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Penn engineers enable 'bulk' silicon to emit visible light for the first time

Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)

Electronic computing speeds are brushing up against limits imposed by the laws of physics. Photonic computing, where photons replace comparatively slow electron...

Technique for cooling molecules may be a stepping stone to quantum computing

Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)

The next generation of computers promises far greater power and faster processing speeds than today's silicon-based based machines. These "quantum computers" - ...

TED brings innovation talk to Intel

Mar 28, 2013 (AFP)

Intel researcher Jennifer Healey stepped onto a stage decorated with a mad scientist's lab in mind and made her case for gossiping cars. Her place was soon take...

Electronics and High-Performance Computing Communities Sought for Microfluidic Cooling Demo

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

The increased density of electronic components and subsystems in military electronic systems exacerbates the thermal management challenges facing engineers. The...

UMass Amherst Researchers Reveal Mechanism of Novel Biological Electron Transfer

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

When researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by microbiologist Derek Lovley discovered that the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens conducts e...

Electrical signals dictate optical properties

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have created an artificial material, a metamaterial, with optical propertie...

Oregon researchers synthesize negative-charge carrying molecular structures

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

University of Oregon chemists have synthesized organic molecular structures that move both positive and negative electrical charges - a highly desired but often...

Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Metamaterials to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have once again demonstrated the incredible capabili...

Fantastic flash memory combines graphene and molybdenite

Mar 21, 2013 (SPX)

EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties - graphene and molybdenite - into a flash memory prototype that is very prom...

NIST microscope measures nanomagnet property vital to 'spintronics'

Mar 19, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscope able to view and measure an important but elusive prope...

Surprising Control over Photoelectrons from a Topological Insulator

Mar 18, 2013 (SPX)

Plain-looking but inherently strange crystalline materials called 3D topological insulators (TIs) are all the rage in materials science. Even at room temperatur...

Ultra-high-speed optical communications link sets new power efficiency record

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

Ultrafast supercomputers that operate at speeds 100 times faster than current systems are now one step closer to reality. A team of IBM researchers working on a...

Organic nanowires open the way for optoelectronic device miniaturization

Mar 15, 2013 (SPX)

Research team of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, developed high-performance organic phototransistors (OPTs) base...

New distance record for 400 Gb/s data transmission

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

As network carriers debate the next Ethernet standard-and whether transmission speeds of 400 gigabit per second or 1 terabit per second should be the norm-engin...

NIST mechanical micro-drum used as quantum memory

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

One of the oldest forms of computer memory is back again-but in a 21st century microscopic device designed by physicists at the National Institute of Standards ...

Quantum computing moves forward

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

New technologies that exploit quantum behavior for computing and other applications are closer than ever to being realized due to recent advances, according to ...

UCSB physicists make discovery in the quantum realm

Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara are manipulating light on superconducting chips, and forging new pathways to building the quantum devices of the future -- includ...

Creating indestructible self-healing circuits

Mar 12, 2013 (SPX)

Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from problems ranging from less...

Improving Electronics by Solving Nearly Century-old Problem

Mar 11, 2013 (SPX)

A University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering professor and a team of researchers published a paper that shows how they solved an almost c...

First discovery of a natural topological insulator

Mar 08, 2013 (SPX)

In a step toward understanding and exploiting an exotic form of matter that has been sparking excitement for potential applications in a new genre of supercompu...