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JQI team 'gets the edge' on photon transport in silicon
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have a new way to edge around a difficult problem in quantum physics, now that a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technolog...
Tiny Sensors Put the Squeeze on Light
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Microelectromechanical systems, known as MEMS, are ubiquitous in modern military systems such as gyroscopes for navigation, tiny microphones for lightweight rad...
Quantum conductors benefit from growth on smooth foundations
Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)
Imagine if the "information superhighway" had HOV lanes so that data could be stored, processed and disseminated many times faster than possible with today's el...
Atomically Thin Device Promises New Class of Electronics
Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)
As electronics approach the atomic scale, researchers are increasingly successful at developing atomically thin, virtually two-dimensional materials that could ...
Researchers Advance Scheme to Design Seamless Integrated Circuits Etched on Graphene
Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers in electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara have introduced and modeled an integrated circuit design scheme in which transistors and ...
Size matters in the giant magnetoresistance effect in semiconductors
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
In a paper appearing in Nature's Scientific Reports, Dr. Ramesh Mani, professor of physics and astronomy at Georgia State University, reports that a giant magne...
CU, MIT breakthrough in photonics could allow for faster and faster electronics
Oct 04, 2013 (SPX)
A pair of breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mi...
Spirals of Light May Lead to Better Electronics
Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)
A group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created the optical equivalent of a tuning fork-a device that can help steady the...
Researchers demonstrate 'accelerator on a chip'
Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)
In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times...
Stanford scientists publish theory, formula to improve 'plastic' semiconductors
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
Anyone who's stuffed a smart phone in their back pocket would appreciate the convenience of electronic devices that could bend. Flexible electronics could spawn...
Counting on neodymium
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
Magnetic molecules are regarded as promising functional units for the future of information processing. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Julich and...
UCSB researchers make headway in quantum information transfer via nanomechanical coupling
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
Fiber optics has made communication faster than ever, but the next step involves a quantum leap -- literally. In order to improve the security of the transfer o...
Promising new alloy for resistive switching memory
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
Memory based on electrically-induced "resistive switching" effects have generated a great deal of interest among engineers searching for faster and smaller devi...
Graphene Photodetector Integrated into Computer Chip
Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)
The novel material graphene and its technological applications are studied at the Vienna University of Technology. Now scientists have succeeded in combining gr...
Dow Jones to part with tech news site AllThingsD
Sep 20, 2013 (AFP)
The Wall Street Journal, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, said Thursday it would split with the technology news website AllThingsD by the end of the year....
On the Road to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Sep 19, 2013 (SPX)
Reliable quantum computing would make it possible to solve certain types of extremely complex technological problems millions of times faster than today's most ...
Toward a truly white organic LED
Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)
By inserting platinum atoms into an organic semiconductor, University of Utah physicists were able to "tune" the plastic-like polymer to emit light of different...
The '50-50' chip: Memory device of the future?
Sep 17, 2013 (SPX)
A new, environmentally-friendly electronic alloy consisting of 50 aluminum atoms bound to 50 atoms of antimony may be promising for building next-generation "ph...
New magnetic semiconductor material holds promise for 'spintronics'
Sep 14, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a new compound that can be integrated into silicon chips and is a dilute magnetic semiconductor - me...
China fire rattles world chip supply chain
Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)
A fire at a giant Chinese factory making almost one sixth of the world's supply of a key high-tech component shows how vulnerable global manufacturing chains ca...
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