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 ...
Graphene provides foundation for new devices that handle electrons as waves
Apr 14, 2006 |
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A study of how electrons behave in circuitry made from ultrathin layers of graphite – known as graphene – suggests the material could provide the foundation for a new generation of nanometer scale devices that ...
Scientists Create First Non-Carbon Material with Near-Diamond Hardness
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 28, 2007 |
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Research scientists have created the first non-carbon-based material with a hardness approaching that of diamond. Their work could have a significant impact on technologies and industries that rely on diamond as a cutting ...
Inexpensive 'nanoglue' can bond nearly anything together
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 16, 2007 |
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to bond materials that don’t normally stick together. The team’s adhesive, which is based on self-assembling nanoscale chains, could ...
Nanocaps help scientists control magnetism reversal
Mar 03, 2006 |
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By fabricating curved “nanocaps” to study nanoscale magnetism, scientists have discovered how to partly control magnetism reversal, which could improve applications such as data storage, recording media and ...
Researchers make breakthrough in renewable energy materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 29, 2008 |
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University of Queensland researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery that produces highly efficient miniature crystals which could revolutionise the way we harvest and use solar energy.
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 ...
Team develops DNA switch to interface living organisms with computers
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 25, 2006 |
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Researchers at the University of Portsmouth, UK, have developed an electronic switch based on DNA - a world-first bio-nanotechnology breakthrough that provides the foundation for the interface between living organisms and ...
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.
Self-powered devices possible, researcher says
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Imagine a self-powering cell phone that never needs to be charged because it converts sound waves produced by the user into the energy it needs to keep running. It's not as far-fetched as it may seem thanks to the recent ...
Move over, silicon: Advances pave way for powerful carbon-based electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Bypassing decades-old conventions in making computer chips, Princeton engineers developed a novel way to replace silicon with carbon on large surfaces, clearing the way for new generations of faster, more powerful cell phones, ...
Novel nano-etched cavity makes leds 7 times brighter
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 20, 2006 |
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) more than seven times brighter by etching nanoscale grooves in a surrounding cavity to ...
Nano this, Nano that, what the...
Feb 01, 2006 |
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Nano has officially become the most misused word in the English language. Everything from the Ipod Nano to anything smaller than a Mac truck gets “nanoed” by clueless – or savvy, take your pick – marketing ...
Researchers build tiny batteries with viruses
Apr 06, 2006 |
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MIT scientists have harnessed the construction talents of tiny viruses to build ultra-small "nanowire" structures for use in very thin lithium-ion batteries. By manipulating a few genes inside these viruses, the team was ...
