News tagged with electrical properties
Researchers invent new method for graphene growth
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.
Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers Matches Climate Cycles
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings ...
Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other
Sep 16, 2009 |
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It is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both excentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and besides, very young.
Beyond flash -- memories are made of this
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily ...
NIST finds 'a touch of glass' in metal, settles century-old question
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have recently found evidence of an ...
Carbon nanotubes and the environment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 05, 2009 |
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Carbon nanotubes have made a meteoric career in the past 15 years, even if their applications are still limited. Recent research results show that - apart from their favorable mechanical and electrical properties ...
Unzipping Carbon Nanotubes Can Make Graphene Ribbons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By "unzipping" carbon nanotubes, researchers have shown how to make flat graphene ribbons. Graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like chicken wire, has unique electrical ...
Researchers peer into nanowires to measure dopant properties
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Semiconductor nanowires -- tiny wires with a diameter as small as a few billionths of a meter — hold promise for devices of the future, both in technology like light-emitting diodes and in ...
Nanotubes find niche in electric switches
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 10, 2009 |
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New research from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, finds that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric ...
Self-Programming Hybrid Memristor/Transistor Circuit Could Continue Moore's Law
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As researchers strive to increase the density and functionality of circuit elements onto computer chips, one newer option they have is a memory resistor (or “memristor”), the fourth passive ...
New silver-based ink has applications in printed electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 12, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ink developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows them to write their own silver linings.
University of Miami engineer designs stretchable electronics with a twist
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed ...
'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 13, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
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Nanotubes, the tiny honeycomb cylinders of carbon atoms only a few nanometers wide, are perhaps the signature material of modern engineering research, but actually trying to organize the atomic scale rods ...
