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. It is a completely transparent and flexible energy conversion and storage device that you can bend and twist like a poker card. http://www.physorg.com/news157721337.html Nanotechnology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:29:27 EST news157721337 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils. http://www.physorg.com/news157718787.html Nanotechnology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:46:58 EST news157718787 (PhysOrg.com) -- Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The surfaces, made of randomly placed and densely distributed micron-sized silicon islands with nano-sized spikes, allow water to quickly penetrate textures and spread over the surface. http://www.physorg.com/news157306251.html Nanotechnology Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:12:01 EST news157306251 Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways. http://www.physorg.com/news157137843.html Nanotechnology Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:24:30 EST news157137843 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have created a molecular device which could act as a building block for future generations of superfast computers. http://www.physorg.com/news156710301.html Physics Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:38:57 EST news156710301 (AP) -- With many established businesses just trying to survive, you might not think it's a good time to start a company, let alone ask anyone for money to help get it rolling. But if a series of presentations from fledgling Silicon Valley startups is any indication, innovation is not braking for the recession. http://www.physorg.com/news156696192.html Technology Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:43:43 EST news156696192 If Hewlett-Packard hadn't reorganized its research efforts a little more than a year ago, according to Prith Banerjee, director of the world-renowned HP Labs, people on the business side of the company might be asking some hard questions today. http://www.physorg.com/news156623759.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:36:55 EST news156623759 (AP) -- If IBM Corp. scoops up Sun Microsystems Inc. for at least $6.5 billion in cash, as the companies are discussing, IBM would be making an opportunistic grab for a deep well of technology that Sun has nearly buried itself developing. http://www.physorg.com/news156594974.html Technology Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:31:20 EST news156594974 Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology. http://www.physorg.com/news156522913.html Nanotechnology Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:36:02 EST news156522913 Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, where at a certain temperature two different states of liquid silicon exist. The two states each have unique properties that could be used to develop new silicon-based materials. Furthermore, the methods developed can be applied to gain a better understanding of other materials. http://www.physorg.com/news156424983.html Physics Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:23:43 EST news156424983 The next time an overnight snow begins to fall, take two bricks and place them side by side a few inches apart in your yard. http://www.physorg.com/news156349503.html Physics Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:25:42 EST news156349503 Linden Lab chief executive Mark Kingdon shakes his head when he sees news stories heralding the demise of former Internet darling Second Life. http://www.physorg.com/news156269282.html Technology Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:08:26 EST news156269282 Founded in 1959, Santa Clara, Calif.-based National Semiconductor is one the oldest and best-established technology companies in Silicon Valley. But it's going through a big change under the leadership of its outspoken chairman and chief executive, Brian Halla. http://www.physorg.com/news156019447.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:44:33 EST news156019447 The digital living room is still under construction, but consumers can now get a glimpse of what it might look like. http://www.physorg.com/news156019327.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:42:51 EST news156019327 From stem to stern across the continent, skirting blacktop and blue highway in his oddball little electric car, Marcelo da Luz has devoted the last eight months of his life to following the sun. http://www.physorg.com/news155385225.html Technology Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:34:16 EST news155385225 As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University are studying how electrons flow through a molecular junction -a nanometer scale circuit element that contacts gold atoms with a single molecule. Their findings reveal the electrical resistance through this junction can be turned 'on' and 'off' simply by pushing and pulling the junction -a feature that could be used as a switch in nanoscale electronic devices. http://www.physorg.com/news155309783.html Nanotechnology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:36:54 EST news155309783 Bonus may be a dirty word on Wall Street right now, but end-of-year cash is still being handed out in Silicon Valley. http://www.physorg.com/news155306071.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:35:39 EST news155306071 (PhysOrg.com) -- "What you want these days is to have precise control of nanostructures. Using masks and optical techniques, it is possible to control how nanostructures grow for use in practical applications," David Field tells PhysOrg.com. "This is already done in silicon devices. However, with softer materials it is a bit more difficult. Our work could make it possible for a new method of patterning that would work with a number of materials." http://www.physorg.com/news155208596.html Physics Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:30:48 EST news155208596 MIT's Solar Electric Vehicle Team, the oldest such student team in the country, has just finished construction of its latest high-tech car and will be unveiling it to the public this Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. in Lobby 13. http://www.physorg.com/news154797894.html Technology Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:25:27 EST news154797894 A team of researchers at the Ikerlan-IK4 technological centre have made a laboratory-scale photoelectric panel which, apart from fulfilling the function of converting solar light into electricity, solves the problems of integratability and availability that current technology presents. http://www.physorg.com/news154608401.html Technology Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:49:10 EST news154608401 (PhysOrg.com) -- Brightly glowing nanoparticles known as "Cornell dots" are a safe, effective way to "light up" cancerous tumors so surgeons can find and remove them. http://www.physorg.com/news154284998.html Nanotechnology Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:58:22 EST news154284998 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale one-stop shop, a single platform for creating electronics at a nearly single-atom scale that could yield advanced forms of such technologically important devices as high-density memory devices and -most importantly -transistors and computer processors. This multitude of uses stems from a technique previously developed by the same team to fashion rewritable nanostructures at the interface between two insulating materials. In the Feb. 20 edition of Science, the researchers demonstrate this process' various applications. http://www.physorg.com/news154277470.html Nanotechnology Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:53:29 EST news154277470 (PhysOrg.com) -- Unconventional solar cell materials that are as abundant but much less costly than silicon and other semiconductors in use today could substantially reduce the cost of solar photovoltaics, according to a new study from the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). http://www.physorg.com/news154174890.html Nanotechnology Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:22:00 EST news154174890 (PhysOrg.com) -- New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier invented at the University of California, San Diego and unveiled on Feb 11, 2009 at the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, Calif. http://www.physorg.com/news153582213.html Technology Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:45:00 EST news153582213 Charles Herrold isn't going to be forgotten this year. What do you mean, "Who's Charles Herrold?" This is just the sort of thing San Jose, Calif., boosters and radio fans - two in particular - have been fighting against for decades. http://www.physorg.com/news153064038.html Technology Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:47:46 EST news153064038 (PhysOrg.com) -- By integrating a solid-state electron emitter and a microcavity plasma device, researchers at the University of Illinois have created a plasma transistor that could be used to make lighter, less expensive and higher resolution flat-panel displays. http://www.physorg.com/news152973325.html Physics Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:36:20 EST news152973325 (PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1970, scientists have been working with `optical tweezers` - lasers that move microscopic amounts of matter using forces originating from the light matter interaction. Now, for the first time, researchers have demonstrated that light-induced forces can move macroscopic amounts of matter, as well. http://www.physorg.com/news152456596.html Physics Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:04:04 EST news152456596 In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter. http://www.physorg.com/news152455521.html Chemistry Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:45:51 EST news152455521 (PhysOrg.com) -- Single atom quantum dots created by researchers at Canada`s National Institute for Nanotechnology and the University of Alberta make possible a new level of control over individual electrons, a development that suddenly brings quantum dot-based devices within reach. Composed of a single atom of silicon and measuring less than one nanometre in diameter, these are the smallest quantum dots ever created. http://www.physorg.com/news152271696.html Nanotechnology Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:42:04 EST news152271696 (PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale resolved infrared mapping of strain fields in semiconductors. The method, which is based on near-field microscopy, opens new avenues for analyzing mechanical properties of high-performance materials or for contact-free mapping of local conductivity in strain-engineered electronic devices (Nature Nanotechnology, advanced online publication, 11 Jan. 2009). http://www.physorg.com/news151930864.html Nanotechnology Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:01:37 EST news151930864