Archive: 04/11/2005
Breakthrough Technology Accelerates Solid-State Lighting
"SPE" method boosts LED development with dramatic increase in light output Scientists at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a method known as "SPE" to get ...
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Nanotech advance makes carbon nanotubes more useful
Researchers at UCSD have made carbon nanotubes bent in sharp predetermined angles, a technical advance that could lead to use of the long, thin cylinders of carbon as tiny springs, tips for atomic force m ...
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Samsung Unveils its New Satellite DMB phone
Samsung Electronics will showcase its third satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) phone (SCH-B200) at MIPTV/MILIA in Cannes, France from April 11 to 15, following the release of the SCH-B100 and ...
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Freescale, Philips and STMicroelectronics Expand Industry's Largest R&D Alliance
The Crolles2 Alliance partners STMicroelectronics, Philips and Freescale Semiconductor have reached a preliminary agreement to cooperate on the creation and validation of high-level System-on-Chip (SoC) intellectual property ...
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UMC Expands X Architecture Support - First Pure-Play Foundry to Provide Qualified 90-nm Design Rules
Foundry Fabrication Now Available for Fabless Customers Designing 90-nm X Architecture Chips The X Initiative and UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today announced that UMC is the first pure-play foundry to release qu ...
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Portable High-Resolution NMR Sensor Unveiled
Homeland security experts may soon be getting a valuable new tool for identifying the chemical constituents in suspicious substances. A portable device makes it possible for the first time ever to take high-resolution ...
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IEEE-USA white paper: US prosperity at risk; gigabit networks should be national priority
The United States should deploy widespread wired and wireless gigabit networks as a national priority, according to a white paper from the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy (CCIP).
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Sacred constant might be changing
Scientists discover one of the constants of the universe might not be constant Physical constants are one of the cornerstones of physics – sacred numbers which we know to be fixed – but what if some of these constants ar ...
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Terrorist-proof buildings from new high-tech sensors
Scientists develop a breed of sensors that can survive extremes of heat and pressure Scientists have developed a new breed of sensors which can survive incredible levels of pressure and heat and that are helping researche ...
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Microscopes at microscopic size
Traditionally if scientists wanted to look at something small they would put a sample under a microscope but now researchers have managed to shrink the microscope itself to the size of a single human cell. An interdisciplinary research ...
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New material structure produces world's fastest transistor
A new type of transistor structure, invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has broken the 600 gigahertz speed barrier. The goal of a terahertz transistor for high-speed computing and communications ...
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Dell, University of Texas Benchmark Performance of Standards-Based Supercomputing Clusters
Dell and the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin have teamed to benchmark high-performance computing (HPC) applications on standards-based computer hardware. The organizations' goal is to ...
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ISS Crew Packs Up For Home
This week, the current International Space Station crew is starting to pack-up for home while the next Station crew is completing a final review of plans before heading to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to prepare for ...
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UC Berkeley to lead $19 million NSF center on cybersecurity research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that the University of California, Berkeley, will lead an ambitious multi-institution center to protect the nation's computer infrastructure from cyberattacks while improving ...
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Stop or I'll download
Police in Fresno, Ca., will soon be able to download mug shots and streaming video through computers in their patrol cars and special handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs). The city of 456,000 in the Golden State’s Cen ...
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