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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn complication of nanotubes that cause short circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news179596676.html Nanotechnology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:58:58 EST news179596676 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers at IBM, Purdue University and the University of California at Los Angeles. http://www.physorg.com/news178459486.html Nanotechnology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:00:05 EST news178459486 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir Stojanović and Rajeev Ram and their colleagues in MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics and Microsystems Technology Laboratory hope to change that, by designing optical chips that can be built using ordinary chip-manufacturing processes. http://www.physorg.com/news178298113.html Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:15:49 EST news178298113 (PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips. http://www.physorg.com/news177088957.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:39 EST news177088957 In the quest for smaller, faster computer chips, researchers are increasingly turning to quantum mechanics -- the exotic physics of the small. The problem: the manufacturing techniques required to make quantum devices have been equally exotic. That is, until now. http://www.physorg.com/news174833014.html Physics Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:44:35 EST news174833014 (AP) -- ASML Holding NV, a key supplier to computer chip makers, reported Wednesday a net profit of euro20 million ($29.7 million) for the third quarter, ending a nine-month streak of losses, and said new orders had increased sharply. http://www.physorg.com/news174719091.html Technology Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:05:17 EST news174719091 Nancy Lan-Lan Ma, a student at Keio University in Japan, demonstrates her product, Cheeron++, at the UbiComp in Orlando, Fla. Sorry, Elmo, the dolls of the future are not just for tickles. http://www.physorg.com/news174207604.html Technology Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:30:03 EST news174207604 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists have demonstrated a promising and practical method that effectively eliminates the mechanical wear in the nanometer-sharp tips used in scanning probe-based techniques. This discovery can potentially be used in the development of next generation, more advanced computer chips that have higher performance and smaller feature sizes. Scanning probe-based tools could be one approach to extend the capabilities, quality and precision beyond the projected limits of current production and characterization tools. http://www.physorg.com/news171563990.html Nanotechnology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:40:35 EST news171563990 Global chip sales fell a little more than 18 percent in July from the year-earlier period, but in a sign of improving demand, semiconductor revenue rose on a month-to-month basis for the fifth time in a row, an industry group said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news170963688.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:20:08 EST news170963688 (AP) -- Dell Inc.'s second-quarter results reinforce what other tech heavyweights have shown recently about the health of the personal-computer industry: it's still wounded by the recession, but is staggering back to its feet, thanks to consumers, bargain prices and little "netbook" laptops for surfing the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news170613517.html Technology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:39:10 EST news170613517 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of "nanolithography" required to make future computer chips. http://www.physorg.com/news169825442.html Nanotechnology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:44:45 EST news169825442 (PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny computer chips, while making them more energy efficient and less expensive to manufacture. http://www.physorg.com/news169796309.html Nanotechnology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:39:11 EST news169796309 Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen have developed nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires. In the contact they have crossed the wires like Mikado sticks and coupled several contacts together in an electric circuit. In this way they have produced prototype computer electronics on the nanoscale. http://www.physorg.com/news169727773.html Nanotechnology Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:10:02 EST news169727773 The EU Commission on Saturday defended its record-busting anti-trust action against Intel, following a report that it missed evidence which could have boosted the US computer chip giant's case. http://www.physorg.com/news168966902.html Technology Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:20:02 EST news168966902 In his neatly ordered lab at DuPont, chemist Ming Zheng slides open a glass cabinet and removes a flask of soot that could have been swept from someone's fireplace. http://www.physorg.com/news168613815.html Nanotechnology Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:11:31 EST news168613815 Ever since graphene was discovered in 2004, this one-atom thick, super strong, carbon-based electrical conductor has been billed as a "wonder material" that some physicists think could one day replace silicon in computer chips. http://www.physorg.com/news168251755.html Nanotechnology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:36:30 EST news168251755 (PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, graphene has a current carrying capacity approximately a thousand times greater than copper -while providing improved thermal conductivity. http://www.physorg.com/news168103210.html Nanotechnology Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:21:00 EST news168103210 Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out of science laboratories around the world. It's creating tremendous buzz among physicists, chemists and electronic engineers. http://www.physorg.com/news166730304.html Nanotechnology Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:58:57 EST news166730304 In the science fiction movie "Minority Report," set 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise's character interacts with a computer display by moving his hands in front of it. http://www.physorg.com/news166293891.html Technology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:45:41 EST news166293891 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ohio State University researchers have developed a new method for making extremely pure, very small metal-oxide nanoparticles. http://www.physorg.com/news166271644.html Nanotechnology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:34:43 EST news166271644 From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. These micro and nano structures must be manufactured and assembled with the highest precision so that in the end, the overall system will function smoothly. http://www.physorg.com/news166093649.html Nanotechnology Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:08:07 EST news166093649 (AP) -- Intel Corp. was fined a record $1.45 billion by the European Union on Wednesday for using strong-arm sales tactics in the computer chip market - a penalty that could turn up the pressure on U.S. regulators to go after the company, too. http://www.physorg.com/news161435562.html Technology Wed, 13 May 2009 12:18:13 EST news161435562 (PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first demonstrations of subwavelength imaging just a few years ago, scientists have been making great improvements, developing a variety of new methods for realizing high-resolution imaging. Recently, a new superlens for subwavelength imaging has been developed that offers a simplified and wide broadband operation. The superlens could potentially shrink the size of features on computer chips to make faster transistors, as well as increase the storage capacity of computer memory. http://www.physorg.com/news161252443.html Physics Mon, 11 May 2009 09:21:22 EST news161252443 New research findings could lead to faster, smaller and more versatile computer chips. A team of scientists and engineers from Stanford, the University of Florida and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the first to create one of two basic types of semiconductors using an exotic, new, one-atom-thick material called graphene. http://www.physorg.com/news160925180.html Nanotechnology Thu, 07 May 2009 14:26:54 EST news160925180 Apple is building the capability to design its own computer chips in a strategic shift aimed at cutting its reliance on outside suppliers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news160312653.html Technology Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:18:00 EST news160312653 NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology announced plans for a merger to create Japan's largest semiconductor maker, as they seek a way out of the global economic downturn. http://www.physorg.com/news160027873.html Technology Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:13:22 EST news160027873 (PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light. http://www.physorg.com/news159100452.html Nanotechnology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:34:39 EST news159100452 Roman Lysecky, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Arizona, has been awarded a grant of more than $400,000 by the National Science Foundation to develop high-performance customizable computer chips. http://www.physorg.com/news158948889.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:28:48 EST news158948889 (PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to create tiny patterns is essential to the fabrication of computer chips and many other current and potential applications of nanotechnology. Yet, creating ever smaller features, through a widely-used process called photolithography, has required the use of ultraviolet light, which is difficult and expensive to work with. http://www.physorg.com/news158511531.html Nanotechnology Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:59:47 EST news158511531 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer (billionth of a meter) level and used it to develop a method for engineering the first-ever nanoscale fluidic (nanofluidic) device with complex three-dimensional surfaces. http://www.physorg.com/news157729849.html Nanotechnology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:51:10 EST news157729849