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Toshiba: Japan's faded titan selling the family silver
Sep 14, 2017 (AFP)
"Do you work for 'that' electronics company? If so, come and work for us!" screamed the ad for Toyota. The mere fact Toshiba staff are apparently being urged to...
Trump blocks Chinese acquisition of US semiconductor firm
Sep 14, 2017 (AFP)
The acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a publicly-traded Oregon company, by Chinese-owned Canyon Bridge Fund could endanger the US government's u...
Flip-flop qubits: Radical new quantum computing design invented
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
The new chip design, detailed in the journal Nature Communications, allows for a silicon quantum processor that can be scaled up without the precise placement o...
High-tech electronics made from autumn leaves
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
The investigators used a multistep, yet simple, process to convert tree leaves into a form that could be incorporated into electrodes as active materials. The d...
Researchers validate UV light's use in improving semiconductors
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers, Kwangwook Park and Kirstin Alberi, experimented with integrating two dissimilar semiconductors into a heterostructure by using light to modify ...
High-speed switching for ultrafast electromechanical switches and sensors
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
Piezo micro electro mechanical systems (piezoMEMS) are miniaturized devices exhibiting piezoelectricity, i.e., the appearance of an electric charge under applie...
Nagoya-led team flips the switch on ferroelectrics
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
The alignment of a domain can be toggled by an electric field, which changes the position of atoms in the crystal and switches the polarization direction. These...
DARPA's Drive to Keep the Microelectronics Revolution at Full Speed Builds Its Own Momentum
Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)
"Now we are moving beyond pretty pictures and mere words, and we are rolling up our sleeves to do the hard work it will take to change the way we think about, d...
Researchers report better way to create organic bioelectronics
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers with the University of Houston and Pennsylvania State University have reported a new fabrication technique for biocompatible neural devices that all...
In new leap for AI: computer chips that can smell
Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)
What if you could skip tedious airport security lines, while a special device able to sniff out explosives works silently in the background? This is only one of...
Conformal metasurface coating eliminates crosstalk and shrinks waveguides
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
"Imagine the water faucet in your home, which is an essential every-day device," said Douglas H. Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor of Elec...
Researchers create magnetic RAM
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
A transition to the newly demonstrated type of memory could enable a substantial energy saving, as well as the instantaneous startup of devices based on this te...
Heating quantum matter: A novel view on topology
Aug 22, 2017 (SPX)
Importantly, the discovery of quantized quantities has often been associated with a revolution in our understanding and appreciation of Nature's law, a striking...
In Neptune, it's raining diamonds
Aug 22, 2017 (SPX)
For the first time ever, they were able to observe the fission of hydrocarbon and the conversion of carbon into diamonds in real time. The interior of planets l...
Single molecules can work as reproducible transistors - at room temperature
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
A team led by Latha Venkataraman, professor of applied physics and chemistry at Columbia Engineering and Xavier Roy, assistant professor of chemistry (Arts and ...
New ultrathin semiconductor materials exceed some of silicon's 'secret' powers
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
"It's a bit like rust, but a very desirable rust," said Eric Pop, an associate professor of electrical engineering, who co-authored with post-doctoral scholar M...
Single-photon emitter has promise for quantum info-processing
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
These carbon nanotube quantum light emitters may be important for optically-based quantum information processing and information security, while also being of s...
A semiconductor that can beat the heat
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
A team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered these exotic traits in a class of materia...
Saelig introduces Sol Chip autonomous, solar-powered sensor station
Aug 02, 2017 (SPX)
This ultra-compact, maintenance-free solar-powered wireless module can be installed remotely for IoT applications that require autonomous operation, such as ind...
Ultracold molecules hold promise for quantum computing
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
These two-atom molecules are made of sodium and potassium and were cooled to temperatures just a few ten-millionths of a degree above absolute zero (measured in...
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