News tagged with copper wire

Mobile lab takes hybrid electric vehicle technology on the road

Take some galvanized nails, vinegar, soda pop and copper wire, piece them together just right, and what do you get? A battery.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Narrowest conducting wires in silicon ever made show the same current capability as copper

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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

High-voltage engineers create nearly 200-foot-long electrical arcs using less energy than before (Update)

Photos taken by the researchers show plasma arcs up to 60 meters long casting an eerie blue glow over buildings and trees at the High Voltage Laboratory at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (43) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Brussels prods Europe to invest in broadband

The EU executive Monday urged Europe's largest telecoms operators to invest in high-speed broadband as it launched a review into the price of access to smaller alternative operators.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

E-textiles get fashion upgrade with memory-storing fiber

The integration of electronics into textiles is a burgeoning field of research that may soon enable smart fabrics and wearable electronics. Bringing this technology one step closer to fruition, Jin-Woo Han and Meyya Meyyappan ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fujitsu develops compact silicon photonics light source for high-bandwidth CPU interconnects

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a compact silicon photonics light source for use in optical transceivers required for optical interconnects capable of carrying large volumes of data at high ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Innovative superconductor fibers carry 40 times more electricity

Wiring systems powered by highly-efficient superconductors have long been a dream of science, but researchers have faced such practical challenges such as finding pliable and cost-effective materials. Now ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Research uncovers reliability issues for carbon nanotubes in future electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes offer big promise in a small package. For instance, these tiny cylinders of carbon molecules theoretically can carry 1,000 times more electric current than a metal conductor ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biggest 2 Australian telcos join broadband rollout

(AP) -- Australia's two largest telecommunications companies signed lucrative deals with the government to join the rollout of a fiber optic national broadband network that will be among the world's fastest.

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Miracle material: Graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 19th century novel, Flatland, by Edward A. Abbott, residents of that fictional country exist in only two dimensions. Women are born as line segments, while men come in a range of geometric ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Conducting ferroelectrics may be key to new electronic memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- Novel properties of ferroelectric materials discovered at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are moving scientists one step closer to realizing a new paradigm of electronic memory storage.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The incredible shrinking circuit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just when it seemed that microchips couldn't get any tinier, a technique developed by researchers here at the University of Cambridge Engineering Department could lead to chips which are not ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Short, on-chip light pulses for ultrafast data transfer within computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineers generated short, powerful light pulses on a chip -- an important step toward the optical interconnects that will likely replace the copper wires that carry information ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unique duality: 'Exotic' superconductor with metallic surface discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new material with a split personality -- part superconductor, part metal -- has been observed by a Princeton University-led research team. The discovery may have implications for the development of next-generation ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nokia Siemens Networks achieves world record copper DSL speeds

Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully tested a technology that could drastically increase the data carrying capacity of standard copper wires. The company achieved data transmission speeds of 825 megabits per second (Mbps) ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast