Search results for nanoelectronics
'Writing' Patterns on Carbon Nanotubes With Polymer Chains
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes are at the center of the nanoelectronics research movement, with scientists making great progress toward getting nanotube-based electronic devices into the hands of consumers. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists Hand-Make Devices Smaller than 10 Nanometers
Apr 27, 2007 |
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A research team from the University of Pennsylvania has used an electron beam to hand-carve ultra-small metal structures and devices, all with dimensions below 10 nanometers, from very thin metal sheets. Their ...
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, ...
Super honeycomb shows more potential for carbon nanotubes
Jan 19, 2007 |
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The hexagonal network structure makes these nanotubes look a bit like a honeycomb—or, when stretched a bit, like a hammock or fish net. In fact, the stretchiness of these 20-nm-long carbon nanotubes enables ...
Engineers lay groundwork for 'vertically oriented nanoelectronics'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 01, 2006 |
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Engineers at Purdue University have developed a technique to grow individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer, a step toward making advanced electronics, wireless devices and sensors using ...
Sending quantum information over long distances
Jul 19, 2006 |
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Ever since the idea of quantum communication was proposed, scientists have considered quantum communication systems as completely separate from classical communication systems. However, an international group of scientists ...
Shuttling Electrons
Jun 05, 2006 |
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“We are trying to understand quantum nano-electro-mechanical systems,” Jason Twamley explains to PhysOrg.com. “These systems display richer dynamics and interactions than one can obtain with quantum optical ...
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 ...
Study explains unexpected conductivity of nanoscale silicon
Feb 08, 2006 |
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When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her University of Wisconsin-Madison co-researchers were puzzled. ...
New design for transistors powered by single electrons
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Feb 02, 2006 |
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Scientists have demonstrated the first reproducible, controllable silicon transistors that are turned on and off by the motion of individual electrons. The experimental devices, designed and fabricated at NTT ...
New research suggests the possibility of quantum dot magnetic logic
Jan 17, 2006 |
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A paper published by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers in the January 13 edition of the journal Science reveals the demonstration of logic in a magnetic system, thereby opening the door to all-magnetic inform ...
Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(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 ...
