Search results for nanoscale:
Running electronics using light
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functi ...
Nanoscale origami from DNA
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes. ...
Argonne scientists to control attractive force for nanoelectromechanical systems
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force, which attracts objects when they are only hundred nanometers apart.
IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs
Apr 30, 2009 |
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IMEC reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that ...
Highlight: STM banopatterning on pristine Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Collaborative users from the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, working with the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group, have found a controllable way to modify the surfaces ...
Discovery of Current Spike Phenomenon in Semiconductor Materials Leads to New Understanding of Nanoscale Plasticity
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Plasticity in certain semiconductor materials at the nanoscale is actually linked to phase transformation rather than dislocation nucleation, as previously thought. This is shown by the results of an international research ...
Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions
Oct 23, 2009 |
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A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale ...
One nano-step closer to weighing a single atom
Jul 27, 2009 |
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By studying gold nanoparticles with highly uniform sizes and shapes, scientists now understand how they lose energy, a key step towards producing nanoscale detectors for weighing any single atom.
Magnetic Vortex Switch Leads to Electric Pulse
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Arkansas have shown that changing the chirality, or direction of spin, of a nanoscale magnetic vortex creates an electric pulse, suggesting that such a pulse might be of use ...
Could Maxwell's Demon Exist in Nanoscale Systems?
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Maxwell’s demon may be making a comeback. Physicists know that the demon, an imaginary creature that decreases the entropy of a system, cannot exist in macroscopic systems due to the energy ...
New rotors could help develop nanoscale generators
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a molecular structure that could help create current-generating machines at the nanoscale.
Making Nanowires More Electrically Stable
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's widely predicted that future electronics will largely depend on something really small -- nanomaterials used for building nanoelectronics. A key component of these tiny circuits is stable nanowires that ...
New material for nanoscale computer chips
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen have developed nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires. ...
A 'cloaking device' -- it's all done with mirrors
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, ...
Looking deeply into polymer solar cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 13, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Ulm have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights ...


