News tagged with nanoelectronic devices


Faster computers, electronic devices possible after scientists create large-area graphene on copper

Scientists create large-area graphene on copper: Faster computers, electronics possible

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, ...


Research advances nanowire technology for large-scale applications

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Northeastern created a network of nanowires that can be scaled up more efficiently and cost-effectively to create displays such as the NASDAQ sign in New York City’s Times Square.





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Nanoelectronic transistor combined with biological machine could lead to better electronics

Nanoelectronic transistor combined with biological machine could lead to better electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If manmade devices could be combined with biological machines, laptops and other electronic devices could get a boost in operating efficiency.


AMO Manufactures First Graphene Transistors

AMO Manufactures First Graphene Transistors

Nanotechnology / Condensed Matter

created Feb 08, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 0

In the scope of his innovative project ALEGRA the AMO nanoelectronics group of Dr. Max Lemme was able to manufacture top-gated transistor-like field-effect devices from monolayer graphene.


$100 M partnership to advance nanotech

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 12, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A $100 million partnership has been made to create what collaborators consider will be the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center.


Carbon nanostructures form the future of electronics and optoelectronics

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Phaedon Avouris and Tony Heinz for their pioneering work on the electrical and optical properties of nanoscale carbon materials including carbon nanotubes ...


Controlled growth of truly nanoscale single crystal fullerites for device applications

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Surrey researchers have found a way to make ultra-small pure carbon crystals entirely formed from the spherical carbon ‘buckyball’ molecule known as C60. The method used involves mixing two ...


Nanowire arrays can detect signals along individual neurons

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 24, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (50) | comments 0

Opening a whole new interface between nanotechnology and neuroscience, scientists at Harvard University have used slender silicon nanowires to detect, stimulate, and inhibit nerve signals along the axons and dendrites of ...


Scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures

Scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional ...


Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties

Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene ...


Nanotube-producing bacteria show manufacturing promise

Nanotube-producing bacteria show manufacturing promise

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 07, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 0

Two engineers at the University of California, Riverside are part of a binational team that has found semiconducting nanotubes produced by living bacteria – a discovery that could help in the creation of a ...


Frozen lightning: NIST's new nanoelectronic switch

Frozen lightning: NIST's new nanoelectronic switch

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (36) | comments 0

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a prototype nanoscale electronic switch that works like lightning—except for the speed. Their proof-of-concept experiments ...



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