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Graphene-based system could lead to improved information processing
Jun 25, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at MIT have proposed a new system that combines ferroelectric materials - the kind often used for data storage - with graphene, a two-dimensional fo...
Two-Dimensional Atomically-Flat Transistors Show Promise for Next Generation Green Electronics
Jun 25, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, in collaboration with University of Notre Dame, have recently demonstrated the highest reported drive current on a transistor m...
Beyond Silicon: Transistors without Semiconductors
Jun 25, 2013 (SPX)
For decades, electronic devices have been getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller. It's now possible-even routine-to place millions of transistors on a single...
Making memories: Practical quantum computing moves closer to reality
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Sydney and Dartmouth College have developed a new way to design quantum memory, bringing quantum computers a step closer to rea...
Danish chemists in molecular chip breakthrough
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Electronic components built from single molecules using chemical synthesis could pave the way for smaller, faster and more green and sustainable electronic devi...
Samsung unveils hybrid Windows/Android tablet/laptop
Jun 20, 2013 (UPI)
South Korea's Samsung has unveiled a tablet it says can run both the Windows 8 and the Android operating systems. The launch of the Ativ Q with a 13.3-inch disp...
Northrop Grumman Develops New Gallium Arsenide E-Band High-Power Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman has developed new gallium arsenide (GaAs) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) high-power amplifiers operating in the E-Band communic...
New Additive Offers Near-Perfect Results as Nucleating Agent for Organic Semiconductors
Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)
Pixie dust may be the stuff of fanciful fiction, but for scientists at UC Santa Barbara's Department of Materials, a commonly used sugar-based additive has been...
First large-scale production of III-V semiconductor nanowire
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
The research team demonstrated a novel method to epitaxially synthesize structurally and compositionally homogeneous and spatially uniform ternary InAsyP1-y nan...
2-D electronics take a step forward
Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists at Rice University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have advanced on the goal of two-dimensional electronics with a method to control the growth of ...
Study suggests second life for possible spintronic materials
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Ten years ago, scientists were convinced that a combination of manganese and gallium nitride could be a key material to create spintronics, the next generation ...
Mighty Micropumps: Small but Powerful Vacuum Pumps Demonstrated
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
DARPA-funded researchers recently demonstrated the world's smallest vacuum pumps. This breakthrough technology may create new national security applications for...
'Temporal cloaking' could bring more secure optical communications
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers have demonstrated a method for "temporal cloaking" of optical communications, representing a potential tool to thwart would-be eavesdroppers and imp...
Resistivity switch is window to role of magnetism in iron-based superconductors
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered surprising changes in electrical resistivity in iron-based superconductors. The fi...
Spintronics approach enables new quantum technologies
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers, including members of the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering, highlight the power of emerging quantum technologie...
Printing innovations provide 10-fold improvement in organic electronics
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
Through innovations to a printing process, researchers have made major improvements to organic electronics - a technology in demand for lightweight, low-cost so...
Intel introduces fourth generation processors
Jun 04, 2013 (AFP)
Intel Corp. unveiled its fourth generation processors in Taipei on Tuesday in a bid to give personal computers a new lease of life amid stiff competition from s...
Intel hopes new processors can kick-start ailing PC market
Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. chip giant Intel says its new fourth-generation Core processors will serve as the foundation for a wave of new ultrabooks and 2-in-1 devices. Intel is bank...
Milwaukee-York researchers forward quest for quantum computing
May 28, 2013 (SPX)
Research teams from UW-Milwaukee and the University of York investigating the properties of ultra-thin films of new materials are helping bring quantum computin...
New Technique May Open Up an Era of Atomic-scale Semiconductor Devices
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating high-quality semiconductor thin films at the atomic scale - meaning t...
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