 2012
Particle-free silver ink prints small, high-performance electronics
Published Date:January 12, 2012
University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a new reactive silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates.
Published Date: January 12, 2012
New technique makes it easier to etch semiconductors
Published Date:December 22, 2011
Creating semiconductor structures for high-end optoelectronic devices just got easier, thanks to University of Illinois researchers. The team developed a method to chemically etch patterned arrays in the semiconductor gallium arsenide, used in solar cells, lasers, light emitting diodes (LEDs), field effect transistors (FETs), capacitors and sensors.
Published Date: December 22, 2011
Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste
Published Date:December 20, 2011
When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip -- or even the whole device -- is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem?
Published Date: December 20, 2011
Let's do the twist: Spiral proteins are efficient gene delivery agents
Published Date:December 15, 2011
Clinical gene therapy may be one step closer, thanks to a new twist on an old class of molecules.
Published Date: December 15, 2011
