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Invisibility cloak now within sight: scientists (Update 2)

Aug 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 78 vote(s) | pda version

(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 circuitry

Aug 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists 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 converters

Jul 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 22 vote(s) | pda version

A 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 Storage

Jul 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 54 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers 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 circuits

Jun 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists 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 spills

May 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | pda version

A 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 say

May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 53 vote(s) | pda version

University 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 silicon

May 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | pda version

Applied 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 displays

Apr 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 11 vote(s) | pda version

A 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 Memory

Apr 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 88 vote(s) | pda version

Computer 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 nanowires

Mar 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 46 vote(s) | pda version

Engineers 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 interconnects

Mar 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 10 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers 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 diseases

Mar 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | pda version

Bottom-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 nanoscale

Mar 03, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | pda version

Physicists 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 nanowires

Feb 19, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Chemists 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 ...


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