Search results for nanoelectronics:
Researchers Prove Existence of New Basic Element for Electronic Circuits -- 'Memristor'
Apr 30, 2008 |
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HP today announced that researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.
Virtual 3D nanorobots could lead to real cancer-fighting technology
Dec 05, 2007 |
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From eliminating the side effects of chemotherapy to treating Alzheimer’s disease, the potential medical applications of nanorobots are vast and ambitious. In the past decade, researchers have made many improvements ...
Nanoscale 'Coaxial Cables' for Solar Energy Harvesting
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 23, 2007 |
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Scientists have designed a new type of nanowire – a tiny coaxial cable – that could vastly improve a few key renewable energy technologies, particularly solar cells, and could even impact other cutting-edge, ...
Breakthrough: Scientists used nanotubes to send signals to nerve cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 08, 2006 |
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Texas scientists have added one more trick to the amazing repertoire of carbon nanotubes -- the ability to carry electrical signals to nerve cells.
Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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Multi-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ...
Graphene Nanoelectronics: Making Tomorrow’s Computers from a Pencil Trace
Jul 24, 2007 |
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A key discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics.
Electric field can align silver nanowires
May 17, 2006 |
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Scientists have discovered how to align silver nanowires in a controlled manner with an electric field. Their technique offers a possible route to sculpting and writing on nanowires, an ability that will likely ...
IBM Researchers Demonstrate New Method for Rapid Molecule Sorting and Delivery
May 02, 2006 |
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IBM researchers have demonstrated a new nanoscale method that both rapidly separates very small numbers of molecules and also delivers them precisely onto surfaces with unprecedented control. When fully developed, ...
Scientists Make 'Perfect' Nanowires
Jan 23, 2008 |
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Scientists have created silicon nanowires that are perfect—at least atomically. Down at the single-atom level, the identical wires have no bumps, bends, or other imperfections. They are perfectly crystalline, even more so ...
Transparent transistors to bring future displays, 'e-paper'
Jun 26, 2007 |
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Researchers have used nanotechnology to create transparent transistors and circuits, a step that promises a broad range of applications, from e-paper and flexible color screens for consumer electronics to "smart cards" and ...
Toward Building Molecular Computers
Jan 24, 2007 |
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Don't throw away your laptop yet, but there's a promising new high-tech invention being announced this week. Researchers have created a memory circuit the size of a white blood cell that has enough capacity ...
Graphene used to create world's smallest transistor
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide.
Water, nanoelectronics will mix to create ultra-dense memory storage
Apr 26, 2006 |
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Excessive moisture can typically wreak havoc on electronic devices, but now researchers have demonstrated that a little water can help create ultra-dense storage systems for computers and electronics.
Big step in tiny technology
Aug 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial step in developing minuscule structures with application potential in sophisticated sensors, catalysis, and nanoelectronics has been developed by Scottish researchers.
Nanometer bridge combines magnetic and electronic worlds
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 29, 2006 |
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A gadolinium layer of no more than one nanometer in thickness is capable of combining the magnetic world with electronics. In this way, it will be possible to put a magnetic memory element directly to a silicon transistor: ...
