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'Internet of Things' chipmakers to merge in $4 bn deal
Dec 01, 2014 (AFP)
Chipmakers Cypress Semiconductor and Spansion announced plans to merge Monday in a $4 billion deal bringing together two key makers of components for "Internet ...
Global quantum communications -- no longer the stuff of fiction?
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Neither quantum computers nor quantum cryptography will become prevalent technologies without memory systems able to manipulate quantum information easily and e...
German chip-maker Infineon sees growth after solid Q4
Nov 27, 2014 (AFP)
German semiconductors giant Infineon said Thursday it will pay an increased dividend for the year to September and forecasts further sales growth after a solid ...
Making a sound loud enough to bend light on a computer chip
Nov 27, 2014 (SPX)
During a thunderstorm, we all know that it is common to hear thunder after we see the lightning. That's because sound travels much slower (768 miles per hour) t...
Inorganic-based laser lift-off enables flexible electronics
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
Flexible electronics have been touted as the next generation in electronics in various areas, ranging from consumer electronics to bio-integrated medical device...
New device could make large biological circuits practical
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have made great progress in recent years in the design and creation of biological circuits -- systems that, like electronic circuits, can take a num...
Researchers engineer improvements of technology used in DRAM
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
The improvements in random access memory that have driven many advances of the digital age owe much to the innovative application of physics and chemistry at th...
Giving LEDs a cozy, warm glow
Nov 24, 2014 (SPX)
When the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded this October to three Japanese-born scientists for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs), the priz...
New technique to help produce next-generation photonic chips
Nov 17, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a new technique to help produce more reliable and robust next generation photonic chips. Photonic ...
Magic tricks created using artificial intelligence for the first time
Nov 17, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers working on artificial intelligence at Queen Mary University of London have taught a computer to create magic tricks. The researchers gave a computer...
Researchers create and control spin waves for enhanced data processing
Nov 17, 2014 (SPX)
A team of New York University and University of Barcelona physicists has developed a method to control the movements occurring within magnetic materials, which ...
Self-doping may be the key to superconductivity in room temperature
Nov 14, 2014 (SPX)
Swedish materials researchers at Linkoping and Uppsala University and Chalmers University of Technology, in collaboration with researchers at the Swiss Synchrot...
New way to move flex atomically thin semiconductors
Nov 14, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to transfer thin semiconductor films, which are only one atom thick, onto arbitrary su...
SLAC Study explains atomic action in high-temp superconductors
Nov 13, 2014 (SPX)
A study at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests for the first time how scientists might deliberately engineer superconductor...
Space: The final frontier in silicon chemistry
Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)
Silicon, which is one of the most common elements in the Earth's crust, is also sprinkled abundantly throughout interstellar space. The only way to identify sil...
Heat transfer sets the noise floor for ultrasensitive electronics
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
A team of engineers and scientists has identified a source of electronic noise that could affect the functioning of instruments operating at very low temperatur...
New research lights the way to super-fast computers
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
New research published in the journal Nature Communications, has demonstrated how glass can be manipulated to create a material that will allow computers to tra...
'Direct writing' of diamond patterns from graphite a potential technological leap
Nov 07, 2014 (SPX)
What began as research into a method to strengthen metals has led to the discovery of a new technique that uses a pulsing laser to create synthetic nanodiamond ...
Clearing a path for electrons in polymers: Closing in on the speed limits
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have identified a class of low-cost, easily-processed semiconducting polymers which, despite their seemingly disorg...
Raising cryptography's standards
Nov 04, 2014 (SPX)
Most modern cryptographic schemes rely on computational complexity for their security. In principle, they can be cracked, but that would take a prohibitively lo...
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