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Steampipe keeps electronics cool

Steampipe keeps electronics cool

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The cooling of electronic components is playing an increasing role in the design process of electronic equipment such as mobile telephones, games computers and laptops. Wessel Wits, PhD student ...


xerox ink

Xerox Develops Silver Ink for Cheap Printable Electronics

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and ...


Getting to the roots of lethal hairs

Why they grow? Getting to the roots of lethal metal whiskers

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A short circuit can be quite hairy: satellites have failed, a NASA computer centre was repeatedly paralysed and the US public heath authority recalled thousands of pacemakers - all because ...


Hankering for molecular electronics? Grab the new NIST sandwich

Hankering for molecular electronics? Grab the new NIST sandwich

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The sandwich recipe recently concocted by scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may prove tasty for computer chip designers, who have long had an appetite for molecule-sized ...


Nano changes rise to macro importance in a key electronics material

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, working with colleagues in other ...