September 15, 2011 - Industry News
'Koomey's law' an alternative to Moore's Law where efficiency doubles every year and a half
Researchers have, for the first time, shown that the energy efficiency of computers doubles roughly every 18 months. The power-consumption trend ...
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August 11, 2011 - Industry News
Will graphene replace silicon in computer chips?
Due to its desirable mechanical and electronic properties, increasing numbers of scientists are researching the potential of graphene in integrated ...
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July 28, 2011 - Industry News
Prototype tools for mass producing nanostructures to launch
One of the square plastic films bearing nanometer-sized patterns being rolled out of the prototype roll-to-roll UV nanoimprinter - Roll-to-roll ...
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May 3, 2011 - Industry News
Less is More: Researchers Pinpoint Graphene's Varying Conductivity Levels
Graphene is the material from which graphite, the core of your No. 2 pencil, is made. It is also the latest "wonder material," and may be the ...
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March 30, 2011 - Industry News
MEMS over carbon nanotubes non-volatile memory
Schematic illustration of an ordinary flash memory cell. A floating gate surrounded by an insulating layer is located on the MOSFET. Electrons are ...
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March 16, 2011 - Industry News
Miniature Quantum Dot Lasers Could Help Launch New Age of Internet
The miniature laser diode emits more intense light than those currently used. A new laser device created at the University of Central Florida ...
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March 7, 2011 - Industry News
A tunable, low-cost laser device faster wavelength division multiplexing fiber communication
A scanning electron microscopy image of the master and slave lasers integrated onto a silicon substrate to form a miniature tunable laser ...
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January 20, 2011 - Industry News
Research on stem cells, MEMS, photonics, computer aided molecular design
Photonics and microelectromechanical systems fabricated separately on different wafers can now be aligned precisely by finishing with a ...
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December 13, 2010 - Industry News
Monolithic 3D Computer Chips Could Have Ten Thousand Times the Connectivity of Through-Silicon-Vias
True monolithic three-dimensional (3-D) silicon chips will beat die stacked with through-silicon-vias (TSVs) by a factor of 10,000 in connectivity ...
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December 2, 2010 - Industry News
Quantum-dot-induced transparency in a nanoscale plasmonic resonator
We investigate the near-field optical coupling between a single semiconductor nanocrystal (quantum dot) and a nanometer-scale plasmonic ...
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September 27, 2010 - Industry News
Nvidia predicts ARM smartphones will eclipse the x86 PC and Tegra 2 phones by end of 2010, Tegra 3 for 2011 and Tegra 4 by 2012
ARM will be the most important CPU architecture of the future, and it already is the fastest growing processor architecture. The PC of the ...
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September 20, 2010 - Top Story News
Computing With Silicon Carbide NEMS
Electromechanical Computing at 500°C with Silicon Carbide the nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) could be used in microcontrollers embedded in hot machinery such as jet engines ...
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June 3, 2010 - Technology News
IBM Makes Silicon Nanowire Transistors with 2.6 nanometer Features
EEtimes reports that a series of functional 25-stage ring oscillators has been made by a team of researchers from the IBM Watson Research Center ...
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May 3, 2010 - Technology News
MEMS Generates Electricity from Body Heat and MEMS Device Harvests Enough Walking Energy to Power a GPS receiver
This work presents a thermoelectric micro generator fabricated by the commercial 0.35 ěm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process ...
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March 30, 2010 - Technology News
Proposal for an all-spin logic device with built-in memory
A spintronic device in which the input, output and internal states are all represented by spin, and that shows the five essential characteristics ...
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March 29, 2010 - Technology News
Technology For 2010-20 - Ramping to a Later Technological Singularity
J Storrs Hall looks at what the Singularity look like with just nanotech (full out molecular nanotechnology) and narrow AI? Life Extension via ...
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March 15, 2010 - Top Story News
IBM Work on 3D Chip Stacking Will Take Moore's Law to 2025
IBM, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) signed a four-year collaborative ...
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March 8, 2010 - Technology News
Europe Targets Nanoscale Computer Memory with 16 nanometer
There is a European project to design nanoscale memory for the computers of the future. The Terascale Reliable Adaptive Memory Systems (TRAMS) ...
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March 4, 2010 - Technology News
Directed Self Assembly is the Technology Darling of the Advanced Lithography Conference
More from the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference. EEtimes reports that more than 10 papers on the conference schedule are focused on directed ...
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February 17, 2010 - Technology News
Ralph Merkle Molecular Manufacturing Interview by Sander Olson
Here is Sander Olson's Ralph Merkle interview. Dr. Merkle is one of the foremost molecular manufacturing experts on the planet, but his research ...
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January 5, 2010 - Industry News
Interview of Geffrey Noer - SGI Supercomputers
Here is an interview of Geoffrey Noer. Mr. Noer is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for SGI, formerly Rackable. At the Supercomputing 2009 ...
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November 18, 2009 - Technology News
22 Nanometer Lithography Coming from Extreme UV or Advanced Immersion
Nanotechwire reports SEMATECH engineers and the industry at large continue to make progress in developing the infrastructure that will enable 22 ...
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September 21, 2009 - Technology News
Korean Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Spintronics
South Korean researchers reported the first ever creation of a spin field-effect transistor, which had previously existed only in theory, claiming ...
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July 20, 2009 - Technology News
Nanophotonic on a Chip Advance
The passage of a free-electron beam through a nano-hole in a periodically layered metal/dielectric structure creates a new type of tuneable, ...
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July 8, 2009 - Industry News
DARPA working on Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams and 19 Other Top Projects
Chip-scale integration offers precise, micro actuators and high electric field generation at modest power levels that will enable several order ...
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