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Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1983, Richard Feynman proposed the idea of a machine that could create smaller scale replicas of itself. Today, such a system is still a challenge, but a machine that can produce nanometer-sized ...


Flexible Polymer Transistors 'Printed' Using Ultraviolet Light

Flexible Polymer Transistors 'Printed' Using Ultraviolet Light

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer and television displays made using flexible, bendable polymer materials are technologies of the future, promising roll-up computer monitors and other innovations. Scientists are making ...


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 ...


Researchers find better way to manufacture fast computer chips

Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.


Nanowire Circuit

A first in integrated nanowire sensor circuitry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (28) | comments 0

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire ...


unzipping nanotubes

Unzipping Carbon Nanotubes Can Make Graphene Ribbons

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- By "unzipping" carbon nanotubes, researchers have shown how to make flat graphene ribbons. Graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like chicken wire, has unique electrical ...


Molecular Alignment Gives Monolayers the Edge in Bendable Semiconductor

Molecular Alignment Gives Monolayers the Edge in Bendable Semiconductor

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Reprogrammable product tags, bendable displays and flexible solar cells--the field of organic semiconductor research is advancing these possibilities toward reality. By layering hydrocarbon ...


Fujitsu Develops Power-Saving CMOS Technology for 32nm-Generation and Beyond

Fujitsu Develops Power-Saving CMOS Technology for 32nm-Generation and Beyond

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fujitsu Laboratories announced today the development of power-saving CMOS technology for logic LSI chips for 32 nanometer- (32nm-) generation and beyond. The new technology enables employment ...


ORMatE returns to NRL after nearly 2 years in Earth orbit

ORMatE returns to NRL after nearly 2 years in Earth orbit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Completing an 18-month mission orbiting the Earth more than 6,000 times on-orbit the International Space Station (ISS), the Optical Reflector Material Experiment (ORMatE-1) returns to Washington, D.C., to ...


Mysterious charge transport in self-assembled monolayer transistors unraveled

Mysterious charge transport in self-assembled monolayer transistors unraveled

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An international team of researchers from the Netherlands, Russia and Austria discovered that monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs). ...


Silicon Micro-islands and Nano-spikes Channel Water on Glass Slides

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working at the nanoscale level, University of Arkansas engineering researchers have created stable superhydrophilic surfaces on a glass substrate. The surfaces, made of randomly placed and densely distributed ...