CHIP TECH - NANO DAILY

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To keep delivering performance improvements, chipmakers are instead giving chips more processing units, or c...

Penn researchers develop new technique for making molybdenum disulfide

Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)

Graphene, a single-atom-thick lattice of carbon atoms, is often touted as a replacement for silicon in electronic devices due to its extremely high conductivity...

Exotic states materialize with supercomputers

Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists used supercomputers to find a new class of materials that possess an exotic state of matter known as the quantum spin Hall effect. The researchers pu...

Analogue quantum computers: Still wishful thinking?

Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)

Traditional computational tools are simply not powerful enough to solve some complex optimisation problems, like, for example, protein folding. Quantum annealin...

Electronics you can wrap around your finger

Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)

Electronic devices have shrunk rapidly in the past decades, but most remain as stiff as the same sort of devices were in the 1950s -- a drawback if you want to ...

Extreme-temperature electronics

Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)

Many industries are calling for electronics that can operate reliably in a harsh environment, including extreme temperatures above 200 Celsius. Examples of the ...

Graphene displays clear prospects for flexible electronics

Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)

Published in the scientific journal Nature Materials, University of Manchester and University of Sheffield researchers show that new 2D 'designer materials' can...

Scientists devise breakthrough technique for mapping temperature in tiny devices

Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)

Overheating is a major problem for the microprocessors that run our smartphones and computers. But a team of UCLA and USC scientists have made a breakthrough th...

One-atom-thin silicon transistors hold promise for super-fast computing

Feb 09, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world's thinnest sili...

Parallelizing common algorithms

Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)

Every undergraduate computer-science major takes a course on data structures, which describes different ways of organizing data in a computer's memory. Every da...

Rediscovering spontaneous light emission

Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a nano-sized optical antenna that can greatly enhance the spontaneous emission of light from atoms, molecules and semico...

Breakthrough promises secure communications and faster computers

Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)

Unlike Bilbo's magic ring, which entangles human hearts, engineers have created a new micro-ring that entangles individual particles of light, an important firs...

New pathway to valleytronics

Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)

A potential avenue to quantum computing currently generating quite the buzz in the high-tech industry is "valleytronics," in which information is coded based on...

Researchers use oxides to flip graphene conductivity

Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)

Graphene, a one-atom thick lattice of carbon atoms, is often touted as a revolutionary material that will take the place of silicon at the heart of electronics....

Electronic circuits with reconfigurable pathways closer to reality

Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)

Will it be possible one day to reconfigure electronic microchips however we want, even when they are in use? A recent discovery by a team at EPFL suggests as mu...

Solving an organic semiconductor mystery

Jan 24, 2015 (SPX)

Organic semiconductors are prized for light emitting diodes (LEDs), field effect transistors (FETs) and photovoltaic cells. As they can be printed from solution...

Smart keyboard cleans and powers itself -- and can tell who you are

Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)

In a novel twist in cybersecurity, scientists have developed a self-cleaning, self-powered smart keyboard that can identify computer users by the way they type....

Rice-sized laser, powered one electron at a time, bodes well for quantum computing

Jan 23, 2015 (SPX)

Princeton University researchers have built a rice grain-sized laser powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots. The t...

New laser for computer chips

Jan 21, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists from Forschungszentrum Juelich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland in cooperation with international partners have presented the first sem...

Laser-induced graphene 'super' for electronics

Jan 15, 2015 (SPX)

Rice University scientists advanced their recent development of laser-induced graphene (LIG) by producing and testing stacked, three-dimensional supercapacitors...