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A step towards keeping up with Moore's Law
Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)
Along with the fast development of modern information technology, charge-based memories, such as DRAM and flash memory, are being aggressively scaled down to me...
Switchable material could enable new memory chips
Jan 26, 2016 (SPX)
Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by appl...
Physicists develop a cooling system for the processors of the future
Jan 25, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from MIPT have found a solution to the problem of overheating of active plasmonic components. These components will be essential for high-speed data...
Molecular-like photochemistry from semiconductor nanocrystals
Jan 22, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated the transfer of triplet exciton energy from semiconductor nanocrystals to surface-bound molec...
Quantum computing is coming - are you prepared for it?
Jan 21, 2016 (SPX)
Quantum computing will change lives, society and the economy and a working system is expected to be developed by 2020 according to a leading figure in the world...
Dutch hi-tech group ASML posts 'record' year in 2015
Jan 20, 2016 (AFP)
Leading Dutch manufacturer of computer chip making systems ASML Wednesday declared 2015 a "record" year for sales which rose to 6.3 billion euros ($6.9 billion)...
Uncovering oxygen's role in enhancing red LEDs
Jan 18, 2016 (SPX)
Oxygen is indispensable to animal and plant life, but its presence in the wrong places can feed a fire and cause iron to rust. In the fabrication of solid state...
How copper makes organic light-emitting diodes more efficient
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
Use of copper as a fluorescent material allows for the manufacture of inexpensive and environmentally compatible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Thermall...
New Chips Ease Operations In Electromagnetic Environs
Jan 13, 2016 (SPX)
Competition for scarce electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is increasing, driven by a growing military and civilian demand for connected devices. As the spectrum beco...
New bimetallic alloy nanoparticles for printed electronic circuits
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
"Printed electronics" has the potential to enable low-cost fabrication of electronics on flexible or curved surfaces, which will lead to the use of electronics ...
New material for detecting photons captures more quantum information
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
Detecting individual particles of light just got a bit more precise - by 74 picoseconds to be exact - thanks to advances in materials by National Institute of S...
Succeeded in observing a two-phonon quantum interference, a world first
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
A research group at Osaka University has succeeded in observing at the intended timing two-phonon quantum interference by using two cold calcium ions in ion tra...
Optoelectronic microprocessors built using existing chip manufacturing
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
Using only processes found in existing microchip fabrication facilities, researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Col...
A new metamaterial will speed up computers
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Russian Academy of Scien...
Choreographing the dance of electrons
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated a new way of controlling electrons by confining them in a device made out of atomical...
Georgia takes out loan to purchase French air defense systems
Dec 30, 2015 (UPI)
Georgia lawmakers ratified a loan agreement outlining a $90 million loan from France to purchase air defense systems from the country. The loan, worth 82.82 mil...
Nanoworld 'snow blowers' carve straight channels in semiconductor surfaces
Dec 30, 2015 (SPX)
In the nanoworld, tiny particles of gold can operate like snow blowers, churning through surface layers of an important class of semiconductors to dig unerringl...
New liquid crystal elastomer material could enable advanced sensors
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), essentially rubbers with liquid crystal properties, can do a number of fascinating things, especially in the fields of optics,...
China develops a neuromorphic chip based on Spiking Neural Networks
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is a type of information processing system based on mimicking the principles of biological brains, and has been broadly applied ...
Creativity leads to measuring ultrafast, thin photodetector
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
Making an incredibly fast photodetector is one thing, but actually measuring its speed is another. Graduate student Haining Wang came up with an inventive way o...
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