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Revolutionary new device joins world of smart electronics
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
Smart electronics are taking the world by storm. From techno-textiles to transparent electronic displays, the world of intelligent technology is growing fast an...
Germanium made compatible
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from ETH Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Politecnico di Milano have jointly developed a manufacturing technique to render the semi...
Physicists find right (and left) solution for on-chip optics
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
A Harvard-led team of researchers has created a new type of nanoscale device that converts an optical signal into waves that travel along a metal surface. Signi...
EU launches probe into suspected chipmaker cartel
Apr 22, 2013 (AFP)
EU anti-trust authorities announced on Monday a formal cartel probe into smartcard chipmakers -- the motors for everything from bank and mobile SIM cards to ele...
Quantum computing taps nucleus of single atom
Apr 19, 2013 (SPX)
A team of Australian engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has demonstrated a quantum bit based on the nucleus of a single atom in silicon, prom...
Layered '2-D nanocrystals' promising new semiconductor
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers are developing a new type of semiconductor technology for future computers and electronics based on "two-dimensional nanocrystals" layered in sheets...
Dutch high-tech group ASML posts sharp Q1 slump
Apr 17, 2013 (AFP)
The Dutch company ASML, which supplies computer chip-making systems and is a global high-tech bellwether, posted on Wednesday sharp drops in sales and net profi...
Diamond as a Building Material for Optical Circuits
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
The application of light for information processing opens up a multitude of possibilities. However, to be able to adequately use photons in circuits and sensors...
Researchers evaluate Bose-Einstein condensates for communicating among quantum computers
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
Quantum computers promise to perform certain types of operations much more quickly than conventional digital computers. But many challenges must be addressed be...
Interdisciplinary team demonstrates superconducting qualities of topological insulators
Apr 15, 2013 (SPX)
Topological insulators (TIs) are an exciting new type of material that on their surface carry electric current, but within their bulk, act as insulators. Since ...
A step toward optical transistors?
Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)
As demand for computing and communication capacity surges, the global communication infrastructure struggles to keep pace, since the light signals transmitted t...
New 'transient electronics' disappear when no longer needed
Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists have described key advances toward practical uses of a new genre of tiny, biocompatible electronic devices that could be implanted into the body to r...
Redesigned Material Could Lead to Lighter, Faster Electronics
Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)
The same material that formed the first primitive transistors more than 60 years ago can be modified in a new way to advance future electronics, according to a ...
ORNL microscopy uncovers dancing silicon atoms in graphene
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National L...
Building quantum states with individual silicon atoms
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
By introducing individual silicon atom 'defects' using a scanning tunnelling microscope, scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single ...
KAIST develops a low-power 60 GHz radio frequency chip for mobile devices
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
As the capacity of handheld devices increases to accommodate a greater number of functions, these devices have more memory, larger display screens, and the abil...
World Record Silicon-based Millimeter-wave Power Amplifiers
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
Two teams of DARPA performers have achieved world record power output levels using silicon-based technologies for millimeter-wave power amplifiers. RF power amp...
A giant step toward miniaturization
Apr 06, 2013 (SPX)
Bottom-up synthesis of nanowires through metal-catalyzed vapor phase epitaxy is a very attractive process to generate high-quality nanowires thus providing an a...
A mighty wind
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
When a current passes between two electrodes - one thinner than the other - it creates a wind in the air between. If enough voltage is applied, the resulting wi...
Ultra-precision positioning
Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)
Ultra-precision positioning is required for the success of many scientific applications, including manufacturing semiconductors, aligning optics and manipulatin...
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