The room hums to the sound of powerful ventilators. In the pale light, Peter Rimpf pulls a full-body coverall with hood over his clothes, steps into clean room shoes and snaps a nitrile glove onto each hand. “A single flake of skin can destroy a dozen chips,” says Rimpf, who heads operations at the…

– Researchers have developed a design principle enabling the creation of complex patterns on silicon chips by way of microfabrication.
– Thanks to these patterns, vibrations follow predetermined paths.
– A material structured in this manner could harvest energy from vibrations or process signals witho…

Vanessa Wood belongs to those scientists, whom one calls gladly over flier: Yale Absolventin with 22, Doktorin with 26, Professorin with 27 years. In the interview the sympathetic nano- Forscherin tells, what lured her of WITH (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to the ETH - where she work…