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For Better Nanowires, Just Add Diamond
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 15, 2006 |
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Among the positive characteristics of diamond, such as its beauty and unsurpassed hardness, are less well known properties that make it a valuable material in the electronics industry. Now, according to two scientists at ...
For a Bigger Hard-drive, Just Add Water
May 11, 2006 |
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Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes of information. Imagine an iPod playing music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB thumb-drive with room ...
Nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones
Dec 18, 2007 |
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Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.
Nanogenerator provides continuous power by harvesting energy from the environment
Apr 05, 2007 |
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Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, ...
Nano-scale fuel cells may be closer than we think, thanks to an inexpensive new manufacturing method
Mar 12, 2006 |
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We live in a world of hand-held devices: iPods, cell phones, PDAs, pagers... the list of essential personal technology keeps expanding, and the natural response is consolidation. It’s rare these days to see ...
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, ...
Nanoscale computer memory retrieves data 1,000 times faster
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash ...
Researchers Move Closer To New Class of Memory
Apr 11, 2008 |
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Computer memory that combines the high performance and reliability of flash with the low cost and high capacity of the hard disk drive could be closer than you think, thanks to a team of IBM scientists.
IBM Research Unveils Breakthrough In Solar Farm Technology
May 15, 2008 |
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IBM today announced a research breakthrough in photovoltaics technology that could significantly reduce the cost of harnessing the Sun's power for electricity.
A New Reflection in the Mirror
Jan 10, 2007 |
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A research group has devised a new type of mirror that reverses the magnetic field of a light wave upon reflection, rather than its electric field, as regular mirrors do. Seems like a minor difference? It's ...
Invisibility cloak now within sight: scientists (Update 2)
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development ...
See-through transistor fabricated for future e-displays
Jul 27, 2007 |
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Scientists have recently taken an important step toward the development of “see-through” flexible electronic displays by fabricating fully transparent, high-speed nanowire transistors. This piece of circuitry, ...
New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes
Nov 27, 2007 |
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The ability to create flexible, transparent electronics could lead to a host of novel applications, such as e-paper and electronic car windshields. Now, scientists have constructed a transistor made of a network ...
Researchers build tiny batteries with viruses
Apr 06, 2006 |
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MIT scientists have harnessed the construction talents of tiny viruses to build ultra-small "nanowire" structures for use in very thin lithium-ion batteries. By manipulating a few genes inside these viruses, the team was ...
First direct observations of spinons and holons
Jul 13, 2006 |
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The theory has been around for more than 40 years, but only now has it been confirmed through direct and unambiguous experimental results. Working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) of the U.S. Department of ...
