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Ferroelectric Materials Suffer Unexpected Electric Polarizations
Aug 21, 2014 (SPX)
Electronic devices with unprecedented efficiency and data storage may someday run on ferroelectrics-remarkable materials that use built-in electric polarization...
From eons to seconds, proteins exploit the same forces
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
Nature's artistic and engineering skills are evident in proteins, life's robust molecular machines. Scientists at Rice University have now employed their unique...
Can our computers continue to get smaller and more powerful?
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
From their origins in the 1940s as sequestered, room-sized machines designed for military and scientific use, computers have made a rapid march into the mainstr...
Could hemp nanosheets topple graphene for making the ideal supercapacitor?
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy an...
Graphene-based planar micro-supercapacitors for on-chip energy storage
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
The rapid development of miniaturized portable electronic devices, such as micro-electromechanical systems, microrobots and implantable medical devices, has sti...
Pairing old technologies with new for next-generation electronic devices
Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)
UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons in semi-conducting materials,...
Diamonds are a Quantum Computer's Best Friend
Aug 12, 2014 (SPX)
The Quantum Computer is the Holy Grail of quantum technology. Its computing power would eclipse even the fastest classical computers we have today. A team of re...
SyNAPSE Program Develops Advanced Brain-Inspired Chip
Aug 11, 2014 (SPX)
DARPA-funded researchers have developed one of the world's largest and most complex computer chips ever produced-one whose architecture is inspired by the neuro...
Tiny chip mimics brain, delivers supercomputer speed
Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)
Researchers Thursday unveiled a powerful new postage-stamp size chip delivering supercomputer performance using a process that mimics the human brain. The so-ca...
Diamond defect interior design
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
By carefully controlling the position of an atomic-scale diamond defect within a volume smaller than what some viruses would fill, researchers have cleared a pa...
NIST ion duet offers tunable module for quantum simulator
Aug 07, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a pas de deux of atomic ions that combines the fine choreography of da...
On-chip topological light
Aug 05, 2014 (SPX)
Topological transport of light is the photonic analog of topological electron flow in certain semiconductors. In the electron case, the current flows around the...
Spin-based electronics: New material successfully tested
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Spintronics is an emerging field of electronics, where devices work by manipulating the spin of electrons rather than the current generated by their motion. Thi...
German chip-maker Infineon ups full-year forecast
Jul 30, 2014 (AFP)
German semiconductor maker Infineon revised slightly upward its annual forecast on Wednesday after reporting higher third-quarter earnings and sales. Net income...
Layered 2D crystals might enable superconductors at high temps
Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)
An elusive state of matter called superconductivity could be realized in stacks of sheetlike crystals just a few atoms thick, a trio of physicists has determine...
'Comb on a chip' powers new NIST/Caltech atomic clock design
Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a new design for a...
The birth of topological spintronics
Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)
The discovery of a new material combination that could lead to a more efficient approach to computer memory and logic will be described in the journal Nature on...
Unleashing the power of quantum dot triplets
Jul 25, 2014 (SPX)
Quantum computers have yet to materialise. Ye, scientists are making progress in devising suitable means of making such computers faster. One such approach reli...
Quantum leap in lasers brightens future of quantum computing
Jul 24, 2014 (SPX)
Dartmouth scientists and their colleagues have devised a breakthrough laser that uses a single artificial atom to generate and emit particles of light. The lase...
Technique simplifies the creation of high-tech crystals
Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)
Highly purified crystals that split light with uncanny precision are key parts of high-powered lenses, specialized optics and, potentially, computers that manip...
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