News tagged with thermal memory

Team controls thermal fluctuations with spin current

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the University of Muenster, and West Virginia University have demonstrated control of magnetic thermal fluctuations ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Greener memory from random motion

Random thermal fluctuations in magnetic memory can be harnessed to reduce the energy required to store information, according to an experiment reported in the current issue of Physical Review Letters. The de ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists Propose Thermal Memory to Store Data

Most computers today store memory electronically, by maintaining a certain voltage. In contrast, a new kind of memory that stores data thermally, by maintaining temperature, is being investigated by researchers Lei Wang of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 weblog




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Model analyzes shape-memory alloys for use in earthquake-resistant structures

Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers are analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Manipulating the texture of magnetism

Knowing how to control the combined magnetic properties of interacting electrons will provide the basis to develop an important tool for advancing spintronics: a technology that aims to harness these properties ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Magnetic random-access memory based on new spin transfer technology achieves higher storage density

Solid-state memory is seeing an increase in demand due to the emergence of portable devices such as tablet computers and smart phones. Spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (STT-MRAM) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Intel begins shipping new Atom processors

Intel today announced the availability of the latest mobile Intel Atom processor-based platform, formerly codenamed "Cedar Trail." Designed to provide small, compact, on-the-go computing with great battery life at an affordable ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Imec reports smallest fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM cell

At today's 2011 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), imec presents the world’s smallest, fully-functional HfO2-based Resistive RAM (RRAM) cell, with an area of less than 10x10nm². The new cell shows ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

IBM researchers demonstrate future of computing with graphene, racetrack and carbon nanotube breakthroughs

Today at IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IBM scientists unveiled several exploratory research breakthroughs that could lead to major advancements in delivering dramatically smaller, faster and more powerful computer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Magnetic nanoswitch for thermoelectric voltages

The heat which occurs in tiny computer processors might soon be no longer useless or even a problem. On the contrary: It could be used to switch these processors more easily or to store data more efficiently! ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New way to store light could prove useful for optical communication

(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to its high data carrying capacity and low loss, light can serve as an ideal information carrier. However, due to the high speed at which it travels, light is difficult to store. Because ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Shape memory materials ready for mass production

Five years ago, Professor Mirko Gojic, a researcher at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, wondered what his small team of researchers could do to lower the price of 'smart metals': a type of high-tech materials that can ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Orbiter resumes use of camera

(PhysOrg.com) -- Operators of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are resuming use of the mission's highest resolution camera following a second precautionary shutdown in two weeks.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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