September 24, 2008 - Industry News
Using the Technological Capability We Have
Embedded systems will soon be improving everything from the automotive industry to the electric grid. Lisa Su, senior vice president and ...
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August 15, 2008 - Technology News
Drawing Circuits with 11 Million Nano Pens
The demand for ever faster, cheaper electronics is pushing the lithography-based manufacturing techniques standard in the ...
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August 15, 2008 - Technology News
More-Efficient Solar Cells
By changing the way that conventional silicon solar panels are made, Day4 Energy, a startup based in Burnaby, British Columbia, has found a way ...
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July 18, 2008 - Technology News
Strongest Material Ever Tested
Materials scientists have been singing graphene's praises since it was first isolated in 2005. The one-atom-thick sheets of carbon conduct ...
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July 11, 2008 - Technology News
A Better Solar Collector
Looking to make solar panels cheaper, MIT researchers have created sheets of glass coated with advanced organic dyes that more efficiently ...
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June 6, 2008 - Technology News
A Tiny Sensor Simply Made
Researchers at NASA Ames Research Center have developed a nanotechnology-based biosensor that can detect trace amounts of as ...
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April 7, 2008 - Top Story News
Inside Intel's New Chip
With 45 million transistors and energy-saving features, the Atom processor could usher in a whole new era of mobile computing. The ...
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March 18, 2008 - Technology News
Better Graphene Transistors
IBM researchers have discovered a way to massively improve the performance of transistors made out of sheets of the two-dimensional ...
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March 11, 2008 - Technology News
What to Expect from the Open iPhone
With its easy-to-use touch screen and slick software--including Apple's iTunes--the iPhone is the darling of the cell-phone industry. And last ...
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February 1, 2008 - Technology News
Cheap Hydrogen
Nanoptek, a startup based in Maynard, MA, has developed a new way to make hydrogen from water using solar energy. The company says that ...
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September 7, 2007 - Technology News
An Easier Way to Make a Nano Optical Device
To make something useful, one typically doesn't think of breaking things and pulling them apart. But researchers at Princeton University have ...
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August 27, 2007 - Technology News
Practical Fuel Cells for Electronics
A new scheme for creating a compact device that efficiently converts methanol into hydrogen could make it practical to incorporate fuel ...
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August 16, 2007 - Industry News
Silicon Nanocrystals Light Up Super-efficient Solar Cells
Research shows that silicon can wring two electrons from each photon of incoming light. A typical solar cell generates only one electron per ...
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June 19, 2007 - Technology News
The Nintendo Wii
Initially discounted by game-industry watchers as graphically underpowered compared with the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox ...
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June 18, 2007 - Technology News
Ultraefficient Photovoltaics
A solar cell more than twice as efficient as typical rooftop solar panels has been developed by Spectrolab, a Boeing subsidiary based in ...
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February 1, 2007 - Technology News
MEMS for Viewing Faraway Galaxies
Efforts to peer deep into the early universe are important to understanding its formation, but this requires the gathering of very faint infrared ...
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January 9, 2007 - Technology News
World's Fastest Optical Chip
In his lab in Sunnyvale, CA, David Welch, cofounder of telecom startup Infinera, holds up a rigid two-centimeter-wide strip featuring four patterned, gold-colored rectagles. It's made of ...
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December 19, 2006 - Technology News
Samsung's Plan for Terabit Flash Memory
Researchers at Samsung, one of the leading producers of flash-memory chips, recently announced a new chip that can hold twice as much data as ...
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August 3, 2006 - Technology News
A Sharper Focus for Photovoltaics
Focus enough sunlight on a sheet of paper and you can light a fire. Focus the same sunlight on a solar cell and you can ...
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June 30, 2006 - Technology News
A Record-Breaking Camera Chip
CA-based Semiconductor Technology Associates (STA) has designed the world's highest-resolution digital camera chip, capable of holding an image ...
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