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A nanoscale wireless communication system via plasmonic antennas
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
The pursuit of next-generation technologies places a premium on producing increased speed and efficiency with components built at scales small enough to functio...
Electrons at the speed limit
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
Speed may not be witchcraft, but it is the basis for technologies that often seem like magic. Modern computers, for instance, are as powerful as they are becaus...
New microchip demonstrates efficiency and scalable design
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
Princeton University researchers have built a new computer chip that promises to boost performance of data centers that lie at the core of online services from ...
New theory could lead to new generation of energy friendly optoelectronics
Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have created a new theoretical framework which could help physicists and device engineers...
X-ray optics on a chip
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
Waveguides are widely used for filtering, confining, guiding, coupling or splitting beams of visible light. However, creating waveguides that could do the same ...
See-through circuitry
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
High-performance electronic circuits made entirely from transparent materials could have countless applications, from head-up displays on car windscreens to tra...
Liquid light switch could enable more powerful electronics
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have built a miniature electro-optical switch which can change the spin - or angular momentum - of a liquid form of light by applying electric field...
Prototype chip could help make quantum computing practical
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
Quantum computers are largely hypothetical devices that could perform some calculations much more rapidly than conventional computers can. Instead of the bits o...
USC quantum computing researchers reduce quantum information processing errors
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
Quantum computing remains mysterious and elusive to many, but USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers might have taken us one step closer to bring such su...
Next generation of memory chips could be 1,000 times faster
Aug 08, 2016 (UPI)
Most computers and smartphones feature two kinds of chips. One kind is built for speed and the other is built for storage. A new kind of chip promises to offer ...
Integration of novel materials with silicon chips makes new 'smart' devices possible
Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the U.S. Army Research Office have developed a way to integrate novel functional materials onto a computer ...
Tiling Chiplets into Next-Generation Microsystems
Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)
Open the hood of just about any electronic gadget and you probably will find printed circuit boards (PCBs)-most often in a leaf-green color-studded with process...
Making magnets flip like cats at room temperature
Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)
In today's world of ever-increasing digital information storage and computation, the next information storage revolution seeks to exploit a novel effect arising...
A new generation of electron devices makes waves, trillions of them each second
Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)
Normal radios operate in kilohertz (kHz) and megahertz (MHz) frequencies, bandwidths corresponding to electromagnetic oscillations in the thousands and millions...
Scientists find a way of acquiring graphene-like films from salts to boost nanoelectronics
Aug 03, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the Technological Institute for Sup...
Vortex laser offers hope for Moore's Law
Jul 29, 2016 (SPX)
Like a whirlpool, a new light-based communication tool carries data in a swift, circular motion. Described in a study published (July 28, 2016) by the journal S...
Hybrid Computers Set to Shine
Jul 27, 2016 (JPN)
The decline of the global PC market is fueling expectations that so-called 'hybrid,' or 'detachable' tablets will eventually become the next hot item. Chip maki...
Russian physicists discover a new approach for building quantum computers
Jul 27, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center have developed a method which is going to make it easier to create a universal quantum computer - they have ...
Scientists glimpse inner workings of atomically thin transistors
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
With an eye to the next generation of tech gadgetry, a team of physicists at The University of Texas at Austin has had the first-ever glimpse into what happens ...
Physicists couple distant nuclear spins using a single electron
Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)
For the first time, researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland have coupled the nuclear spins of distant atoms using just a single electron. Three re...
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