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Merging the biological and the electronic
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
Harvard scientists have, for the first, time created a type of "cyborg" tissue by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional, bio-compatible nanoscale ...
Electronic Nose Prototype Developed
Aug 29, 2012 (SPX)
Research by Nosang Myung, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, Bourns College of Engineering, has enabled a Riverside company to develop an "...
Mini-camera with maxi-brainpower
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
Torrential rapids, plunging mud holes and soaring hurdles: in the outdoor competitions at the Olympic Games, athletes pushed themselves to the limit. But it's h...
Samsung to invest 779 mn euros in Dutch chipmaker ASML
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
South Korean electronics group Samsung is to invest 779 million euros ($975 dollars) in the Dutch microchip maker ASML, with about one-third earmarked for resea...
How to feed data-hungry mobile devices? Use more antennas
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers from Rice University have unveiled a new multi-antenna technology that could help wireless providers keep pace with the voracious demands of data-hu...
Future memory
Aug 27, 2012 (SPX)
A new class of organic materials developed at Northwestern University boasts a very attractive but elusive property: ferroelectricity. The crystalline materials...
A new route to dissipationless electronics
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
A team of researchers at RIKEN and the University of Tokyo has demonstrated a new material that promises to eliminate loss in electrical power transmission. The...
Electronic Read-out of Quantum B
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
Quantum computers promise to reach computation speeds far beyond that of today's computers. As they would use quantum effects, however, they would also be susce...
NIST's speedy ions could add zip to quantum computers
Aug 16, 2012 (SPX)
Take that, sports cars! Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can accelerate their beryllium ions from zero to 100 miles per h...
IBM buys flash memory firm
Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)
IBM on Thursday announced a deal to buy a US firm specializing in high-performance solid state memory, which is fast replacing spinning disks used to store data...
NASA Goddard Team to Demonstrate Miniaturized Spectrometer-on-a-Chip
Aug 09, 2012 (SPX)
The Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) is big. It's powerful and it discovered, among other things, that Saturn's mysterious moon Enceladus was one of the v...
Dutch firm ASML clinches 1.1 bn euro deal with Taiwan's TSMC
Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)
Dutch-based ASML, a key global supplier of computer chip-making systems, said Sunday it has clinched an investment deal with Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC ...
How to avoid traps in plastic electronics
Aug 02, 2012 (SPX)
Plastic electronics hold the promise of cheap, mass-produced devices. But plastic semiconductors have an important flaw: the electronic current is influenced by...
HP claims win in legal battle with Oracle
Aug 01, 2012 (AFP)
Hewlett-Packard declared victory Wednesday in a legal dispute in which it accused business software titan Oracle of reneging on a contract to use HP servers. HP...
Japan's Toshiba falls into quarterly net loss
Jul 31, 2012 (AFP)
Japan's Toshiba said Tuesday it fell into a quarterly net loss of $155 million owing to restructuring costs and the impact of a strong yen, but kept its full-ye...
Switching the state of matter
Jul 30, 2012 (SPX)
Sixty years after the transistor began a technological revolution that transformed nearly every aspect of our daily lives, a new transistor brings innovations t...
World's smallest semiconductor laser created by University of Texas scientists
Jul 30, 2012 (SPX)
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed the world's smallest semiconductor laser, ...
Printed photonic crystal mirrors shrink on-chip lasers down to size
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections...
UK research paves way to a scalable device for quantum information processing
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at NPL have demonstrated for the first time a monolithic 3D ion microtrap array which could be scaled up to handle several tens of ion-based quantum...
New ultracapacitor delivers a jolt of energy at a constant voltage
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
Chemical batteries power many different mobile electronic devices, but repeated charging and discharging cycles can wear them out. An alternative energy storage...
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