Engineers Achieve Breakthroughs Enabling Implementation of High-k Dielectrics at 45 nm Technology Node

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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 ...


Samsung Teams With Microsoft to Develop First Hybrid Hard Drive With NAND Flash Memory

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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 ...


Biosphere is source, not sink, for carbon dioxide emissions, study shows

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created Apr 25, 2005 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...


Professors seeks to understand why birds sing

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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, ...


LHC Computing Centres Join Forces for Global Grid Challenge

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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 ...


Sapphire Stars in Nanotube Support Role

Sapphire Stars in Nanotube Support Role

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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 ...


Next-Generation OLEDs

Next-Generation OLEDs

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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 ...


Samsung selects Philips Low-Power 802.11 WLAN solution for new mobile phones

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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 ...


Holger Wack inspects samples of his new plastics in dry and swollen condition

'There's a hole in my bucket ...'

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created Apr 25, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Innovative Audio Amplifier Improves RF Suppression in Wireless Notebooks and Other Portable Devices

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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 ...


ISS Expedition 10 Safely Back

ISS Expedition 10 Safely Back

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Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, the 10th crew of the International Space Station, landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan in their Soyuz spacecraft at ...


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Hubble celebrates 15th anniversary

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In the 15 years that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has orbited Earth, it has taken three-quarters of a million photographs of the cosmos. Two new views have been released of Hubble's most well-known images: ...


Thomas Roser Wins 2005 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award

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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 ...


HP Introduces Advanced Security Capabilities and Support for Latest Microsoft Operating Systems

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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 ...


Freescale and Philips collaborate to accelerate availability of compatible FlexRay products

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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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