Researchers Create Enhanced Light Sources For Lithography

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Mirrors are used in scientist Mark Tillacks UC San Diego photonics lab to guide light into laser amplifiers.
Mirrors are used in scientist Mark Tillack's UC San Diego photonics lab to guide light into laser amplifiers.

A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices. So far, the semiconductor industry has been successful in its consistent efforts to reduce feature size on a chip. Smaller features mean denser packing of transistors, which leads to more powerful computers, more memory, and hopefully lower costs.


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Sinking shares could make Yahoo a target again

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(AP) -- When Yahoo Inc. co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang spurned Microsoft Corp.'s rich buyout offer this spring, he promised brighter days in Sunnyvale were just over the horizon.

IBM builds online version of China's famed Forbidden City

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IBM on Friday opened online doors to a virtual version of the famed Forbidden City in China that served for centuries as an exclusive realm for the nation's emperors.

Fujitsu Develops World's First GaN HEMT Able to Cut Power in Standby Mode and Achieve High Output

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Fujitsu today announced the development of a new type of gallium nitride (GaN)-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) that features a new structure ideal for use in amplifiers for microwave and millimeter-wave ...

Deep sea pipelines to green gas production

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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researchers are working to tap into a wealth of natural gas resources located in distant, deep-ocean fields off the coast of Western Australia.

Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it's supercopter

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Unmanned helicopters could soon be a key part of emergency relief operations, as well as bringing a new dimension to filmmaking, thanks to some innovative work done by European researchers.
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