![]() Invisibility cloak now within sight: scientists (Update 2)(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development ... |
![]() A first in integrated nanowire sensor circuitryScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire ... |
![]() 'Nanosculpture' could enable new types of heat pumps, energy convertersA new technique for growing single-crystal nanorods and controlling their shape using biomolecules could enable the development of smaller, more powerful heat pumps and devices that harvest electricity from ... |
![]() New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information StorageResearchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, "0," "1," and ... |
Researchers develop new technique for fabricating nanowire circuitsScientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), collaborating collaborating with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating ... |
![]() Researchers develop nanowire 'paper towel' for oil spillsA mat of nanowires with the touch and feel of paper could be an important new tool in the cleanup of oil and other organic pollutants, MIT researchers and colleagues report in the May 30 online issue of Nature ... |
![]() Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, engineers sayUniversity of California, San Diego electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future. |
![]() Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto siliconApplied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and ... |
Copper nanowires grown by new process create long-lasting displaysA new low-temperature, catalyst-free technique for growing copper nanowires has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois. The copper nanowires could serve as interconnects in electronic device fabrication ... |
![]() Researchers Move Closer To New Class of MemoryComputer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive could be closer than you think, thanks to a team of IBM scientists. |
![]() Engineers make first 'active matrix' display using nanowiresEngineers have created the first "active matrix" display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" ... |
Carbon nanotubes outperform copper nanowires as interconnectsResearchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a road map that brings academia and the semiconductor industry one step closer to realizing carbon nanotube interconnects, and alleviating the current bottleneck ... |
Assembly technique for tiny wires may help detect cancer, other diseasesBottom-up manufacturing may hold the key to production of tiny medical devices capable of testing for multiple molecules like viruses or cancer markers, according to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers. |
![]() Physicists discover gold can be magnetic on the nanoscalePhysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. They found that applying an electrical field on a surface-supported gold nanocluster changes ... |
![]() Chemists measure copper levels in zinc oxide nanowiresChemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been the first to measure significant amounts of copper incorporated into zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires during fabrication. The issue is important ... |