http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to a new proposal, billions of nanoscale capacitors could take advantage of quantum effects to overcome electric arcing, an electrical breakdown phenomenon which limits the amount of charge that conventional capacitors can store. http://www.physorg.com/news180704455.html Physics Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:42:13 EST news180704455 (PhysOrg.com) -- As elements of the integrated circuits running our computers, phones and electronics, silicon wafers are everywhere. An ESA-led effort is establishing an out-of-this-world use for these commonplace items: when stacked together precisely by the thousand they promise to deliver astronomy?s clearest X-ray view yet of the most violent regions of space. http://www.physorg.com/news180626931.html Space & Earth Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:09:29 EST news180626931 (PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny devices made possible by combining the latest advances in mechanical and electronics technology could be at the heart of next-generation personal navigation and vehicle stabilisation tools thanks to European researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news179595089.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:32:23 EST news179595089 Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based monolithic inverter integrated circuit (IC) for motor drive. The integrated six GaN-based transistors can be independently driven in a single chip, which enables successful motor drive with high efficiency. The new GaN inverter IC is applicable to motor drive in a variety of consumer electronics. http://www.physorg.com/news179516515.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:00:05 EST news179516515 (PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news179085037.html Physics Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:50:02 EST news179085037 (PhysOrg.com) -- Have the blood supplies got too warm? Do they match the patient?s blood group? In the future, these kinds of questions will be answered by intelligent radio nodes attached to blood bags. These radio units will also greatly facilitate device management in hospitals. http://www.physorg.com/news178913773.html Technology Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:00:03 EST news178913773 Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create future integrated circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news178721729.html Technology Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:20:02 EST news178721729 (AP) -- Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet - the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates jobs and mints fortunes. http://www.physorg.com/news174067953.html Technology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:40:01 EST news174067953 (PhysOrg.com) -- Space environments can deliver a beating to spacecraft electronics. For decades, satellites and other spacecraft have used bulky and expensive shielding to protect vital microelectronics -- microprocessors and other integrated circuits -- from space radiation. http://www.physorg.com/news173376237.html Technology Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:04:49 EST news173376237 Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called "excitons" that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality. http://www.physorg.com/news173280934.html Physics Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:36:05 EST news173280934 Mr Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan, a second year doctoral student in Engineering, is the recipient of the best student paper award in the sensors and transducers sub-field at the IEEE Frequency Control conference. The IEEE Frequency Control conference is a premier event highlighting research in the areas of frequency and timing, frequency control and related technologies including Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). http://www.physorg.com/news171128812.html Technology Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:10:03 EST news171128812 The "FlashBox" onboard recorder will soon make the work of film professionals easier: Truly diminutive in size, it stores digital film on exchangeable disks without compression. German researchers will be presenting the prototype at the International Broadcast Convention IBC in Amsterdam (September 11 to 15). http://www.physorg.com/news170689730.html Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:00:11 EST news170689730 (PhysOrg.com) -- A hybrid of silicon nanocircuits and biological components that mimics some of the processes that control the passage of molecules into and out of cells has been created by a team of scientists from UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and UC Berkeley. http://www.physorg.com/news170619218.html Nanotechnology Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:16:04 EST news170619218 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have developed a method of stacking and purifying crystal layers that may pave the way for three-dimensional microchips. http://www.physorg.com/news170527247.html Nanotechnology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:41:21 EST news170527247 (PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when things get really small, the regular rules of Newtonian physics quit and the weird rules of quantum mechanics kick in. When that happens, as physics professor and chair Ravindra Pandey puts it, "everything goes haywire." http://www.physorg.com/news169397882.html Nanotechnology Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:58:43 EST news169397882 (PhysOrg.com) -- Modelling the fabrication processes for integrated circuits can slash production development time and costs by up to 40%. But as transistors, already at nano-scales, become ever smaller, researchers are modelling new worlds. Over the past seven years, the microprocessors in everyday electronic equipment have delivered astonishing advances in speed while reducing power consumption per transistor. http://www.physorg.com/news169134954.html Technology Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:10:01 EST news169134954 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ph.D. candidate Sataporn Pornpromlikit played a critical role in research at UC San Diego that made a big impact at a recent conference, and might provide manufacturers with the means for making cell phones both smaller and cheaper. http://www.physorg.com/news168271189.html Technology Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:00:20 EST news168271189 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 (PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful new radio technologies that promise blisteringly fast WiFi have been given a boost by a team of European researchers` cutting-edge work on miniscule microchips. http://www.physorg.com/news168099929.html Technology Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:50:01 EST news168099929 Scientists at Rice University and North Carolina State University have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help manufacturers reach beyond the current limits of Moore's Law as they make microprocessors both smaller and more powerful. http://www.physorg.com/news167569673.html Nanotechnology Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:08:31 EST news167569673 (PhysOrg.com) -- A huge amount of computing power sits idle most of the time, and new technologies enabling the sharing of resources aim to capitalise on that. Now European researchers have developed software to simultaneously run applications on very different IT infrastructures. http://www.physorg.com/news166719520.html Technology Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:10:01 EST news166719520 Electrical engineers from UC San Diego have created high-performance W-Band silicon-germanium (SiGe) radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for passive millimeter-wave imaging. This advance could lead to significantly less expensive imaging systems for identifying concealed weapons, for helping helicopters to land during dust storms, and for high frequency data communications. http://www.physorg.com/news163760682.html Technology Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:05:14 EST news163760682 The unique properties of thin layers of graphite - known as graphene - make the material attractive for a wide range of potential electronic devices. Researchers have now experimentally demonstrated the potential for another graphene application: replacing copper for interconnects in future generations of integrated circuits. http://www.physorg.com/news163344686.html Nanotechnology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:34:53 EST news163344686 (PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy spectrum of graphene, a technologically promising, two-dimensional form of carbon that has tantalized and puzzled scientists since its discovery in 2004. http://www.physorg.com/news161529738.html Nanotechnology Thu, 14 May 2009 14:23:08 EST news161529738 At the NAB exhibition April 20-23 in Las Vegas the Fraunhofer IIS shows the new compact stereo MicroHDTV camera and a small-sized storage solution for HDTV. http://www.physorg.com/news159547030.html Electronics Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:37:33 EST news159547030 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer level to engineer the first-ever nanoscale fluidic device with complex three-dimensional surfaces. As described in a recent paper in the journal Nanotechnology,* the Lilliputian chamber is a prototype for future tools with custom-designed surfaces to manipulate and measure different types of nanoparticles in solution. http://www.physorg.com/news158424738.html Nanotechnology Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:52:42 EST news158424738 (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 In the quest to pack ever-smaller electronic devices more densely with integrated circuits, nanotechnology researchers keep running up against some unpleasant truths: higher current density induces electromigration and thermomigration, phenomena that damage metal conductors and produce heat, which leads to premature failure of devices. http://www.physorg.com/news156779285.html Nanotechnology Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:53:08 EST news156779285 (PhysOrg.com) -- The memristor is a computer component that offers both memory and logic functions in one simple package. It has the potential to transform the semiconductor industry, enabling smaller, faster, cheaper chips and computers. http://www.physorg.com/news156526733.html Nanotechnology Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:39:33 EST news156526733