News tagged with hafnium oxide

New form of hafnium oxide developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel material developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge is opening up new possibilities for next generation electronic and optoelectronic devices, and paving the way for further ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Carbon-Nanotube Memory that Really Competes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Finland have created a form of carbon-nanotube based information storage that is comparable in speed to a type of memory commonly used in memory cards and USB "jump" drives.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 4 feature




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Researchers find molybdenite may be better suited for integrated logic circuits than graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because of its physical limitations, silicon use in tiny integrated logic circuits will have to one day soon be replaced by something that can work in a smaller state. That is, if we want ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

New 3-D transistors promising future chips, lighter laptops

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Purdue and Harvard universities have created a new type of transistor made from a material that could replace silicon and have a 3-D structure instead of conventional flat computer chips.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

From the Earth to the Moon: Resolving estimates of proto-Earth accretion with lunar-forming impact

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more challenging fields of scientific inquiry is planetary formation – and most relevant is that of our own Earth and Moon. The current view, based on chronometry (scientific ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 16 | with audio podcast feature

Rice-made memory chips headed to space

Rice University will send an experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. If all goes perfectly, it will be precisely the same when it returns two years later.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 4

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 3

Researchers create freestanding nanoparticle films without fillers

Nanoparticle films are no longer a delicate matter: Vanderbilt physicists have found a way to make them strong enough so they don't disintegrate at the slightest touch.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

(PhysOrg.com) -- By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

IMEC increases performance of high-k metal gate planar CMOS and FinFETs

At today’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports significant progress in improving the performance of planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-carbide metal gates ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Pushing the limits of chip miniaturisation

Over the last four decades, computer chips have found their way into virtually every electronic device in the world. During that time they have become smaller, cheaper and more powerful, but, for a team of ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 06, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 0


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