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A step towards quantum electronics
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
Work of physicists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), in which they connect...
Designer crystals for next-gen electronics
Dec 18, 2015 (SPX)
Liquid is often seen as the kryptonite of electronics, known for damaging and corroding components. That's why a new process that uses vapour- rather than liqui...
Building blocks for GaN power switches
Dec 18, 2015 (SPX)
A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capab...
NIST adds to quantum computing toolkit with mixed-atom logic operations
Dec 18, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have added to their collection of ingredients for future quantum computers by performing...
A 'hybrid' logic gate pushes quest for quantum computer forward
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Oxford team demonstrates 'hybrid' logic gate as work towards quantum computer continues. Just over a year ago, the UK government announced an investment of Poun...
Doped organic semiconductors explored
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Current semiconductor technology is based on silicon, an inorganic semiconductor material in which impurity atoms are introduced or doped for use in electronic ...
Spintronics, low-energy electricity take a step closer
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
Topological insulators are materials that let electric current flow across their surface while keeping it from passing it through their bulk. This exotic proper...
A molecular light switch - Just add water
Dec 17, 2015 (SPX)
A bit of stray moisture during an experiment tipped off scientists about the strange behavior of a complex oxide material they were studying - shedding light on...
Noise can't hide weak signals from this new receiver
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego developed a receiver that can detect a weak, fast, randomly occurring signal. The study, publish...
UC Davis scientists demonstrate DNA-based electromechanical switch
Dec 15, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of Washington have demonstrated that the conductance of DNA can be modulated b...
Columbia engineers build biologically powered chip
Dec 12, 2015 (SPX)
Columbia Engineering researchers have, for the first time, harnessed the molecular machinery of living systems to power an integrated circuit from adenosine tri...
Spin current on topological insulator detected at room temps
Dec 12, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have for the first time reported the electrical detection of spin current on topological insulator surfaces at ...
Atomically flat tunnel transistor overcomes fundamental power challenge
Dec 12, 2015 (SPX)
One of the greatest challenges in the evolution of electronics has been to reduce power consumption during transistor switching operation. In a study recently r...
Quantum computer made of standard semiconductor materials
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists at the Technical University of Munich, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University (USA) have tracked down semiconductor nanostructure...
A quantum spin on molecular computers
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
If quantum computers existed, they would revolutionize computing as we know it. Based on fundamental properties of matter, the potential power of these theoreti...
New access to the interior of electronic components
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary team at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum has found a way of accessing the interior of transistors. The researchers have manipulated the electron...
Stacking instead of mixing cools down the chips
Nov 27, 2015 (SPX)
The overheating of computer chips is a major obstacle to the development of faster and more efficient computers and mobile phones. One promising remedy for this...
Flexoelectricity is more than Moore
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
The information revolution is synonymous with the traditional quest to pack more chips and increase computing power. This quest is embodied by the famous "Moore...
Semiconductor wafers exhibit strange quantum phenomenon at room temps
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
Entanglement is one of the strangest phenomena predicted by quantum mechanics, the theory that underlies most of modern physics. It says that two particles can ...
Superconductor survives ultra-high magnetic field
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists from the universities of Groningen and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and Hong Kong have discovered that transistors made of ultrathin layers molybdeendi...
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