Search results for RFID
Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor
Jul 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ...
Printable, Flexible Carbon-Nanotube Transistors
Jan 08, 2008 |
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Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Brewer Science, Inc. have used carbon nanotubes as the basis for a high-speed thin-film transistors printed onto sheets of flexible plastic. Their method may allow ...
Health-care chips could get under your skin
Jun 12, 2006 |
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It seems like something out of an X Files script - a person's health-care information encoded into a tiny chip and implanted beneath the skin - but it's no script, says one health ethicist.
A Step Closer to Printing-Press Electronics
Jul 02, 2007 |
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One goal for the future of electronics is the ability to print large, flexible circuits using machines similar to printing presses. While great strides have been made in developing bendable and lightweight organic materials ...
Research dishes out flexible computer chips
Jul 18, 2006 |
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New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 29, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
Organic Transistors: Researchers produce high performance field-effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability ...
Rolling out flexible displays for the mass market
Dec 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a cost-effective method for manufacturing flexible displays in much the same way that newspapers are printed. Their work promises to revolutionise packaging, ...
Taiwan Scientists Discover Gold Nanoparticles Stabilize Organic Memory
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 12, 2007 |
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Taiwan scientists and engineers have invented a nonvolatile organic memory device. The device uses gold nanoparticles mixed with a polymer that is wedged between two aluminum electrodes.
New Technology to Use Human Body As Digital Transmission Path
Feb 22, 2005 |
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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is pursuing research and development of an innovative Human Area Networking technology called RedTacton (*1) that safely turns the surface of the human body ...
Existing Technologies Combine to Make Automated Home
Apr 30, 2006 |
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The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), Ymatic Ltd., and Biometrica Systems Asia Co. Ltd. have jointly developed a novel automated home – not with new technology, but with ...
RFID Feared as Possible Terrorist Target
Mar 28, 2007 |
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London's Royal Academy of Engineering suggests that someday a terrorist will be able to read personal details from a distance and set a bomb to go off when a particular person gets within range.
Researchers Develop Efficient Organic Solar Cell
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Dec 13, 2004 |
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As the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun - can be expensive due ...
NEC Develops New Ultra-Thin, Flexible Battery Boasting Super-Fast Charging Capability (Picture)
Dec 07, 2005 |
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NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in the development of an ultra-thin, flexible, rechargeable battery capable of super-fast (30-second) charging, which can be embedded into smartcards and ...
Salt and Paper Battery May One Day Replace Lithium Batteries
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Salt and paper battery can be used in many low-power devices, such as medical implants, RFID tags, wireless sensors and smart cards. This battery uses a thin-film which makes it an attractive ...
