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PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.


Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox Enables Users to Maximize SSD Performance over Time

Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox Enables Users to Maximize SSD Performance over Time

Technology / Software

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

On the heels of the Microsoft Windows 7 introduction, Intel Corporation today announced the availability of the Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox, with Intel SSD Optimizer and firmware update, for its ...


New molecules have wide applications

Carbenes: New molecules have wide applications

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have created in the laboratory a class of carbenes, highly reactive molecules, used to make catalysts - substances that facilitate chemical reactions. ...


Toshiba Adds 32nm mSATA And Half-Slim Solid State Drive Modules

Toshiba Adds 32nm mSATA And Half-Slim Solid State Drive Modules

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Toshiba today announced a series of solid state drive (SSD) modules using the latest generation Toshiba 32nm MLC NAND flash, at Intel Developers Forum 2009. The Toshiba SG2 modules are offered in two types, ...


Greenlighting a greener world

Greenlighting a greener world (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Just a few years ago, most conversations Christian Wetzel had about his research began with a quick explanation of LEDs.


Intel X25-M SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD)

Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will ...


Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding—the ...


Computing in the quantum dimension

Computing in the quantum dimension

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum ...


OLED Chandelier

Philips presents OLED-based interactive lighting concepts

Technology / Hi Tech

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Royal Philips Electronics today premiered the world’s first OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) -based interactive lighting concepts, created for both consumer as well as professional use, during the Euroluce ...


Life Expectancy on the Rise - Even for Quantum States

Life Expectancy on the Rise -- Even for Quantum States

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring and controlling the lifetime of quantum states with potential use in optoelectronic chips. This achievement is highly significant ...


ASUS Eee PC 1000HE

How much netbook can you get for $400?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The hottest segment of the computer market right now is not fancy new Apple laptops or PC gaming machines. It's tiny laptops with older operating systems, cramped keyboards and designs that look like they ...


Scientists produce first live action movie of individual carbon atoms in action (w/Videos)

Scientists Produce First Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action (w/Videos)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving ...


Slimmer Nanorods Good Fit for Next-Gen 3-D Computer Chips

Slimmer Nanorods Good Fit for Next-Gen 3-D Computer Chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology.


Fusionio DuoDrive

Fusion-io Deliveries The Worlds Fastest SSD

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(Physorg.com) -- Fusion-io, a leader in high-performance I/O solutions, announced their new ioDrive Duo. The new ioDrive Duo is one of the fastest and most innovative server-based solid-state storage solutions. ...


Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have already known that carbon nanotube thin films have mechanical and conductive advantages that could make them useful as electrodes in solar cells, solid state lighting, and ...