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New silicon memory chip developed
May 24, 2012 (SPX)
The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions - opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - ...
Stanford bioengineers create rewritable digital data storage in DNA
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
Sometimes, remembering and forgetting are hard to do. "It took us three years and 750 tries to make it work, but we finally did it," said Jerome Bonnet, PhD, of...
Full control of plastic transistors
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
In an article in the highly ranked interdisciplinary journal PNAS, Loig Kergoat, a researcher at Linkoping University, describes how transistors made of plastic...
Researchers map path to quantum electronic devices
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
A team of Duke University engineers has created a master "ingredient list" describing the properties of more than 2,000 compounds that might be combined to crea...
Fast, low-power, all-optical switch
May 07, 2012 (SPX)
An optical switch developed at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) spurs the prospective integration of photonics and electronics. What, isn't electronics good en...
SK Hynix pulls out of bid for Japan's Elpida
May 04, 2012 (AFP)
South Korea's SK Hynix, the world's second largest microchip maker, said Friday it had pulled out of its bid for ailing Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory. "We de...
Electric charge disorder: A key to biological order?
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
Theoretical physicist Ali Naji from the IPM in Tehran and the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues have shown how small random patches of disordered,...
Kill Story
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
With new design, bulk semiconductor proves it can take the heat
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
The intense interest in harvesting energy from heat sources has led to a renewed push to discover materials that can more efficiently convert heat into electric...
Electron politics: Physicists probe organization at the quantum level
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
A new study this week finds that "quantum critical points" in exotic electronic materials can act much like polarizing "hot button issues" in an election. Repor...
X-rays reveal molecular arrangements for better printable electronics
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
By employing powerful X-rays that can see down to the molecular level of organic materials used in printable electronics, researchers are now able to determine ...
New technique efficiently creates single photons for quantum information processing
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
Using lasers to excite just one atom from a cloud of ultra-cold rubidium gas, physicists have developed a new way to rapidly and efficiently create single photo...
ORNL microscopy yields first proof of ferroelectricity in simplest amino acid
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection by researchers at Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory of ferr...
DNA origami puts a smart lid on solid-state nanopore sensors
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
The latest advance in solid-state nanopore sensors - devices that are made with standard tools of the semiconductor industry yet can offer single-molecule sensi...
Controlling heat flow with atomic-level precision
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
Through a combination of atomic-scale materials design and ultrafast measurements, researchers at the University of Illinois have revealed new insights about ho...
Stable Electrodes for Improving Printed Electronics
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
Imagine owning a television with the thickness and weight of a sheet of paper. It will be possible, someday, thanks to the growing industry of printed electroni...
Metal oxides hold the key to cheap, green energy
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
Harnessing the energy of sunlight can be as simple as tuning the optical and electronic properties of metal oxides at the atomic level by making an artificial c...
Low-cost optical components through nanoimprinting lithography
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
The development of new applications based on nanoimprinting techniques (NIL) is evolving at a rapid pace. But what are the challenges to be overcome in order to...
Graphene lenses: 2-D electron shepherds
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
Graphene, the one-atom-thick "wonder material" made of carbon, has another potential use in the world of high-speed electronics - as a tool that can focus a str...
A new kind of quantum junction
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
A new type of quantum bit called a "phase-slip qubit", devised by researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute and their collaborators, has enabled the w...
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