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3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers

3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 4

Not so long ago our computers had a single core which had to be boosted for performance - making each machine into a great central heating system. Beyond 85° C, however, electronic components become unstable. ...


Graphene may have advantages over copper for IC interconnects at the nanoscale

Graphene may have advantages over copper for IC interconnects at the nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The unique properties of thin layers of graphite - known as graphene - make the material attractive for a wide range of potential electronic devices. Researchers have now experimentally demonstrated the potential ...





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Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...


NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

NEC Corporation, in collaboration with the National Institute of Materials Science, today announced the successful integration of NanoBridge, a solid electrolyte non-volatile crossbar switch, in Cu interconnects ...


Fujitsu Succeeds in World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes for Next-Generation Mobile Base

Fujitsu Announces World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that, using carbon nanotubes as heat-dissipation material in amplifier transistors, Fujitsu has become the first to achieve the successful operation of high-frequency, ...


NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.


New material could expand applications and lower costs for solid oxide fuel cells

New Sulfur- and Coking-Tolerant Material Could Expand Applications for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ceramic material described in this week's issue of the journal Science could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells - devices that generate electricity directly from a ...


Friction force differences could offer a new means for sorting and assembling nanotubes

Friction force differences offer new means for manipulating nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotubes and nanowires are promising building blocks for future integrated nanoelectronic and photonic circuits, nanosensors, interconnects and electro-mechanical nanodevices. But some fundamental ...


Elpida Completes Development of  Cu-TSV (Through Silicon Via) Multi-Layer 8-Gigabit DRAM

Elpida Completes Development of Cu-TSV (Through Silicon Via) Multi-Layer 8-Gigabit DRAM

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Elpida Memory today announced that it has completed development of a Cu-TSV (Through Silicon Via) multi-layer 8-Gigabit DRAM.


Ultrathin light-emitting diodes create new classes of lighting and display systems

Ultrathin light-emitting diodes create new classes of lighting and display systems

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting ...


Tiny robots get a grip on nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do you handle the tiny components needed for constructing nanoscale devices? A European consortium has built two microrobotic demonstrators that can automatically pick up and install carbon nanotubes ...


Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, ...



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