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Futuristic components on silicon chips, fabricated successfully
Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)
A team of IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland with support from colleagues in Yorktown Heights, New York has developed a relatively simple, robust and versat...
Exploiting the extraordinary properties of a new semiconductor
Jun 09, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers from Universite de Montreal, Polytechnique Montreal and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France is the first to ...
New chip makes testing for antibiotic-resistant bacteria faster, easier
Jun 03, 2015 (SPX)
We live in fear of 'superbugs': infectious bacteria that don't respond to treatment by antibiotics, and can turn a routine hospital stay into a nightmare. A 201...
A chip placed under the skin for more precise medicine
Jun 03, 2015 (SPX)
The future of medicine lies in ever greater precision, not only when it comes to diagnosis but also drug dosage. The blood work that medical staff rely on is ge...
Stanford breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers
Jun 02, 2015 (SPX)
Stanford electrical engineer Jelena Vuckovic wants to make computers faster and more efficient by reinventing how they send data back and forth between chips, w...
Collaboration could lead to biodegradable computer chips
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
Portable electronics - typically made of non-renewable, non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials - are discarded at an alarming rate in consumers' purs...
Advance in quantum error correction
May 29, 2015 (SPX)
Quantum computers are largely theoretical devices that could perform some computations exponentially faster than conventional computers can. Crucial to most des...
Avago buys Broadcom in $37 bn chipmaker tie-up
May 28, 2015 (AFP)
Singapore-based Avago Technologies announced plans Thursday to buy rival Broadcom in a $37 billion deal creating a mobile chipmaking powerhouse. The stock-and-c...
One step closer to a single-molecule device
May 28, 2015 (SPX)
Under the direction of Latha Venkataraman, associate professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, researchers have designed a new technique to create a...
Mission possible: This device will self-destruct when heated
May 25, 2015 (SPX)
Where do electronics go when they die? Most devices are laid to eternal rest in landfills. But what if they just dissolved away, or broke down to their molecula...
Cheap radio frequency antenna printed with graphene ink
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have moved graphene - the incredibly strong and conductive single-atom-thick sheet of carbon - a significant step along the path from lab bench novel...
New options for spintronic devices
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists from Paris and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch ferromagnetic domains on and off with low voltage in a structure made of two differe...
Computing at the speed of light
May 19, 2015 (SPX)
University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers and mobile devices capable of speeds millions of times faste...
Quantum 'gruyeres' for spintronics of the future
May 17, 2015 (SPX)
They are 'strange' materials, insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface. They also have properties that make them excellent candidates for the deve...
Detection of spin of atoms at room temps theoretically demonstrated
May 17, 2015 (SPX)
For the first time, a researcher at the University of Waterloo has theoretically demonstrated that it is possible to detect a single nuclear spin at room temper...
Tuning up Rydberg atoms for quantum information applications
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
Rydberg atoms, atoms whose outermost electrons are highly excited but not ionized, might be just the thing for processing quantum information. These outsized at...
3-D microbattery suitable for large-scale on-chip integration
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
By combining 3D holographic lithography and 2D photolithography, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a high-perfor...
Putting a new spin on plasmonics
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Finland's Aalto University have discovered a novel way of combining plasmonic and magneto-optical effects. They experimentally demonstrated that ...
The next step in DNA computing: GPS mapping
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
Conventional silicon-based computing, which has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent decades, is pushing against its practical limits. DNA computing could hel...
Improving organic transistors that drive flexible and conformable electronics
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
A revolution is coming in flexible electronic technologies as cheaper, more flexible, organic transistors come on the scene to replace expensive, rigid, silicon...
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