Archive: 04/25/2005
Sapphire Stars in Nanotube Support Role
On crystal surfaces, nanotubes self-guide themselves into dense structures with exciting potential applications as sensors or integrated circuits USC researchers have found that sapphire surfaces spontaneousl ...
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Samsung Teams With Microsoft to Develop First Hybrid Hard Drive With NAND Flash Memory
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that its OneNAND Flash memory has been incorporated into the design of Microsoft Corp.'s prototype Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD), the ...
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K-State professor takes chemistry to another world
Astronaut health is one of NASA's top priorities. Once beyond Earth's atmosphere, astronauts are exposed to ionizing radiation and microgravity. Effects from these, along with the potential buildup of toxins in the enclosed env ...
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Future Computer: Atoms Packed In An "Egg Carton" Of Light?
Scientists at Ohio State University have taken a step toward the development of powerful new computers -- by making tiny holes that contain nothing at all. The holes -- dark spots in an egg carton-shaped sur ...
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Engineers Achieve Breakthroughs Enabling Implementation of High-k Dielectrics at 45 nm Technology Node
Using a selected set of tools and processes, Sematech engineers have achieved twin breakthroughs in channel mobility and reliability of high-k/metal gate transistors, putting high-k technology for CMOS within reach at the ...
Apr 25, 2005 |
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Samsung selects Philips Low-Power 802.11 WLAN solution for new mobile phones
Royal Philips Electronics today announced that Samsung has selected the Philips low-power 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) solution for its new line of mobile phones. The Philips 802.11 solution offers easy acc ...
Apr 25, 2005 |
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Biosphere is source, not sink, for carbon dioxide emissions, study shows
Converting forests into croplands and pastures reduces carbon storage, say scientists who studied the impacts of human-induced change on terrestrial ecosystems. The study results have important implications for predicting ...
Apr 25, 2005 |
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Innovative Audio Amplifier Improves RF Suppression in Wireless Notebooks and Other Portable Devices
National Semiconductor Corporation today introduced a new Boomer audio amplifier that features innovative internal circuitry that suppresses RF signals from passing through the amplifier. This is important because certain ...
Apr 25, 2005 |
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Freescale and Philips collaborate to accelerate availability of compatible FlexRay products
Aiding the drive toward a common standard for next-generation in-vehicle networks, Freescale Semiconductor and Royal Philips Electronics have agreed to share their FlexRay technologies. This agreement will support the dev ...
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HP Introduces Advanced Security Capabilities and Support for Latest Microsoft Operating Systems
HP today introduced the first business desktop system to meet future Microsoft security requirements and support for Microsoft Windows x64 Editions across platforms for business users. The new business desktop PCs and wor ...
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Next-Generation OLEDs
Georgia Tech and Albemarle Corp. to Develop New Polymer Precursor Materials for Aluminum-based OLEDs The Georgia Institute of Technology and Virginia-based Albemarle Corp. have signed a collaborative resea ...
Apr 25, 2005 |
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'There's a hole in my bucket ...'
Cracks, splits and holes are by definition one of the biggest problems in sealing technology. A new addition has recently been made to the thermoplastic elastomer family: Swellable variants of these plastics ...
Apr 25, 2005 |
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Thomas Roser Wins 2005 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award
Thomas Roser, Associate Chair for Accelerators and Accelerator Division Head at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been selected as one of two recipients of the 2005 Particle Accelerator Science ...
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LHC Computing Centres Join Forces for Global Grid Challenge
Today, in a significant milestone for scientific grid computing, eight major computing centres successfully completed a challenge to sustain a continuous data flow of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) on average for 10 days ...
Apr 25, 2005 |
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Professors seeks to understand why birds sing
A better understanding of why birds sing has led David Rothenberg, PhD, a professor in the department of humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), on a journey into the seemingly disparate worlds of science, ...
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