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Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles - such as those made from iron and platinum atoms - are promising materials for next-generation ...
Three magnetic states for each hole
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
Nanometer-scale magnetic perforated grids could create new possibilities for Computing. Together with international colleagues, scientists from the Helmholtz Ze...
1,000 times more efficient nano-LED opens door to faster microchips
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
The electronic data connections within and between microchips are increasingly becoming a bottleneck in the exponential growth of data traffic worldwide. Optica...
Scientists determine precise 3-D location 23,000 atoms in a nanoparticle
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists used one of the world's most powerful electron microscopes to map the precise location and chemical type of 23,000 atoms in an extremely small partic...
NIST updates 'sweet' 1950s separation method to clean nanoparticles from organisms
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Sometimes old-school methods provide the best ways of studying cutting-edge tech and its effects on the modern world. Giving a 65-year-old laboratory technique ...
Nanocavity and atomically thin materials advance tech for chip-scale light sources
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
When an individual uses Facebook or searches Google, the information processing happens in a large data center. Short distance optical interconnects can improve...
Creating atomic scale nanoribbons
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Silicon crystals are the semiconductors most commonly used to make transistors, which are critical electronic components used to carry out logic operations in c...
New low-cost technique converts bulk alloys to oxide nanowires
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
A simple technique for producing oxide nanowires directly from bulk materials could dramatically lower the cost of producing the one-dimensional (1D) nanostruct...
Ultra-precise chip-scale sensor detects unprecedentedly small changes at the nanoscale
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Chip scale high precision measurements of physical quantities such as temperature, pressure and refractive index have become common with nanophotonics and nanop...
New research helps to meet the challenges of nanotechnology
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Research by scientists at Swansea University is helping to meet the challenge of incorporating nanoscale structures into future semiconductor devices that will ...
Lighting up ultrathin films
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
Based on a study of the optical properties of novel ultrathin semiconductors, researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have developed a me...
Zeroing in on the true nature of fluids within nanocapillaries
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
Shrinking the investigation of objects down to the nanometer scale often reveals new properties of matter that have no equivalent for their bulk analysis. This ...
Nano-chimneys can cool circuits
Jan 06, 2017 (SPX)
A few nanoscale adjustments may be all that is required to make graphene-nanotube junctions excel at transferring heat, according to Rice University scientists....
The researchers created a tiny laser using nanoparticles
Jan 04, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at Aalto University, Finland are the first to develop a plasmonic nanolaser that operates at visible light frequencies and uses so-called dark latti...
Nanoscale 'conversations' create complex, multi-layered structures
Jan 03, 2017 (SPX)
Building nanomaterials with features spanning just billionths of a meter requires extraordinary precision. Scaling up that construction while increasing complex...
Going green with nanotechnology
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Nanotechnology offers many chances to benefit the environment and health. It can be applied to save raw materials and energy, develop enhanced solar cells and m...
Nanocubes simplify printing and imaging in color and infrared
Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)
Duke University researchers believe they have overcome a longstanding hurdle to producing cheaper, more robust ways to print and image across a range of colors ...
New aspect of atom mimicry for nanotechnology applications
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
In nanotechnology control is key. Control over the arrangements and distances between nanoparticles can allow tailored interaction strengths so that properties ...
ANU demonstrates 'ghost imaging' with atoms
Dec 02, 2016 (SPX)
A team of physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have used a technique known as 'ghost imaging' to create an image of an object from atoms that ...
Supersonic spray yields new nanomaterial for bendable, wearable electronics
Nov 25, 2016 (SPX)
A new, ultrathin film that is both transparent and highly conductive to electric current has been produced by a cheap and simple method devised by an internatio...
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