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Network expands to 256 times its original size to bridge the micro and macro worlds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Now that scientists have developed a diverse assortment of nano- and micro-sized devices and materials, one of the biggest challenges is finding a practical way to incorporate them into macroscale ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 15, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

First germanium laser brings us closer to 'optical computers'

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. It’s also the first germanium laser to operate ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Research team finds new explanation for Cambrian explosion

(PhysOrg.com) -- For hundreds of years, researchers from many branches of science have sought to explain the veritable explosion in diversity in animal organisms that started approximately 541 million years ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

Smart skin: Electronics that stick and stretch like a temporary tattoo (w/ video)

Engineers have developed a device platform that combines electronic components for sensing, medical diagnostics, communications and human-machine interfaces, all on an ultrathin skin-like patch that mounts ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Could a computer one day rewire itself? New nanomaterial ‘steers’ current in multiple dimensions

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial that can "steer" electrical currents. The development could lead to a computer that can simply reconfigure its internal wiring and become an entirely ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers

Not so long ago our computers had a single core which had to be boosted for performance - making each machine into a great central heating system. Beyond 85° C, however, electronic components become unstable. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 5

Graphene ink created for ink-jet printing of electronic components

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of UK scientists has created a graphene ink that can be used to ink-jet print electronic devices such as thin film transistors.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Xerox Develops Silver Ink for Cheap Printable Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 0 weblog

Why they grow? Getting to the roots of lethal metal whiskers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A short circuit can be quite hairy: satellites have failed, a NASA computer centre was repeatedly paralysed and the US public heath authority recalled thousands of pacemakers - all because ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Researchers create molecular diode

Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Selling chip makers on optical computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer chips that transmit data with light instead of electricity consume much less power than conventional chips, but so far, they've remained laboratory curiosities. Professors Vladimir ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

How manuka honey helps fight infection

Manuka honey may kill bacteria by destroying key bacterial proteins. Dr Rowena Jenkins and colleagues from the University of Wales Institute - Cardiff investigated the mechanisms of manuka honey action and found that its ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Fusion-io Deliveries The Worlds Fastest SSD

(Physorg.com) -- Fusion-io, a leader in high-performance I/O solutions, announced their new ioDrive Duo. The new ioDrive Duo is one of the fastest and most innovative server-based solid-state storage solutions. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4 weblog

IMEC reports method to integrate plasmonic technology with state-of-the-art ICs

IMEC reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0