Archive: 06/16/2005
NEC Develops Highly-Reliable CMOSFET with Phase Controlled NiSi (NFET) & Ni3Si (PFET) Gate Electrode
NEC Corporation ("NEC") today announced the development of a transistor featuring a new gate stack structure using a hafnium ("Hf")-based, high-k dielectric and a metal gate electrode, which simultaneously realize significant ...
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NASA Successfully Demonstrates Innovative Nanosatellite System
Big things can come in small packages, and engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center are making progress on a tiny spacecraft that holds major promise for future exploration. Work on the volleyball-sized Miniature Autonomous Ext ...
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UMC's Researchers Extend Traditional Nitrided Gate-oxide to beyond the 65nm node
Nitrogen profile engineering used to downscale effective oxide thickness towards 1nm to improve semiconductor performance UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today announced that its research and development team ...
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Samsung Introduces 'Bluetooth Voice Recognition Phone'
Samsung Electronics is launching a cutting-edge mobile phone that has combined the Bluetooth with the Voice Recognition technology. Samsung Electronics announced that it has released the Bluetooth Voice Rec ...
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New 'biosensor' screens Air Force personnel and equipment for contamination - within minutes
Air Force personnel will soon know within minutes if they or their equipment are contaminated with a biological agent, thanks to a new technology developed by the Air Force and a national laboratory. Personnel wil ...
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Software Advance Helps Computers Act Logically
Computers just respond to commands, never "thinking" about the consequences. A new software language, however, promises to enable computers to reason much more precisely and thus better reflect subtleties intended by commands ...
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New NIST Method Improves Accuracy of Spectrometers
Measurements of the intensity of light at different wavelengths can be made more accurately now, thanks to a new, simple method for correcting common instrument errors. The new method, developed by researchers at the National ...
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Finding the True Measure of Nanoscale 'Roughness'
Straight edges, good. Wavy edges, bad. This simple description holds true whether you are painting the living room or manufacturing nanoscale circuit features. In a technical paper* published in June, res ...
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Philips and TPV entered into definitive agreement to create world’s leading display manufacturer
Royal Philips Electronics and TPV Technology Limited today announced they have signed a definitive agreement for the sale and transfer of certain Philips' monitor and entry level flat screen television business to TPV. This ...
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Superconducting nanowires show ability to measure magnetic fields
By using DNA molecules as scaffolds, scientists have created superconducting nanodevices that demonstrate a new type of quantum interference and could be used to measure magnetic fields and map regions of superconductivity. Researchers at ...
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Efficient 'can' lights open opportunities for energy savings
It turns out that the most popular form of residential lighting is generally the most inefficient. So inefficient, in fact, that new building codes in California will effectively limit new installation of incandescent recessed ...
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Hurricanes to intensify as Earth warms
Warmer oceans, more moisture in the atmosphere, and other factors suggest that human-induced climate change will increase hurricane intensity and rainfall, according to climate expert Kevin Trenberth of the National Center ...
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Extreme melting event defines Earth's early history
Could Earth have had an even more violent infancy than previously imagined? New isotope data suggest that the Earth not only had a very violent beginning but also point to new information about our planet's chemical evolution. New and ...
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Women, space travel and infection: bed-rest study investigates female immune response on extended missions
A bed-rest study with female participants will help scientists understand changes to the immune response and decreased resistance to infection in space. Investigators with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NS ...
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Hybrids are becoming mainstream
Hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles are rapidly becoming mainstream choices for American consumers, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and HybridCars.com. "The first buy ...
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