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Nano World: Invisibility through nano
May 25, 2006 |
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Invisibility cloaks that bend light might develop using nanotechnology, experts tell UPI's Nano World.
Nanoscale computer memory retrieves data 1,000 times faster
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash ...
IBM Brings Single-Atom Data Storage, Molecular Computers Closer to Reality
Aug 30, 2007 |
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IBM today announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules.
Physicists Store Images in Vapor
Jun 23, 2008 |
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Books are written on solid pieces of paper for an obvious reason: the atoms in a solid don’t move around much, keeping the words and pictures in place for centuries. Trying to store letters and images in a ...
'Nano-Manhattan' 3D solar cells boost efficiency (Update)
Apr 11, 2007 |
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Unique three-dimensional solar cells that capture nearly all of the light that strikes them could boost the efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) systems while reducing their size, weight and mechanical complexity.
Make Way for the Real Nanopod: Researchers Create First Fully Functional Nanotube Radio
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Make way for the real nanopod and make room in the Guinness World Records. A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at ...
Tiny Brain-Like Transistor Controls Nanobots
Mar 12, 2008 |
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For years, researchers have been building tiny nanobots that could one day serve a variety of purposes. But, until now, nanobots couldn't work together.
See-through transistor fabricated for future e-displays
Jul 27, 2007 |
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Scientists have recently taken an important step toward the development of “see-through” flexible electronic displays by fabricating fully transparent, high-speed nanowire transistors. This piece of circuitry, ...
Physicists show electrons can travel over 100 times faster in graphene than in silicon
Mar 24, 2008 |
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University of Maryland physicists have shown that in graphene the intrinsic limit to the mobility, a measure of how well a material conducts electricity, is higher than any other known material at room temperature. ...
Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department of ...
New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...
New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes
Nov 27, 2007 |
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The ability to create flexible, transparent electronics could lead to a host of novel applications, such as e-paper and electronic car windshields. Now, scientists have constructed a transistor made of a network ...
IBM using light instead of wires for building supercomputers-on-a-chip
Dec 06, 2007 |
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Supercomputers that consist of thousands of individual processor "brains" connected by miles of copper wires could one day fit into a laptop PC, thanks in part to a breakthrough by IBM scientists announced ...
Microscope Sees with Nanoscale Resolution
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Researchers have recently built an x-ray microscope that has a pixel resolution of just 15 nanometers, allowing scientists to study the properties of materials at the molecular scale and beyond.
Nanotube adhesive sticks better than a gecko's foot
Jun 19, 2007 |
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Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of ...
