October 25, 2010 - Industry News
Light on silicon better than copper?
Step aside copper and make way for a better carrier of information -- light. As good as the metal has been in zipping information from one circuit to ...
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September 16, 2010 - Industry News
Lead-free piezoelectric materials of the future
Piezoelectric materials have fantastic properties: squeeze them and they generate an electrical field. And vice-versa, they contract or expand ...
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August 30, 2010 - Industry News
Prediction of intrinsic magnetism at silicon surfaces could lead to single-spin magnetoelectronics
The integration of single-spin magnetoelectronics into standard silicon technology may soon be possible, if experiments confirm a new ...
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June 10, 2010 - Technology News
Researchers capture first images of sub-nano pore structures
Moore's law marches on: In the quest for faster and cheaper computers, scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at ...
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February 8, 2010 - Technology News
MIT researchers build first germanium laser
MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can emit wavelengths of light useful for optical communications. ...
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August 31, 2009 - Technology News
Researchers create world's smallest semiconductor laser
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor ...
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February 2, 2009 - Technology News
A supercharged metal-ion generator
In the electronics industry, thin metal films are deposited on silicon wafers with a sputter gun, which uses energetic ions - atoms with a ...
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January 26, 2009 - Technology News
Light-speed nanotech: Controlling the nature of graphene
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and ...
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January 9, 2009 - Technology News
Researchers measure elusive repulsive force from quantum fluctuations
Researchers from Harvard University and the National Institutes of Health have measured, for the first time, a repulsive quantum mechanical ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
New nanoscale process will help computers run faster and more efficiently
Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help ...
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August 25, 2008 - Technology News
Light touch: Controlling the behaviour of quantum dots
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative centre ...
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August 25, 2008 - Technology News
Team discovers quantum halfway house between magnet and semiconductor
The semiconductor silicon and the ferromagnet iron are the basis for much of mankind's technology, used in everything from computers to electric ...
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July 28, 2008 - Technology News
Case study in chip scale review features two-chip stacked package
Smaller and faster are two goals in today's electronics market and an article in an international trade publication shows how North Dakota ...
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July 28, 2008 - Technology News
Researchers demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers
Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have ...
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July 16, 2008 - Technology News
Scientists tweak quantum force, reducing barrier to tiny devices
Cymbals don't clash of their own accord - in our world, anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed almost ...
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July 14, 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
New process creates 3-D nanostructures with magnetic materials
Materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a process to build complex, three- ...
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June 11, 2008 - Technology News
Northwestern University's transistors on space station
Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space ...
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May 15, 2008 - Technology News
A step towards the realisation of ultra-efficient polaritonic devices
The unique properties of polaritons - such as stimulated scattering, parametric amplification, lasing, condensation and superfluidity - ...
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October 18, 2007 - Technology News
Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells
Solar cells are attractive candidates for clean and renewable power. With miniaturisation, they might also serve as integrated power ...
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