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Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'

Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new type of light emitting diode (LED) with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency.





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Futuristic Intel Chip

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...


Glasgow scientists predict the unpredictable to guide future nano-chip design

Glasgow scientists predict the unpredictable to guide future nano-chip design

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create ...


Nanowire Formation

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...


Selling chip makers on optical computing

Selling chip makers on optical computing

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...


Ethanol

Microbes to Take Over Ethanol Production?

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not too long ago, it seemed that ethanol production was the wave of the future. The use of trash, wood chips or different types of plants -- usually grass or corn -- to make ethanol was considered ...


Trust Linux!

Trust Linux!

Technology / Software

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has implemented support for 'trusted computing' in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive ...


Observers wary of 'truce' between Intel, AMD

Technology / Business

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, Silicon Valley's version of the long-squabbling Hatfields and McCoys, really get along?


Research helps overcome barrier for organic electronics

Research helps overcome barrier for organic electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on. A team of engineers has determined ...


Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment

Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical ...


Is Your Microrobot Up for the (NIST) Challenge?

Is Your Microrobot Up for the (NIST) Challenge?

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The scientists and engineers who introduced the world to tiny robots demonstrating soccer skills are creating the next level of friendly competition designed to advance microrobotics -- the ...



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