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Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
Electrons are so 20th century. In the 21st century, photonic devices, which use light to transport large amounts of information quickly, will enhance or even re...
Researchers grow nanocircuitry with semiconducting graphene nanoribbons
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
In a development that could revolutionize electronic ciruitry, a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U.S. Department of Energ...
Chemical microdroplet computers are easier to teach than to design
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in cooperation with the Institute of Physics of the PAS and the ...
EU clears chipmaker Intel's $16.7 bn buyout of Altera
Oct 14, 2015 (AFP)
EU regulators on Wednesday cleared Intel, the world's biggest chipmaker, to buy US firm Altera for $16.7 billion in one of the largest ever Silicon Valley deals...
New optoelectronic probe enables communication with neural microcircuits
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
Brown University researchers have created a new type of optoelectronic implantable device to access brain microcircuits, synergizing a technique that enables sc...
Scientists paint quantum electronics with beams of light
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and the Pennsylvania State University have accidentally discovered a new way of using light to draw and eras...
Room temperature magnetic skyrmions, a new type of digital memory
Oct 09, 2015 (SPX)
An exotic, swirling object with the sci-fi name of a "magnetic skyrmion" could be the future of nanoelectronics and memory storage. Physicists at UC Davis and t...
Organic semiconductors get weird at the edge
Oct 08, 2015 (SPX)
As the push for tinier and faster electronics continues, a new finding by University of British Columbia scientists could help inform the design of the next gen...
Liquid cooling moves onto the chip for denser electronics
Oct 07, 2015 (SPX)
Using microfluidic passages cut directly into the backsides of production field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, Georgia Institute of Technology research...
Nanoscale photodetector could boost capacity of photonic circuits
Oct 07, 2015 (SPX)
Photonic circuits, which use light to transmit signals, are markedly faster than electronic circuits. Unfortunately, they're also bigger. It's difficult to loca...
Crucial hurdle overcome in quantum computing
Oct 07, 2015 (SPX)
The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears in the international journal Nature. "What we have is a game ch...
Graphene teams up with 2D crystals for faster data communications
Oct 07, 2015 (SPX)
Ultra-fast detection of light lies at the heart of optical communication systems nowadays. Driven by the internet of things and 5G, data communication bandwidth...
Semiconductor nanoparticles show high luminescence in a polymer matrix
Oct 06, 2015 (SPX)
Semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots (QDs) are increasingly being used as photoluminescent materials in bio-imaging, photonics, and optoelectronic a...
Performance cloning boosts computer chip memory systems design
Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)
North Carolina State University researchers have developed software using two new techniques to help computer chip designers improve memory systems. The techniq...
New way of retaining quantum memories stored in light
Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)
A team of Chinese physicists has now developed a way to confine light. This is significant because the approach allows quantum memories stored within photons to...
New processes in modern ReRAM memory cells decoded
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
Resistive memory cells or ReRAMs for short are deemed to be the new super information-storage solution of the future. At present, two basic concepts are being p...
A different type of 2-D semiconductor
Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)
To the growing list of two-dimensional semiconductors, such as graphene, boron nitride, and molybdenum disulfide, whose unique electronic properties make them p...
Physicists find new explanation for key experiment
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
An experiment at Tohoku University (Japan) in 2008 laid the foundations for research on 'spin caloritronics' - a field that aims to develop more effective and e...
Researchers set speed records for zinc-based transistors with argon plasma process
Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)
If you're reading this story on a screen with a liquid crystal display, thank thin-film transistors. Thin-film transistors function like standard semiconductor ...
First circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip
Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)
Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of small, portable sensors that could exp...
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