July 25, 2008 - Technology News
Material may help autos turn heat into electricity
Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into ...
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July 22, 2008 - Technology News
First STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises
Michael Crommie, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a professor in the Department of Physics at UC ...
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July 21, 2008 - Technology News
Shimmering ferroelectric domains
Dr. Lukas M. Eng and his group at the Technische Universität Dresden used the free-electron laser at the Forschungszentrum Dresden- ...
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July 7, 2008 - Technology News
Engineers show nanotube circuits can be made en masse
The engineers unveiled a method for making integrated circuit chips with complex nanotube components on the scale and with the parallelism ...
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July 3, 2008 - Technology News
New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage
"The use of nanowires to create electronic memory is advantageous for several reasons, but a non-binary form of nanowire memory like we ...
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July 1, 2008 - Technology News
Ex-Intel head pushes electric cars
Former Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove has a knack for sensing when circumstances should force changes at a company or an industry - and ...
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June 27, 2008 - Technology News
'Electron Trapping' May Impact Future Microelectronics Measurements
The transistor is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics, and the life expectancy or reliability of a transistor is often ...
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June 27, 2008 - Technology News
Researchers develop new technique for fabricating nanowire circuits
Spearheaded by graduate student Mariano Zimmler and Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior ...
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June 18, 2008 - Industry News
Oh Baby! First photograph of early modern computer
The panoramic black and white image, which has been unearthed in the archives at The University of Manchester, shows a development version ...
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June 13, 2008 - Technology News
Samsung Introduces 90-Nanometer High Performance Smart Card IC
The new 90nm smart card IC (S3CC9PF) utilizes a Samsung proprietary 16-bit CalmRISC processor with 16.5KB RAM, 384KB ROM, and a large ...
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June 11, 2008 - Technology News
Researchers develop better X-ray nanomirrors
X-rays from space provide astronomers with important information about the most exotic events and objects in our universe, such as dark ...
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May 22, 2008 - Technology News
Mass-Producing Tunable Magnetic Nanoparticles
Equally important, this method can be easily tailored to produce nanoparticles with a wide range of well-defined magnetic properties. ...
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May 16, 2008 - Technology News
Fuel cells: distant dream, but burning with promise
"It's unlikely that we will all be using fuel cell cars in 10 years," says Frank DiSalvo, the J.A. Newman Professor of Chemistry and ...
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May 9, 2008 - Technology News
Modern ceramics help advance technology
Many important electronic devices used by people today would be impossible without the use of ceramics. A new study published in the ...
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May 9, 2008 - Technology News
Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto silicon
The basic structure of the nanowire devices is based on a sandwich geometry in which a nanowire (n-type zinc oxide) is placed between ...
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April 24, 2008 - Technology News
Photoluminescence in nano-needles
Silicon is the workhorse among semiconductors in electronics. But in opto-electronics, where light signals are processed along with ...
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March 17, 2008 - Technology News
Carbon nanotubes outperform copper nanowires as interconnects
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a road map that brings academia and the semiconductor industry one step closer ...
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March 14, 2008 - Technology News
Carbon nanotubes outperform copper nanowires as interconnects
To better understand and more precisely measure the key characteristics of both copper nanowires and carbon nanotube bundles, the researchers ...
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March 6, 2008 - Technology News
Unique locks on microchips could reduce hardware piracy
Computer engineers at the University of Michigan and Rice University have devised a comprehensive way to head off this costly infringement ...
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February 22, 2008 - Technology News
Advanced engineered substrates boost chip performance
The EUREKA MEDEA+ Cluster SilOnIS project developed new substrate materials for producing high-speed, low-power integrated circuits. ...
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February 20, 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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January 31, 2008 - Technology News
Engineers demonstrate nanotube wires operating at speed of commercial chips
Chipmakers have hoped that carbon "nanotubes" would allow them to continue using thinner wiring as they pack more devices into chips, ...
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January 24, 2008 - Technology News
Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires
This research may be an important step forward for nanotechnology. Nanowires play a key role in developing nanoelectronics applications, ...
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November 2, 2007 - Technology News
Revolution ahead in data storage, say IT wizards
Computer hard drives are stacked up waiting to have their data backed up. The world's smallest hard drives have already shrunk to the size ...
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October 11, 2007 - Technology News
Small is beautiful: Incredible shrinking memory drives new IT
German co-laureate for the 2007 Nobel prize for Physics Peter Gruenberg holds a hard disk as he poses in his laboratory. Over the past decade ...
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