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The Shrinky Dink solution

The Shrinky Dink solution

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Toys don't usually inspire high-tech innovation, but Michelle Khine's childhood favorite did just that.


New Southampton clean room to push the boundaries of technology

Scientists to work on non-volatile 'universal memory' devices in new clean room facility

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The University of Southampton’s Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens next week (9 September), will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile 'universal memory' devices for industry ...


Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5

(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.


Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards

Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(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 ...


New interferometer could simplify materials research

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Most current hard x-ray interferometers are based on crystals, which require their high quality and high mechanical stability,” Anatoly Snigirev tells PhysOrg.com. “This can make x-ray interferometry quite ...


Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(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, ...


Intel X25-M SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD)

Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will ...


Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML  announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales

'Collapse' in semiconductor demand hits ASML

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions.


Capturing images in non-traditional way may benefit AF

Capturing images in non-traditional way may benefit AF

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New research in imaging may lead to advancements for the Air Force in data encryption and wide-area photography with high resolution.


Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego scientists are using laser plasma-produced light sources to explore performance improvements of critical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, which ultimately will ...


Graphene may have advantages over copper for IC interconnects at the nanoscale

Graphene may have advantages over copper for IC interconnects at the nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

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 ...


Lessons from Schon -- the worst physics fraudster?

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 5

How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional ...


Tiny lasers plug the 'green gap'

Tiny lasers plug the 'green gap'

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Compact lasers which can work in formerly inaccessible parts of the spectrum and are suitable for mass production are now within reach.


At the limits of the photoelectric effect

Shaking the Fundamentals of Physics: At the Limits of the Photoelectric Effect

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 9

With extremely short wavelengths and very high intensities, light-matter interaction seems to be different than previously accepted.


New technique that scrambles light may lead to sharper images, wider views

New technique that scrambles light may lead to sharper images, wider views

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 3

When photographers zoom in on an object to see it better, they lose the wide-angle perspective -- they are forced to trade off "big picture" context for detail. But now an imaging method developed by Princeton ...