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Thanks for the memory: NIST takes a deep look at memristors
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
Just as the ability of one nerve cell to signal another depends on how often the cells have communicated in the recent past, the resistance of a memristor depen...
Fundamental limitation in the key material for solid-state lighting
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
Increasing the In content in InGaN quantum wells is the common approach to shift the emission of III-Nitride based LEDs towards the green and, in particular, re...
TU Wien develops new semiconductor processing technology
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
There have already been experiments in this area with porous structures made from silicon. Now, researchers at TU Wien have succeeded in developing a method for...
Understanding heat behavior in electronic devices boosts performance
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
This work shows how these metal lines heat up in a way that cannot be explained with the laws ruling heat behavior in our everyday experience. A theoretical mod...
New metal-semiconductor interface for brain-inspired computing
Feb 03, 2018 (SPX)
At the interface, this creates a spin-memristor with storage abilities, paving the way for neuromorphic computing architectures. The results were published on 2...
Method uses DNA, nanoparticles and lithography to make optically active structures
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
Using DNA as a key tool, the interdisciplinary team took gold nanoparticles of different sizes and shapes and arranged them in two and three dimensions to form ...
Artificial agent designs quantum experiments
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
For this purpose, they use the projective simulation model for artificial intelligence, developed by the group, to enable a machine to learn and act creatively....
NMRCloudQ: A quantum cloud experience on a nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computer
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
Moreover, scientists believe that quantum computers will never replace our daily, every-minute use of classical computers, but would rather serve as a substanti...
2-D tin stanene without buckling: A possible topological insulator
Feb 02, 2018 (SPX)
Nagoya, Japan - Sometimes it pays to be two-dimensional. The merits of graphene, a 2D sheet of carbon atoms, are well established. In its wake have followed a h...
Cheap metallic nanostructures enable efficient quantum dot LEDs
Jan 26, 2018 (SPX)
Professor Yong-Hoon Cho from the Department of Physics and his team succeeded in improving the efficiency of Quantum Dot (QD) Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) by de...
SK Hynix posts record quarterly net profit in Q4
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
Quarterly net profit leaped 98 percent year-on-year to 3.22 trillion won (US$3 billion), the South Korean firm said in a regulatory filing, as expanding data ce...
Intel gets lift from earnings, investors look past chip flaw
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
Intel shares climbed more than four percent to $47.13 in after-market trades that followed release of its earnings figures, despite its warning of lawsuits, cla...
US electronics innovation leaps forward via joint university microelectronics program
Jan 24, 2018 (SPX)
In a bid to power up the front end of this sequence in the vast and complex area of microelectronics, DARPA, and a consortium of industry partners in the Joint ...
Intel halts chip flaw fix due to problem with patches
Jan 22, 2018 (AFP)
Intel posted a list of chip models that could be tripped up by the patch, meant to prevent hackers from taking advantage of so-called Meltdown and Spectre flaws...
Mysteries of a promising spintronic material revealed
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
NiO is a promising material for spintronic devices, where signals are transmitted not by electrical currents but rather by spin waves, consisting of propagating...
Nanostructure boosts stability of organic thin-film transistors
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
The new structure gives thin-film transistors stability comparable to those made with inorganic materials, allowing them to operate in ambient conditions - even...
A major step forward in organic electronics
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
The first printable organic electrochemical transistors were presented by researchers at LiU as early as 2002, and research since then has progressed rapidly. S...
Quantum leap: computational approach launches new paradigm in electronic structure theory
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
By understanding the details of this motion, one can determine the amount of energy needed to transform reactants into products in a chemical reaction, or the c...
New oxide and semiconductor combination builds new device potential
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at Yale University have now grown a 2DEG system on gallium arsenide, a semiconductor that's efficient in absorbing and emitting light. This developm...
New discovery could improve brain-like memory and computing
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
In more recent years, the new types phenomena known as magnetoresistance, which is the tendency of a material to change its electrical resistance when an extern...
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