November 7, 2008 - Technology News
Tiny Solar Cells Built To Power Microscopic Machines
Some of the tiniest solar cells ever built have been successfully tested as a power source for even tinier microscopic machines. An article in ...
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November 5, 2008 - Technology News
Breaking Barriers For Next Generation Wireless Chips
The Mathematical Institute of the University of Cologne conducts research within in the European project ICESTARS. New mathematical algorithms ...
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November 4, 2008 - Technology News
Stretching Silicon: A New Method To Measure How Strain Affects Semiconductors
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists have developed a method of measuring how strain affects thin films of silicon that ...
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October 27, 2008 - Technology News
Memoirs Of A Qubit: Hybrid Memory Solves Key Problem For Quantum Computing
An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the ...
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October 14, 2008 - Technology News
Significant Process In Creating 3D Stacked Integrated Chips
IMEC, Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research institute has announced that it has made significant progress with its 3D-SIC (3D ...
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October 9, 2008 - Technology News
New Material Could Act As Nanofridge For Microchips In Smaller And Faster Computers
Researchers in Spain have developed a material which could act as a nanofridge for computers, thus eliminating the barrier posed by ...
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September 10, 2008 - Technology News
Better Organic Semiconductors For Printable Electronics
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Seoul National University (SNU) have learned how to tweak a new class ...
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September 9, 2008 - Technology News
Carbon Molecule With A Charge Could Be Tomorrow's Semiconductor
Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry Dorn has developed a new area of fullerene chemistry that may be the backbone for development of ...
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September 8, 2008 - Technology News
Bottoms Up: Better Organic Semiconductors For Printable Electronics
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Seoul National University have learned how to tweak a new class of ...
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August 21, 2008 - Technology News
Fast Quantum Computer Building Block Created
The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers ...
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August 7, 2008 - Technology News
Stretchable Silicon Camera Next Step To Artificial Retina
Digital cameras have transformed the world of photography. Now new technology inspired by the human eye could push the photographic image ...
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August 1, 2008 - Technology News
Functional Nanoribbons Carved Using Super-heated, Nano-sized Particles Of Iron
Due to its remarkable electronic properties, few layer graphene, or FLG, has emerged as a promising new material for use in post-silicon ...
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July 16, 2008 - Technology News
Researchers Generate Hydrogen Without The Carbon Footprint
"Other researchers have developed ways to produce hydrogen with mind-boggling efficiency, but their approaches are very high cost," says ...
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July 10, 2008 - Technology News
Researchers Enhance Lithography Light Sources
A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate ...
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June 30, 2008 - Technology News
Exposing The Sensitivity Of Extreme Ultraviolet Photoresists
This finding, announced at a workshop last month,* has attracted considerable interest because of its implications for future ...
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June 25, 2008 - Technology News
Accidental Discovery Could Enable Development Of Faster Computers
The researchers were experimenting with ferromagnet/semiconductor (FM/SC) structures, which are key building blocks for semiconductor ...
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June 9, 2008 - Technology News
Surprising Graphene: Precise Measurement Reveals Strange Properties
Graphene is the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon: a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons, like a sheet of chicken ...
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May 28, 2008 - Technology News
Examining The Physics Of Carbon Nanotubes
Sandia National Laboratories is also in on the carbon nanotube game, with research led by physicist François Léonard. Léonard has ...
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April 18, 2008 - Technology News
Breakthrough In Nanotechnology By Uncovering Conductive Property Of Carbon-based Molecules
University of Pittsburgh researchers have discovered that certain organic--or carbon-based--molecules exhibit the properties of atoms ...
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March 20, 2008 - Industry News
Bridge From Conventional To Molecular Electronics Possible
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have set the stage for building the "evolutionary link" between the ...
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February 26, 2008 - Technology News
Directed Self-ordering Of Organic Molecules For Electronic Devices
A simple surface treatment technique demonstrated by a collaboration between researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ...
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February 18, 2008 - Technology News
Nanotube Wires Made To Operate At Speed Of Commercial Chips
Integrated circuits, such as the silicon chips inside all modern electronics, are only as good as their wiring, but copper conduits ...
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February 12, 2008 - Technology News
Copper Connections Designed For Ultra High-speed Computing
Improving these two types of connections will increase the amount and speed of information that can be sent throughout a computer, ...
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January 29, 2008 - Technology News
New Polymer Could Improve Semicon Mfg, Packaging
Along with allowing enhanced performance and cost savings for conventional photolithography processes, the new material, called ...
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January 28, 2008 - Technology News
Nanochemists Discover Novel, Semi-Conducting Nanotube Needed For Next Generation Electronics
A University of Arkansas at Little Rock chemistry professor, his post-doctoral student, and colleagues at Stanford University, have ...
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