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![]() West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 09, 2012 The smallest wires ever developed in silicon - just one atom tall and four atoms wide - have been shown by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Melbourne University and Purdue University to have the same current-carrying capability as copper wires. Experiments and atom-by-atom supercomputer models of the wires have found that the wires maintain a low capacity for resistance despite being more than 20 times thinner than conventional copper wires in microprocessors. Th ... read more |
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![]() Graphene rips follow rules Research from Rice University and the University of California at Berkeley may give science and industry a new way to manipulate graphene, the wonder material expected to play a role in advanced ele ... more | .. |
![]() Down to the wire as Silicon links shrink to atomic scale The narrowest conducting wires in silicon ever made - just four atoms wide and one atom tall - have been shown to have the same electrical current carrying capability of copper, according to a new s ... more | .. |
![]() Scientists discover graphene nanomaterials with tunable functionality in electronics Electronics are getting smaller and smaller, flirting with new devices at the atomic scale. However, many scientists predict that the shrinking of our technology is reaching an end. Without an alter ... more | .. |
Amazon takes on iPad with new Kindle Fire tablet Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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![]() Solar Power Goes Viral Catching a nasty virus certainly isn't on anyone's holiday wish list, but for solar power it might be just what the doctor ordered. With the help of a genetically modified virus, materials researche ... more | .. |
![]() The art of molecular carpet-weaving Stable two-dimensional networks of organic molecules are important components in various nanotechnology processes. However, producing these networks, which are only one atom thick, in high quality a ... more | .. |
![]() Badwater Basin: Death Valley Microbe Thrives There Nevada, the "Silver State," is well-known for mining precious metals. But scientists Dennis Bazylinski and colleagues at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) do a different type of mining. They ... more | .. |
![]() Nanoantennas show promise in optical innovations Researchers have shown how arrays of tiny "plasmonic nanoantennas" are able to precisely manipulate light in new ways that could make possible a range of optical innovations such as more powerful mi ... more |
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![]() Notre Dame researchers develop paint-on solar cells Imagine if the next coat of paint you put on the outside of your home generates electricity from light-electricity that can be used to power the appliances and equipment on the inside. A team of res ... more | .. |
![]() Boron nanoribbons reveal surprising thermal properties in bundles Size matter... but apparently so does shape - when it comes to conducting heat in very small spaces. Researchers looking at the thermal conductivity of boron nanoribbons have found that they h ... more | .. |
![]() Not Only Invisible, but Also Inaudible Progress of metamaterials in nanotechnologies has made the invisibility cloak, a subject of mythology and science fiction, become reality: Light waves can be guided around an object to be hidden, in ... more | .. |
![]() Prototype NIST device measures absolute optical power in fiber at nanowatt levels Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a prototype device capable of absolute measurements of optical power delivered through an optical fiber. ... more |
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![]() Quantum Computing Has Applications in Magnetic Imaging Quantum computing-considered the powerhouse of computational tasks-may have applications in areas outside of pure electronics, according to a University of Pittsburgh researcher and his collaborator ... more | .. |
![]() Researchers measure nanometer scale temperature Atomic force microscope cantilever tips with integrated heaters are widely used to characterize polymer films in electronics and optical devices, pharmaceuticals, paints, and coatings. These h ... more | .. |
![]() Voltage increases up to 25 percent observed in closely packed nanowires at Sandia Labs Unexpected voltage increases of up to 25 percent in two barely separated nanowires have been observed at Sandia National Laboratories. Designers of next-generation devices using nanowires to deliver ... more | .. |
![]() Researchers find best routes to self-assembling 3D shapes Material chemists and engineers would love to figure out how to create self-assembling shells, containers or structures that could be used as tiny drug-carrying containers or to build 3-D sensors an ... more |
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![]() Counting atoms with glass fiber Glass fiber cables are indispensable for the internet - now they can also be used as a quantum physics lab. The Vienna University of Technology is the only research facility in the world, where sing ... more | .. |
![]() Biocompatible graphene transistor array reads cellular signals Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a graphene-based transistor array that is compatible with living biological cells and capable of recording the electrical signals they generate. Th ... more | .. |
![]() Instant nanodots grow on silicon to form sensing array Scientists have shown that it is now possible to simultaneously create highly reproductive three-dimensional silicon oxide nanodots on micrometric scale silicon films in only a few seconds. Xa ... more | .. |
![]() UN overhaul required to govern planet's life support system Reducing the risk of potential global environmental disaster requires a "constitutional moment" comparable in scale and importance to the reform of international governance that followed World War I ... more |
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![]() UCLA researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several ... more | .. |
![]() Imperfections may improve graphene sensors Although they found that graphene makes very good chemical sensors, researchers at Illinois have discovered an unexpected "twist"-that the sensors are better when the graphene is "worse"-more imperf ... more | .. |
![]() Graphene lights up with new possibilities The future brightened for organic chemistry when researchers at Rice University found a highly controllable way to attach organic molecules to pristine graphene, making the miracle material suitable ... more | .. |
![]() Graphene earns its stripes Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) have discovered electronic stripes, called 'charge density waves', on the surface of the graphene sheets that make up a graphitic supercon ... more |
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![]() Research reveals shocking new way to create nanoporous materials Scientists have developed a new method of creating nanoporous materials with potential applications in everything from water purification to chemical sensors. In order to produce a porous mate ... more | .. |
![]() Tiny levers, big moves in piezoelectric sensors A team of university researchers, aided by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have succeeded in integrating a new, highly efficient piezoelectric material into ... more | .. |
![]() Graphene Foam Detects Explosives, Emissions Better Than Today's Gas Sensors A new study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrates how graphene foam can outperform leading commercial gas sensors in detecting potentially dangerous and explosive chemicals. The discove ... more | .. |
![]() New magnetic-field-sensitive alloy could find use in novel micromechanical devices Led by a group at the University of Maryland (UMd), a multi-institution team of researchers has combined modern materials research and an age-old metallurgy technique to produce an alloy that could ... more |
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![]() On the Road to Plasmonics With Silver Polyhedral Nanocrystals The question of how many polyhedral nanocrystals of silver can be packed into millimeter-sized supercrystals may not be burning on many lips but the answer holds importance for one of today's hottes ... more | .. |
![]() Nanowrinkles, nanofolds yield strange hidden channels Wrinkles and folds are ubiquitous. They occur in furrowed brows, planetary topology, the surface of the human brain, even the bottom of a gecko's foot. In many cases, they are nature's ingenious way ... more | .. |
![]() A realistic look at the promises and perils of nanomedicine Is the emerging field of nanomedicine a breathtaking technological revolution that promises remarkable new ways of diagnosing and treating diseases? Or does it portend the release of dangerous ... more | .. |
![]() Stanford engineers use nanophotonics to reshape on-chip computer data transmission A team at Stanford's School of Engineering has demonstrated an ultrafast nanoscale light emitting diode (LED) that is orders of magnitude lower in power consumption than today's laser-based systems ... more |
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