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Magnetic quantum objects in a 'nano egg-box'
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
They realized a stable and regular arrangement of hundreds of thousands of fluxons - a groundbreaking progress for circuits based on fluxons. The results appear...
Hamburg researchers develop new transistor concept
Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)
The group led by Dr. Christian Klinke has now succeeded in producing transistors based on a completely different principle. They use metal nanoparticles which a...
Pulses of electrons manipulate nanomagnets and store information
Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)
New research from a German-U.S. collaboration now demonstrates such read/write ability using bursts of electrons, encoding topological energy structures robustl...
Five times the computing power
Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)
We are dealing with a programmable integrated circuit known as an "FPGA", which is an abbreviation for "field-programmable gate array". This consists of a matri...
Thinking thin brings new layering and thermal abilities to the semiconductor industry
Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)
In a significant advance, a research group from IBM successfully applied their new "controlled spalling" layer transfer technique to gallium nitride (GaN) cryst...
Breakthrough in spintronics
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
What is more: The electron has a built-in compass needle, the spin, whose orientation is capable of transmitting information very efficiently. It is protected a...
Manipulating electron spins without loss of information
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
For several years, researchers have been trying to use the spin of an electron to store and transmit information. The spin of each electron is always coupled to...
Researchers develop dynamic templates critical to printable electronics technology
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
It uses a process similar to biomineralization - the way that bones and teeth form. This technique is also eco-friendly compared with how conventional electroni...
Harnessing hopping hydrogens for high-efficiency OLEDs
Jul 14, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at Kyushu University's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) demonstrated that a molecule that slightly changes its chemical...
High-precision control of printed electronics
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers in organic electronics have a favourite material to work with: the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS, which conducts both electrons and ions. Display...
Molecular electronics scientists shatter 'impossible' record
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Electrical circuits are the basic building blocks of modern electronics, with components that control the flow of current. One of those components is the diode,...
Three-dimensional chip combines computing and data storage
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
Now, researchers at Stanford University and MIT have built a new chip to overcome this hurdle. The results are published in the journal Nature, by lead author M...
Samsung to invest $18 billion in memory chip business
Jul 04, 2017 (AFP)
The world's top maker of smartphones and memory chips will invest 20.4 trillion won ($17.7 billion) by 2021 to expand and upgrade its chip plants in the South K...
Spinning electrons open the door to future hybrid electronics
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Just as the Earth spins around its own axis, so does an electron, in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction. "Spintronics" is the name used to describe tech...
Cotton candy capillaries lead to circuit boards that dissolve when cooled
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
Professor Leon Bellan's idea is to dissolve them with neglect: Stop applying heat, and they come apart. Using silver nanowires embedded in a polymer that dissol...
2-D material's traits could send electronics spinning in new directions
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The material - known as 1T'-WTe2 - bridges two flourishing fields of research: that of so-called 2-D materials, which include monolayer materials such as graphe...
Atomic imperfections move quantum communication network closer to reality
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
The work advances the possibility of applying quantum mechanical principles to existing optical fiber networks for secure communications and geographically dist...
Research accelerates quest for quicker, longer-lasting electronics
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
In a paper published in "Science Advances," Jing Shi, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues at Massach...
To connect biology with electronics, be rigid, yet flexible
Jun 23, 2017 (SPX)
That conclusion might crop up during divorce proceedings, or describe a diplomatic row. But scientists designing polymers that can bridge the biological and ele...
New design improves performance of flexible wearable electronics
Jun 23, 2017 (SPX)
Wearable devices used to monitor a variety of health and environmental measures are becoming increasingly popular. The performance and efficiency of flexible de...
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