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Researchers take giant step towards 'holy grail' of silicon photonics
Mar 21, 2016 (SPX)
A group of researchers from the UK, including academics from Cardiff University, has demonstrated the first practical laser that has been grown directly on a si...
Warming up optoelectronic research
Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)
A team of physicists from the University of California, San Diego and The University of Manchester is creating tailor-made materials for cutting-edge research a...
Overlooked resistance may inflate estimates of organic-semicon performance
Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)
It's hardly a character flaw, but organic transistors - the kind envisioned for a host of flexible electronics devices - behave less than ideally, or at least n...
Spinning better electronic devices
Mar 11, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, have demonstrated for the first time the transmission of electrical signals th...
Quantum computer factors numbers, could be scaled up
Mar 11, 2016 (SPX)
What are the prime factors, or multipliers, for the number 15? Most grade school students know the answer - 3 and 5 - by memory. A larger number, such as 91, ma...
Artificial control of exciplexes opens possibilities for new electronics
Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)
Demonstrating a strategy that could form the basis for a new class of electronic devices with uniquely tunable properties, researchers at Kyushu University were...
World's first parallel computer based on biomolecular motors
Mar 03, 2016 (SPX)
A study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports a new parallel-computing approach based on a combination of nanotechnolog...
Demystifying mechanotransduction ion channels
Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)
As blood flows through our vessels, the cells that constitute these vessels responds to the shear stress of blood flow to ensure normal circulation. This proces...
Quantum dot solids: This generation's silicon wafer
Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)
Just as the single-crystal silicon wafer forever changed the nature of communication 60 years ago, a group of Cornell researchers is hoping its work with quantu...
Topological insulators: Magnetism is not causing loss of conductivity
Feb 23, 2016 (SPX)
Topological insulators appeared to be rather well-understood from theory until now. The electrons that can only occupy "allowed" quantum states in the crystal l...
Scientists create ultrathin semiconductor heterostructures for new technologies
Feb 17, 2016 (SPX)
Heterostructures formed by different three-dimensional semiconductors form the foundation for modern electronic and photonic devices. Now, University of Washing...
Chipmaker Marvell pays $750 to settle patent suit
Feb 17, 2016 (AFP)
Semiconductor maker Marvell Technology Group said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $750 million to settle a long-running patent suit brought by Carnegie Mellon Un...
Scientists train electrons with microwaves
Feb 16, 2016 (SPX)
In what may provide a potential path to processing information in a quantum computer, researchers have switched an intrinsic property of electrons from an excit...
New thin film transistor may lead to flexible devices
Feb 11, 2016 (SPX)
An engineering research team at the University of Alberta has invented a new transistor that could revolutionize thin-film electronic devices. Their findings, p...
Chiral magnetic effect generates quantum current
Feb 10, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a new way to generate very low-resi...
Electron's 1-D metallic surface state observed
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
In the one-dimensional (1D), various exotic phenomena are predicted that are totally different from those in the 3D world in which we live. One of the reasons o...
Organic crystals allow creating flexible electronic devices
Feb 09, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the Moscow State University have grown organic semiconductor crystals which can reduce the cost of the process of crea...
Researchers develop hack-proof RFID chips
Feb 04, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have developed a new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that is virtually impossible to hack. If such c...
Taiwan approves TSMC plans for $3 bn plant in China
Feb 03, 2016 (AFP)
Taiwan on Wednesday approved a plan by its leading chipmaker to build a $3 billion plant in China using state-of-the-art technology, after easing curbs on high-...
Scientists build a neural network using plastic memristors
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the Kurchatov Institute, MIPT, the University of Parma (Italy), Moscow State University, and Saint Petersburg State University have created a ne...
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