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Polymer capacitor dazzles flash manufacturer

Mar 01, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers in Singapore have developed a prototype polymer capacitor that can store much more energy per unit volume than capacitors currently used to power ca...

MIT researchers build Quad HD TV chip

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

It took only a few years for high-definition televisions to make the transition from high-priced novelty to ubiquitous commodity - and they now seem to be headi...

Rutgers physicists test highly flexible organic semiconductors

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Organic semiconductors hold promise for making low-cost flexible electronics - conceivably video displays that bend like book pages or roll and unroll like post...

Quantum computers turn mechanical

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Ultra-fast computers of the future might consist of tiny pieces of superconducting material linked electrically to equally small mechanical resonators, the form...

Boeing Acquires CPU Tech's Microprocessor Business

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Boeing says it is continuing to address its global customers' enduring need to protect warfighters from information-assurance attacks by acquiring CPU Technolog...

Organic electronics: how to make contact between carbon compounds and metal

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Until now, however, it was practically impossible to accurately predict which molecules performed well on the job. They basically had to be identified by trial-...

New technology in the magnetic cooling of chips

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Luis Hueso, the CICnanoGUNE researcher, together with researchers from the University of Cambridge, among others, has developed a new technology in the magnetic...

New, Multifunctional Electronic Devices May Soon Be Possible

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

For the first time, researchers have designed a special material interface that has been shown to add to and to improve the functioning of non-silicon-based ele...

Graphene transistors give bioelectronics a boost

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Graphene-based transistors that respond to changes in chemical solutions could be used to link electronic devices directly to the human nervous system. That is ...

NREL and Partners Demonstrate Quantum Dots that Assemble Themselves

Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other labs have demonstrated a process whereby quantum dots can self-as...

Building a biochemistry lab on a chip

Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)

Miniaturized laboratory-on-chip systems promise rapid, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of biological samples for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and h...

Cell circuits remember their history

Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)

MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also remember the results, which are encoded in the ce...

New materials may be computer breakthrough

Feb 13, 2013 (UPI)

"Superfast" materials that shuttle information at the speed of light in quantum computers and other electronic devices are on the horizon, U.S. researchers say....

European Investments in Advanced Computing Systems Deliver Results

Feb 12, 2013 (SPX)

At the HiPEAC 2013 conference in Berlin, KALRAY demonstrated MPPA256, the world's first supercomputer-on-a-chip, consisting of 256 computing cores. This innovat...

Researchers create 'building block' of quanutm networks

Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)

A proof-of-concept device that could pave the way for on-chip optical quantum networks has been created by a group of researchers from the US. Presenting the de...

Biological circuits with memory created

Feb 11, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. researchers say they've created synthetic biological circuits from bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions but also remember the results. Eng...

A review of the rapidly evolving field of topological insulator hybrid structures

Feb 08, 2013 (SPX)

Topological insulators are novel materials that are insulating in the bulk but have surface states that are conducting. These surface states are topologically p...

Rutgers Physics Professors Find New Order in Quantum Electronic Material

Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)

Two Rutgers physics professors have proposed an explanation for a new type of order, or symmetry, in an exotic material made with uranium - a theory that may on...

3D microchip created

Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have created, for the first time, a new type of microchip which allows information to travel in three dimensions. Cu...

Rice technique points toward 2-D devices

Jan 31, 2013 (SPX)

Rice University scientists have taken an important step toward the creation of two-dimensional electronics with a process to make patterns in atom-thick layers ...