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Berkeley Lab scientists grow atomically thin transistors and circuits
Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)
In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies- and possibly paper-thin gadgets - scientists with the U.S. Dep...
New discovery could better predict how semiconductors weather abuse
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
Mimicking nature is not easy, but new insights by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could help crea...
Building a better bowtie
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
Bowtie-shaped nanoparticles made of silver may help bring the dream of quantum computing and quantum information processing closer to reality. These nanostructu...
Researchers develop key power-splitting component for terahertz waves
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
One of the most basic components of any communications network is a power splitter that allows a signal to be sent to multiple users and devices. Researchers fr...
Oracle told to pay HP billions in chip dispute
Jul 01, 2016 (AFP)
A California jury on Thursday ordered business software giant Oracle to pay Hewlett Packard Enterprise $3.1 billion for backing off a promise to support data se...
New, better way to build circuits for world's first useful quantum computers
Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)
The era of quantum computers is one step closer as a result of research published in the current issue of the journal Science. The research team has devised and...
Scientists engineer tunable DNA for electronics applications
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
DNA may be the blueprint of life, but it's also a molecule made from just a few simple chemical building blocks. Among its properties is the ability to conduct ...
Chip makes parallel programs run faster with less code
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Computer chips have stopped getting faster. For the past 10 years, chips' performance improvements have come from the addition of processing units known as core...
World's first 1,000-processor chip
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
A microchip containing 1,000 independent programmable processors has been designed by a team at the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical an...
Circuit technology that resolves issues with high-frequency piezoelectric resonators
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
In collaboration with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Associate Professor Hiroyuki Ito and Professor Kazuya Masu, et...
Scientific gains may make electronic nose the next everyday device
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE) at UT Dallas are working to develop an affordable electronic nose that can be used in breath analys...
Finessing Miniaturized Magnetics into the Microelectronics Mix
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
A newly-announced DARPA program is betting that unprecedented on-chip integration of workhorse electronic components, such as transistors and capacitors, with l...
Spintronics: Resetting the future of heat assisted magnetic recording
Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)
This paves the way to fast and energy efficient ultrahigh density data storage. The results are published now in the new journal Physical Review Applied. To inc...
ASML microchips to buy Taiwan's HMI for 2.7 bn euros
Jun 16, 2016 (AFP)
Dutch computer chip maker and global hi-tech bellwether ASML announced Thursday it will buy Taiwanese chip inspection firm HMI in a multi-billion-euro deal, as ...
Ferroelectric materials react unexpectedly to strain
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Up until recently, researchers thought they had the behaviors of ferroelectric materials mostly figured out. "The conventional wisdom is that you can put almost...
World-first pinpointing of atoms at work for quantum computers
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists can now identify the exact location of a single atom in a silicon crystal, a discovery that is key for greater accuracy in tomorrow's silicon based q...
Analogue quantum computation digitized using superconducting circuits
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
The QUTIS group, led by the Ikerbasque professor Enrique Solano, is a world leader in theoretical proposals for quantum simulation and quantum computation with ...
Controlling quantum states atom by atom
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
An international consortium led by researchers at the University of Basel has developed a method to precisely alter the quantum mechanical states of electrons w...
Novel energy inside a microcircuit chip
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed an extremely efficient small-size energy storage, a micro-supercapacitor, which can be integrated directly in...
Spintronics development gets boost with new findings into ferromagnetism in Mn-doped GaAs
Jun 09, 2016 (SPX)
A research group at Tohoku University's WPI-AIMR has succeeded in finding the origin and the mechanism of ferromagnetism in Mn-doped GaAs. The discovery is sign...
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