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Dutch high-tech group ASML reports Q1 profits slump
Apr 18, 2012 (AFP)
The Dutch company ASML, a supplier of computer chip-making systems and a global high-tech bellwether, posted on Wednesday a 28 percent drop in first-quarter pro...
UWM discovery advances graphene-based electronics
Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have discovered an entirely new carbon-based material that is synthesized from the "wond...
New X-ray technique reveals structure of printable electronics
Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)
An innovative X-ray technique has given North Carolina State University researchers and their collaborators new insight into how organic polymers can be used in...
Intel earnings beat expectations
Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)
Computer chip giant Intel Corporation on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street expectations and said its processors would soon debut in smar...
Raytheon Seeks to Triple Gallium Nitride Capabilities
Apr 16, 2012 (SPX)
Raytheon has been awarded an 18-month, $1.8 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop next-generation Gallium Nitride...
Controlling quantum tunneling with light
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have used light to help push electrons through a classically impenetrable barrier. While quantum tunnelling ...
Opening the gate to robust quantum computing
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have overcome a major hurdle facing quantum computing: how to protect quantum information from degradation by the environment while simultaneously pe...
Chips as mini Internets
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
Computer chips have stopped getting faster. In order to keep increasing chips' computational power at the rate to which we've grown accustomed, chipmakers are i...
Researcher Finds Faster, Cheaper Way To Cool Electronic Devices
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
A North Carolina State University researcher has developed a more efficient, less expensive way of cooling electronic devices - particularly devices that genera...
Quantum control protocols could lead to more accurate, larger scale quantum computations
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and t...
Quantum computer built inside a diamond
Apr 09, 2012 (SPX)
Diamonds are forever - or, at least, the effects of this diamond on quantum computing may be. A team that includes scientists from USC has built a quantum compu...
Giant piezoelectricity from ZnO materials, comparable with perovskite, was achieved
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
In recent years, with the growing concerns over environmental protection and human health, environment-friendly materials have received increasing attention, an...
Quantum information motion control is now improved
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
Physicists have recently devised a new method for handling the effect of the interplay between vibrations and electrons on electronic transport. Their paper is ...
Australian WiFi inventors win US legal battle
Apr 01, 2012 (AFP)
Australian government science body CSIRO said Sunday it had won a multi-million-dollar legal settlement in the United States to license its patented technology ...
Researchers discover a new path for light through metal
Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)
Helping bridge the gap between photonics and electronics, researchers from Purdue University have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride into transporting plasm...
More energy efficient transistors through quantum tunneling
Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Pennsylvania State University have announced breakthroughs in the development of tunneling field effect transist...
Designer lights from the physics lab
Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)
Nowadays cups of yoghurt have a note telling you that the product contains L(+)-lactic acid, one of two forms that differ in the spatial arrangement of their at...
Inner workings of magnets may lead to faster computers
Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)
Using the world's fastest light source - specialized X-ray lasers - scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and...
Solitary waves induce waveguide that can split light beams
Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have designed the first theoretical model that describes the occurrence of multiple solitary optical waves, referred to as dark photovoltaic spatial...
Silicon-carbon electrodes snap, swell, don't pop
Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)
A study that examines a new type of silicon-carbon nanocomposite electrode reveals details of how they function and how repeated use could wear them down. The s...
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