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ASM has unveiled a carbon film that fills trenches and flattens the surface in a single PECVD process, and says early production adoption has begun. We trace its development since 2023 and look at the performance figures that remain undisclosed.
A three-dimensional porous carbon structure called 'diamondyne,' theoretically predicted 35 years ago, has been synthesized for the first time via a liquid-liquid interfacial reaction. Yet what researchers actually obtained were roughly 10 nm microcrystals scattered within an amorphous film, leaving high barriers to measuring true porosity or achieving bulk crystallization.
As the U.S. targets a 300GW expansion of nuclear power by 2050, Argonne National Laboratory is partnering with Oklo, Deep Isolation, and SHINE Technologies to accelerate commercialization of spent nuclear fuel recycling. Using pyroprocessing and centrifugal extraction, the initiative aims to shrink the required management period for high-level radioactive waste from 100,000 years to just centuries.
U.S.-based Muon Space achieved the first-ever in-orbit ignition of a solid-zinc Hall-effect thruster aboard its dedicated demonstration satellite, SERT-III. By completely eliminating high-pressure gas tanks in favor of a cheap, non-toxic solid metal propellant stable at room temperature, the company aims to dramatically streamline small-satellite manufacturing costs and launch-site operations.
China's NAURA presented a SiGe/Si selective etching technology for 3D DRAM at CSTIC 2026, claiming over 500x selectivity at 64 layers—but the equipment model, throughput, and CXMT adoption remain undisclosed and unverified.
Helical Fusion's conditional selection is examined as one of four approaches chosen under a government program, not a ¥60 billion grant to a single company, alongside a look at what HTS magnet test data show about the remaining integration hurdles before net electricity generation.
An explainer on the optics behind Roman Space Telescope's Hubble-class mirror and wide, repeated sky surveys, its approach to planet-hunting and dark-energy measurement, and what its technology means—and its limits—for future direct-imaging missions.
Samsung Electronics has published a paper in JVST A on the challenges of extending atomic layer etching (ALE) — a technology with production experience since 2017 — into low-k material processing. This piece examines the technique's 90-degree vertical profile advantage, the new hurdle of chemical damage, and how it differs from Japanese company SAMCO's approach.
US company Interlune says it implanted helium into simulated ilmenite soil and reproduced heat-release characteristics matching Apollo lunar samples. The advance moves hardware development forward, but peer review and verification with actual helium-3 remain outstanding challenges.
Pacific Fusion has broken ground on a $1 billion fusion research facility in Albuquerque. The company aims to exceed 100 megajoules and achieve net facility gain by 2030, though commercial power generation and national security applications will require separate demonstrations and agreements.
