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New Research Leads To Multifunctional Spintronic Smart Sensors
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
Research from a team led by North Carolina State University is opening the door to smarter sensors by integrating the smart material vanadium dioxide (VO2) onto...
Helical electron and nuclear spin order in quantum wires
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists at the University of Basel have observed a spontaneous magnetic order of electron and nuclear spins in a quantum wire at temperatures of 0.1 kelvin. ...
New way to measure electron pair interactions
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
Shoot a beam of light or particles at certain special materials and you will liberate electrons -- pairs of them -- a phenomenon known as "electron pair emissio...
Ballistic transport in graphene suggests new type of electronic device
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry ele...
Diamond defect boosts quantum technology
Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)
New research shows that a remarkable defect in synthetic diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition allows researchers to measure, witness, and potentially m...
Integration brings quantum computer a step closer
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
An international research group led by the University of Bristol has made an important advance towards a quantum computer by shrinking down key components and i...
New quantum dots herald a new era of electronics operating on a single-atom level
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
New types of solotronic structures, including the world's first quantum dots containing single cobalt ions, have been created and studied at the Faculty of Phys...
Dutch hi-tech group ASML profits dip despite record sales
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
Dutch computer chip maker and global high-tech bellwether ASML on Wednesday posted a drop in profit for 2013, despite record sales in the fourth quarter. Net pr...
New Technique for Probing Subsurface Electronic Structure
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
"The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layer...
2-proton bit controlled by a single copper atom
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
Just a single foreign atom located in the vicinity of a molecule can change spatial arrangement of its atoms. In a spectacular experiment, an international team...
Intel to cut staff in face of stagnant earnings
Jan 17, 2014 (AFP)
US chip giant Intel said Friday it will trim its workforce by five percent this year as it shifts from personal computers to powering mobile gadgets. Word of th...
Eye-catching electronics
Jan 16, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at ETH are developing electronic components that are thinner and more flexible than before. They can even be wrapped around a single hair without da...
Fastest organic transistor heralds new generation of see-through electronics
Jan 16, 2014 (SPX)
Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world's fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has t...
Ultra-flexible chip can be wrapped around a hair
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
Scientists in Switzerland said Tuesday they can create electronic chips so flexible they can be wrapped around a human hair. The technique entails building an e...
Exfoliation method paves way for 2D materials to be used in printable photonics and electronics
Jan 06, 2014 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has successfully developed a method to chemically exfoliate molybdenum disulfide crystals, ...
The analogue of a tsunami for telecommunication
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
Development of electronics and communication requires a hardware base capable for increasingly larger precision, ergonomics and throughput. For communication an...
Low-power tunneling transistor for high-performance devices at low voltage
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
A new type of transistor that could make possible fast and low-power computing devices for energy-constrained applications such as smart sensor networks, implan...
Theorists Predict New State of Quantum Matter May Have Big Impact on Electronics
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
Constantly losing energy is something we deal with in everything we do. If you stop pedaling a bike, it gradually slows; if you let off the gas, your car also s...
Sharpening the focus in quantum photolithography
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
Photolithography uses light beams to design thin geometric patterns on the substrates of semiconductors used in microelectronic devices. This is achieved using ...
Bio-inspired method to grow high-quality graphene for high-end electronic devices
Dec 17, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Professor Loh Kian Ping, who heads the Department of Chemistry at the NUS Faculty ...
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