News tagged with electrical leakage


Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered ...





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New techniques make carbon-based integrated circuits more practical

New techniques make carbon-based integrated circuits more practical

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 12 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn ...


Carnegie Mellon scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children

Scientists discover first evidence of brain rewiring in children

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in young children causes the brain to physically ...


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Epilepsy Patients Are Given New Hope With Brain Implant

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A startup company, Neuropace in Mountain View Ca., has developed a device that offers new hope for epilepsy patients. The device is designed to neutralize the abnormal electrical activity ...


Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Toshiba develops essential technology for spintronics-based MOS field-effect transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and ...


Life after silicon

Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...


Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.


Rapid cardiac biomarker testing system developed by Singapore scientists

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed a rapid and sensitive integrated system to test simultaneously for specific cardiac biomarkers in finger prick amount of blood.


Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss

Elusive protein points to mechanism behind hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller University’s A. ...


A see-through surprise: Scientists make solid material transparent to terahertz waves

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Very often in science, the unexpected discovery turns out to be the most significant. Rice University Professor Junichiro Kono and his team weren't looking for a breakthrough in the transmission of terahertz signals, but ...


At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper.



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