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3D nanotube assembly technique for nanoscale electronics

3D nanotube assembly technique for nanoscale electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (41) | comments 0 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the past several years, researchers have been trying to take advantage of carbon nanotubes’ good electrical properties for future nanoscale electronics applications. One of the biggest ...


Chemists Devise Devises Self Assembling 'Organic Wire'

Chemistry /

created Oct 23, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed ...





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Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

In Brief: Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group (Argonne National Laboratory) and at Politecnico di Milano in Italy explored the limits of antiferromagnetism in a nanostructured ...


Controlling the electronic surface properties of a material

Controlling the electronic surface properties of a material

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

A recent breakthrough by researchers at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute sees for the first time the creation of thin films with controllable electronic properties. This discovery could have a large impact ...


Superconductivity: the new high critical temperature superconductors

Superconductivity: the new high critical temperature superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) by a team led by professor Francesc Illas of the University of Barcelona's Department of Physical Chemistry and di ...


Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene

Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say they have found a simple way to improve the semiconducting properties of the world’s thinnest material - by giving it a good tug.


Electronic Waste Needs to Go Green

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Americans love their consumer electronics, but what happens to all the gadgets when their useful life is over? Despite being one of the largest generators of "e-waste" in the world, the U.S. has no federal ...


New 'electronic glue' promises less expensive semiconductors

New 'electronic glue' promises less expensive semiconductors

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells ...


Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technology of storing electronic information - from old cassette tapes to shiny laptop computers - has been a major force in the electronics industry for decades.


Highlight: Exploiting strain fields

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices of the future may benefit from a fundamental discovery that allows researchers to customize the electronic properties of complex materials such as single-crystal thin-film structures.


Physicists find unusual electronic properties in bismuth-based crystalline material

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered unusual electronic properties in a material that has potential to improve solar cell efficiency and computer chip design.


Enabling graphene-based technology via chemical functionalization

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Graphene is an atomically thin sheet of carbon that has attracted significant attention due to its potential use in high-performance electronics, sensors and alternative energy devices such as solar cells. While the physics ...



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