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Stanford researchers develop the next generation of retinal implants
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Stanford researchers has developed a new generation of retinal implants that aims to provide higher resolution and make artificial vision more natural.
Adobe founders bound together by friendship as well as profits
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I can't imagine there is any more room for awards on the mantels at John Warnock's and Chuck Geschke's homes. The Adobe co-founders have been honored by trade groups, engineering societies, magazines and universities. But ...
New techniques make carbon-based integrated circuits more practical
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn ...
Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to their violent nature and long distance from Earth, black holes and their surroundings are very difficult to study. Currently, the main method to observe a black hole is to use an X-ray ...
Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.
Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...
Scientists build 'single-atom transistor'
Dec 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, ...
New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.
Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...
Microscopic gyroscopes, the key for motion sensing
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny devices made possible by combining the latest advances in mechanical and electronics technology could be at the heart of next-generation personal navigation and vehicle stabilisation ...
Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...
Ubiquitous in U.S., Google struggles for market share in China
Dec 09, 2009 |
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In China, Google means underdog. While the Mountain View company dominates the search market in the United States, it is not part of the pop lexicon on the other side of the Pacific. In its nine years in China, ...
Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS ...
Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...
Innovation puts next-generation solar cells on the horizon
Dec 01, 2009 |
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In a world first, a Monash University-led international research team has developed an innovative way to boost the output of the next generation of solar cells.
