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NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

Technology / Semiconductors

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NEC Corporation, in collaboration with the National Institute of Materials Science, today announced the successful integration of NanoBridge, a solid electrolyte non-volatile crossbar switch, in Cu interconnects ...


Smoking continues gradual decline among U.S. teens, smokeless tobacco threatens a comeback

Medicine & Health / Health

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Teen smoking reached its recent peak levels around 1996 and 1997, followed by a sharp decline for about six years and a continued more gradual decline ever since, according to the latest Monitoring the Future ...


Going vertical: Fleeing tsunamis by moving up, not out

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the minutes after a strong earthquake struck offshore of the Indonesian city of Padang on Sept. 30, fears of a tsunami prompted hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate the coastal city. Or try to.


Electronic patient records are not a panacea

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Large-scale electronic patient record (EPR) programmes promise much but sometimes deliver little, according to a new study by UCL researchers that reviewed findings from hundreds of previous studies from all over the world.


Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What started out as 'blue-sky' thinking by a group of European researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ...


Fujitsu Succeeds in World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes for Next-Generation Mobile Base

Fujitsu Announces World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that, using carbon nanotubes as heat-dissipation material in amplifier transistors, Fujitsu has become the first to achieve the successful operation of high-frequency, ...


Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter

Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have set themselves the goal of producing a new generation of super-strong, lightweight polymer composite materials for use in aircraft, road vehicles, trains and ferries.


Microscopic gyroscopes, the key for motion sensing

Microscopic gyroscopes, the key for motion sensing

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(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 ...


Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI

Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS ...


New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.


Cisco chief executive John Chambers

Cisco going from Internet plumber to platform

Technology / Business

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cisco chief executive John Chambers said Tuesday that the computer switching colossus is changing from the Internet's "plumber" to a platform and provider of products for online work and leisure.


Life after silicon

Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...


Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.


NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation ...


Gene Hijacked By HIV Ancestor Suggests New Way to Block Viral Reproduction

Gene Hijacked By HIV Ancestor Suggests New Way to Block Viral Reproduction

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ancestor of the AIDS virus hijacked an entire gene, perhaps from some prehistoric cat it had infected, a gene that makes it much better able to infect humans, according to a study published ...