CHIP TECH - NANO DAILY

Mar 16, 2014 (SPX)

Imagine that you are in a meeting with coworkers or at a gathering of friends. You pull out your cell phone to show a presentation or a video on YouTube. But yo...

Toshiba sues South Korean rival for corporate spying

Mar 14, 2014 (AFP)

Japan's Toshiba has slapped South Korean rival SK Hynix with a lawsuit seeking damages claiming that it received sensitive trade secrets from a Japanese enginee...

Scientists build thinnest-possible LEDs to be stronger, more energy efficient

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

Most modern electronics, from flat-screen TVs and smartphones to wearable technologies and computer monitors, use tiny light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. These LED...

Rice synthetic biologists shine light on genetic circuit analysis

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

In a significant advance for the growing field of synthetic biology, Rice University bioengineers have created a toolkit of genes and hardware that uses colored...

Two-dimensional material shows promise for optoelectronics

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

A team of MIT researchers has used a novel material that's just a few atoms thick to create devices that can harness or emit light. This proof-of-concept could ...

LED lamps: less energy, more light

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

LEDs are durable and save energy. Now researchers have found a way to make LED lamps even more compact while supplying more light than commercially available mo...

Rough surface could keep small electronic parts from sticking together

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

When a piece of gift-wrapping tape sticks to itself, it's frustrating, but when small parts in a microgear or micromotor stick together, an electronic device ma...

Lockheed Martin, University of Maryland to Develop Next Gen Quantum Computer

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin and the University of Maryland are partnering to develop an integrated quantum computing platform that has the potential to enhance fields rangi...

D-Wave chip passes rigorous quantum-ness tests

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

With cutting-edge technology, sometimes the first step scientists face is just making sure it actually works as intended. The USC Viterbi School of Engineering ...

Electronics based on a 2-D electron gas

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Usually, microelectronic devices are made of silicon or similar semiconductors. Recently, the electronic properties of metal oxides have become quite interestin...

Taiwan's TSMC making chips for new iPhone: report

Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has started producing chips for Apple's next iPhone, a report said Wednesday, as speculation swirls that the US firm could...

A cavity that you want

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

Associated with unhappy visits to the dentist, "cavity" means something else in the branch of physics known as optics. Put simply, an optical cavity is an arran...

Tiny, Cheap, Foolproof: Seeking New Component to Counter Counterfeit Electronics

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

Used and non-authentic counterfeit electronic components are widespread throughout the defense supply chain; over the past two years alone, more than one millio...

Controlling the Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Mott Thin Films

Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)

"Mottronics" is a term seemingly destined to become familiar to aficionados of electronic gadgets. Named for the Nobel laureate Nevill Francis Mott, Mottronics ...

A Step Closer to a Photonic Future

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

The future of computing may lie not in electrons, but in photons - that is, in microprocessors that use light instead of electrical signals. But these so-called...

Magnetism and an Electric Field

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

There is a big effort in industry to produce electrical devices with more and faster memory and logic. Magnetic memory elements, such as in a hard drive, and in...

Flexible 1D-1R Memory Cell Array Assists Development of Wearable Computers

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

With the introduction of curved smartphones, flexible electronic goods are gradually moving to the center stages of various markets. Flexible display technology...

Better cache management could improve chip performance, cut energy use

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

Computer chips keep getting faster because transistors keep getting smaller. But the chips themselves are as big as ever, so data moving around the chip, and be...

Raytheon kicks off 15th year of GaN innovation

Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)

Raytheon has embarked on its fifteenth year of pioneering the development and system integration of gallium nitride (GaN) technology. In 1999, Raytheon commence...

Stirring-up atomtronics in a quantum circuit

Feb 18, 2014 (SPX)

Atomtronics is an emerging technology whereby physicists use ensembles of atoms to build analogs to electronic circuit elements. Modern electronics relies on ut...