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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (76) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...


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Scientists Image the 'Anatomy' of a Molecule (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (43) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, have taken a 3D image of an individual molecule. Using an atomic force microscope, the researchers constructed a "force map" of ...


'Magnetricity' observed and measured for the first time

'Magnetricity' observed and measured for the first time

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (33) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- A magnetic charge can behave and interact just like an electric charge in some materials, according to new research led by the London Centre for Nanotechnology.


How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

How Perfect Can Graphene Be?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (30) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have investigated the purest graphene to date, and have found that the material possesses unprecedented high electronic quality. The discovery has raised the bar for this relatively ...


PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.


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Ultra-Long Carbon Nanotubes Could Serve as Future Transmission Lines

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to carbon nanotubes, the majority of research so far has focused on small-scale applications. But now, a team of researchers from Rice University has created carbon nanotubes ...


New nanolaser key to future optical computers and technologies

New nanolaser -- spaser -- key to future optical computers and technologies

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "nanophotonic" circuitry, ...


Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power ...


New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...


Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Computer Based on Insights From The Brain Moves Closer to Reality

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at SC 09, the supercomputing conference, IBM announced significant progress toward creating a computer system that simulates and emulates the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, ...


Researchers create all-electric spintronics

Researchers create all-electric spintronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 3

A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.


Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...


New geothermal heat extraction process to deliver clean power generation (w/ Video)

New geothermal heat extraction process to deliver clean power generation (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 16

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new method for capturing significantly more heat from low-temperature geothermal resources holds promise for generating virtually pollution-free electrical energy. Scientists at the Department ...


Researchers Develop Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...


Graphite mimics iron's magnetism

Graphite mimics iron's magnetism

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results ...