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A better method for measuring luminous efficacy of LEDs
Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have succeeded in developing a method which helps to improve the relative uncertain...
A small, inexpensive high frequency comb signal generator
Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)
The manipulation of electromagnetic radiation is an essential function of today's technology. Low frequency radiation - in the kilohertz and megahertz range - i...
LEDs that use visible light to talk to each other and internet
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
The light that typically floods homes, offices and public buildings could provide something more than illumination. Scientists at Disney Research and ETH Zurich...
An even more versatile optical chip
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
Telecommunication networks will soon reach the physical limits of current technology and in order to overcome the current bottleneck, they will have to exploit ...
First electric circuit with a magnetic insulator using spin waves
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Groningen, Utrecht University, the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale and the FOM Foundation have found that it is possible to ...
One step towards faster organic electronics
Sep 14, 2015 (SPX)
Organic electronics has many advantages: it is inexpensive, flexible and lightweight. In terms of applications, we are only limited by our imaginations. There h...
Improved stability of electron spins in qubits
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
Calculation with electron spins in a quantum computer assumes that the spin states last for a sufficient period of time. Physicists at the University of Basel a...
Super-stretchable metallic conductors for flexible electronics
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
Washington State University researchers have discovered how to stretch metal films used in flexible electronics to twice their size without breaking. The discov...
Researchers in Basel develop ideal single-photon source
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
With the help of a semiconductor quantum dot, physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new type of light source that emits single photons. For the...
Silicon nanoparticle is a new candidate for an ultrafast all-optical transistor
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists from the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials at ITMO University have experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of designing an optical an...
Teeny Tiny Guardians of Our Chips
Sep 07, 2015 (SPX)
See that black speck on the Lincoln's penny-minted nostril? And on the right, notice another three of those specks comfortably framed by the eye of a needle? Th...
Intel putting $50 mn into quantum computing research
Sep 03, 2015 (AFP)
US chip colossus Intel on Thursday said that it will put $50 million and engineering resources into an alliance on quantum computing that could radically advanc...
Modified bacteria become a multicellular circuit
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
Rice University scientists have made a living circuit from multiple types of bacteria that prompts the bacteria to cooperate to change protein expression. The s...
Superlattice design realizes elusive multiferroic properties
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
From the spinning disc of a computer's hard drive to the varying current in a transformer, many technological devices work by merging electricity and magnetism....
A little light interaction leaves quantum physicists beaming
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
A team of physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. ...
SK Hynix to invest $38 billion over 10 years
Aug 25, 2015 (AFP)
South Korea's SK Hynix Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip maker, announced Tuesday it would spend 46 trillion won (US$38 billion) in facility investme...
'Quantum dot' technology may help light the future
Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)
Advances at Oregon State University in manufacturing technology for "quantum dots" may soon lead to a new generation of LED lighting that produces a more user-f...
A thin ribbon of flexible electronics can monitor health, infrastructure
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
A new world of flexible, bendable, even stretchable electronics is emerging from research labs to address a wide range of potentially game-changing uses. The co...
Danish breakthrough brings futuristic electronics a step nearer
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
When researchers dream about electronics of the future, they more or less dream of pouring liquids into a beaker, stirring them together and decanting a compute...
Designer circuits that do more with less power
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
Demand for specialized integrated circuits for military electronics continues to surge exponentially with no end in sight. Systems that synchronize the activity...
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