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Toshiba Launches 1.8 inch 250Gb SATA Hard Drive
Sep 26, 2008 |
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Toshiba has announced their new MKxx29GSG series 1.8-inch SATA Hard drives, including the 1.8-inch 250GB(MK2529GSG) hard drive, which is the first in the industry.
New Speed Record for Magnetic Memories
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An experiment carried out at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) has realized spin torque switching of a nanomagnet as fast as the fundamental speed limit allows. Using this so-called ballistic ...
Discovery by UC Riverside physicists could enable development of faster computers
Jun 24, 2008 |
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[B]Roland Kawakami's lab proposes a simple technique for controlling electron spin and current flow[/B] Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how ...
Spintronic -- the new electronic?
Jun 17, 2009 |
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European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors.
Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon
Nov 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...
Quantum computing spins closer
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes ...
French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access
May 31, 2009 |
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French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.
Spirit Mars Rover: No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier.
NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. ...
Spintronic transistor is developed
Oct 23, 2005 |
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Researcher Christian Schoenenberger and colleagues at the University of Basel, Switzerland, developed a carbon nanotube transistor, opening a promising avenue toward the introduction of spin-based devices into computer chips, ...
Manipulating Magnetism for Future Data-Storage Devices
Apr 30, 2007 |
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In an important step toward future data-storage technologies based on magnetism, a research group has determined how to control the magnetization of a “magnetic vortex,” a curling nanometer-sized magnetic ...
RIT study predicts how fast a black hole can be booted from a galaxy
May 30, 2007 |
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Scientists say spin velocity determines the size and direction of the 'kick' Scientists have discovered for the first time just how fast a supermassive black hole can be thrown from a galaxy when it merges with another bl ...
Letting the spin loose
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Jul 12, 2005 |
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A team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science has recently demonstrated conclusively that, in very specific circumstances, spin can become separated from charge and progress independently down a wire Two properties of an elec ...
Researchers discover unexpected properties of materials in lowermost mantle
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Materials deep inside Earth have unexpected atomic properties that might force earth scientists to revise their models of Earth's internal processes, a team of researchers has discovered.
Researchers Put 'Spin' in Silicon, Advance New Age of Electronics
May 18, 2007 |
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Electrical engineers from the University of Delaware and Cambridge NanoTech have demonstrated for the first time how the spin properties of electrons in silicon--the world's most dominant semiconductor, used ...
