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World's First Violet Nonpolar Vertical-Cavity Laser Technology
Jul 26, 2012 (SPX)
In a leap forward for laser technology, a team at University of California, Santa Barbara, has developed the first violet nonpolar vertical-cavity surface-emitt...
Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectronics than previously thought
Jul 25, 2012 (SPX)
The amount of structural damage that radiation causes in electronic materials at the atomic level may be at least ten times greater than previously thought. Tha...
Chips with self-assembling rectangles
Jul 24, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at MIT have developed a new approach to creating the complex array of wires and connections on microchips, using a system of self-assembling polymer...
Getting Amped
Jul 24, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have developed a new type of amplifier for boosting e...
Frog calls inspire a new algorithm for wireless networks
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
Males of the Japanese tree frog have learnt not to use their calls at the same time so that the females can distinguish between them. Scientists at the Polytech...
Plasmonic chains act like polymers
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
New research at Rice University that seeks to establish points of reference between plasmonic particles and polymers might lead to smaller computer chips, bette...
Unique properties of graphene lead to a new paradigm for low-power telecommunications
Jul 23, 2012 (SPX)
New research by Columbia Engineering demonstrates remarkable optical nonlinear behavior of graphene that may lead to broad applications in optical interconnects...
Carbon-Based Transistors Ramp Up Speed and Memory for Mobile Devices
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
Though smartphones and tablets are hailed as the hardware of the future, their present-day incarnations have some flaws. Most notoriously, low RAM memory limits...
Disentangling information from photons
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
Theoretical physicist Filippo Miatto and colleagues from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, have found a new method of reliably assessing the informati...
Human Eye Inspires Clog-free Ink Jet Printer Invented
Jul 20, 2012 (SPX)
Clogged printer nozzles waste time and money while reducing print quality. University of Missouri engineers recently invented a clog-preventing nozzle cover by ...
Platinum is wrong stuff for fuel cells
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
Fuel cells are inefficient because the catalyst most commonly used to convert chemical energy to electricity is made of the wrong material, a researcher at Case...
Toughened silicon sponges may make tenacious batteries
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at Rice University and Lockheed Martin reported this month that they've found a way to make multiple high-performance anodes from a single silicon w...
University of Utah physicists invent 'spintronic' LED
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
University of Utah physicists invented a new "spintronic" organic light-emitting diode or OLED that promises to be brighter, cheaper and more environmentally fr...
Keeping electric vehicle batteries cool
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
Heat can damage the batteries of electric vehicles - even just driving fast on the freeway in summer temperatures can overheat the battery. An innovative new co...
Toward Achieving One Million Times Increase in Computing Efficiency
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
Modern-day computers are based on logic circuits using semiconductor transistors. To increase computing power, smaller transistors are required. Moore's Law sta...
Intel pumps billions into computer chip tool maker
Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)
Intel Corporation on Monday announced that it will pump billions of dollars into ASML Holding during the next five years to speed up advances in tools for makin...
Japan's Renesas eyes $550 mn savings, cutting 5,000 jobs
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
Struggling Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics said Tuesday it is looking to save 43 billion yen ($550 million) annually, mostly by slashing at least 5,000 j...
Discovery of material with amazing properties
Jul 02, 2012 (SPX)
Normally a material can be either magnetically or electrically polarized, but not both. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenha...
Micron to buy troubled Japan chip-maker Elpida
Jul 02, 2012 (AFP)
US-based Micron Technology unveiled a deal Monday to buy troubled Japanese chip-making rival Elpida Memory for $2.5 billion, the companies said Monday. Micron, ...
Rewriting quantum chips with a beam of light
Jun 29, 2012 (SPX)
The promise of ultrafast quantum computing has moved a step closer to reality with a technique to create rewritable computer chips using a beam of light. Resear...
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