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Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor

Jul 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 34 vote(s) | pda version

(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ...


IMEC reports major progress in EUV

Jul 14, 2008 | pda version

IMEC reports functional 0.186µm2 32nm SRAM cells made with FinFETs from which the contact layer was successfully printed using ASML’s full field extreme ultraviolet (EUV) Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). Applied Materials, ...


UW-Madison zero-gravity team finds spray cooling works in space

Jul 08, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

For the 10th consecutive year, University of Wisconsin-Madison students have found themselves floating upside down over the Gulf of Mexico.


Giant memory thanks to tiny capacitors

Jun 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 41 vote(s) | pda version

German-Korean research team produces a permanent memory using a new procedure and thereby sets a memory density record.


Silicon photonic crystals key to optical cloaking

Jun 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s) | pda version

In computer simulations, the researchers have demonstrated an approximate cloaking effect created by concentric rings of silicon photonic crystals. The mathematical proof brings scientists a step closer to a practical solution ...


Space radar to improve miners' safety

Jun 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Advanced ground penetration radar, originally developed to investigate the soil structure on the Moon and other planets on ESA planetary missions, is now being used in Canadian mines to spot hidden cracks and weaknesses in ...


Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station

Jun 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s) | pda version

Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International ...


Can silver nanoparticles be the key to a more compact laser?

Jun 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s) | pda version

“In random media, multiple scattering and interference reduce the diffusion of light, and in case of extremely strong scattering, photon localization, or Anderson localization of light, is predicted like electrons in glasses,” ...


Researchers Design Band-Aid-Size Tactile Display

Jun 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 39 vote(s) | pda version

Currently, we get most of our information from computers through visual and audio features. But as researchers from Korea point out, the most widespread sense on the human body is touch. While some tactile ...


Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST

Apr 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

In what should be good news for integrated circuit manufacturers, recent studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology have helped resolve two important questions about an emerging microcircuit ...


Goodbye, Bunny Ears: Future Antennas May be Flat

Apr 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 79 vote(s) | pda version

The long, wiry antennas that protrude from airplanes, cars, cell phones – and even the bunny ears on some TVs – may one day become novelty items. Researchers are developing a smart-skin antenna that is simply ...


Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously

Apr 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 17 vote(s) | pda version

New research demonstrates that novel probe technology based on flexible membranes can replace conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilevers for applications such as fast topographic imaging, quantitative ...


Luxim's tiny plasma lightbulb outshines LEDs

Mar 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 66 vote(s) | pda version

A Tic-Tac-sized lightbulb that gives off as much light as a streetlamp may offer a peek at the ultra-efficient lighting of the future. The bulb, developed by Luxim of Sunnyvale, California, uses plasma technology ...


Using ground-penetrating radar to observe hidden underground water processes

Mar 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | pda version

To meet the needs of a growing population and to provide it with a higher quality of life, increasing pressures are being placed on the environment through the development of agriculture, industry, and infrastructures.


Team Finds 'Metafilms' Can Shrink Radio, Radar Devices

Mar 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s) | pda version

Recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has demonstrated that thin films made of “metamaterials”—manmade composites engineered to offer strange combinations of electromagnetic ...


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