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Discovery could help electronics industry enter new phase
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Electronic devices of the future could be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy because of a discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(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.
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Reverse Chemical Switching of a Ferroelectric Film
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ferroelectric materials display a spontaneous electric polarization below the Curie temperature that can be reoriented, typically by applying an electric field. In this study, researchers ...
Scientists find new set of multiferroic materials
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The trail to a new multiferroic started with the theories of a U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist and ended with a multidisciplinary collaboration that created ...
'Ferroelectric' Material Reveals Unexpected, Intriguing Behavior
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Jan 17, 2006 |
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In electronics-based technologies, metal-oxide compounds known as "relaxor ferroelectrics" often make up key circuit components due to their unique electrical behavior. They are good insulators and can sustain ...
Nano World: Water for denser nano-memory
May 02, 2006 |
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Water and electronics ordinarily do not mix, but water fragments might help control memory bits in electronics only nanometers or billionths of a meter in size, potentially leading to simpler, incredibly dense computer data-storage ...
New project on ferroelectric films: Cheaper, smaller and less energy consuming components for laptops, mobiles
Dec 16, 2005 |
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Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, has together with five European partners started a three year project, Nanostar, for mastering of nanostructured multifunctional ferroelectric films for low cost mass ...
Shocking: Environmental chemistry affects ferroelectric film polarity the same way electric voltage does
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “Ferroelectric materials are interesting scientifically, and, while they are used for some things now, they are potentially useful for even more applications in the future,” Brian Stephenson tells PhysOrg.com. Stephe ...
Autonomous robot detects shrapnel
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a laboratory robot that can successfully locate tiny pieces of metal within flesh and guide a needle to its exact location -- all without the need for human assistance.
University of Pennsylvania engineers discover natural 'workbench' for nanoscale construction
Jul 17, 2007 |
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Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have taken a step toward simplifying the creation of nanostructures by identifying the first inorganic material to phase separate with near-perfect order at the ...
Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response
May 12, 2008 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have ...
Water, nanoelectronics will mix to create ultra-dense memory storage
Apr 26, 2006 |
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Excessive moisture can typically wreak havoc on electronic devices, but now researchers have demonstrated that a little water can help create ultra-dense storage systems for computers and electronics.
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