News tagged with copper wire

Superconductor breakthrough could power new advances (w/ Video)

 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first batch of a new range of powerful superconductors which could revolutionise the production of machines like hospital MRI scanners and protect the national grid has been developed ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (31) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Telstra strikes $10B deal for Australia broadband

(AP) -- The government and Australia's largest telecommunications company announced a deal Sunday that clears a major hurdle to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plans for a superfast national broadband network.

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 20, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Aiming to boost electronics performance, researchers capture images of sub-nano pore structures for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moore's law marches on: In the quest for faster and cheaper computers, scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at sub-nanometer scale for the first time. Understanding ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher modernizes US power grid

Although the U.S. electric power industry is one of the greatest engineering marvels of the 20th century, aging technology and an increase in demand create problems for the electricity infrastructure that need to be fixed. ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 6

IBM Scientists Create Ultra-Fast Device Which Uses Light for Communication between Computer Chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists today unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (45) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Brighten up -- it's a new plastic optical fibre technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- It may look like little more than fishing line, but plastic optical fibre or POF promises to revolutionise high-speed last-mile communications networks. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Intel's Light Peak Will Replace Copper Wires

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Wednesday, the company announced a new optical cable that will be able to transfer data, between electrical devices, starting at speeds of 10 ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 17 weblog

Using Nanotubes in Computer Chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Secrets behind high temperature superconductors revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have found evidence that magnetism is involved in the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity.

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 29


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