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Diamond brightens the performance of electronic devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- While diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, they’re also well-loved by scientists working to enhance the performance of electronic devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Designing diamond circuits for extreme environments

There is a new way to design computer chips and electronic circuitry for extreme environments: make them out of diamond.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Shocking results from diamond anvil cell experiments (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- At first, nanoshocks may seem like something to describe the millions of aftershocks of a large earthquake.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Novel diamond-like films on board NASA satellite

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Diamond used to produce graphene quantum dots and nano-ribbons of controlled structure

Kansas State University researchers have come closer to solving an old challenge of producing graphene quantum dots of controlled shape and size at large densities, which could revolutionize electronics and optoelectronics.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Next-generation nanoelectronics: A decade of progress, coming advances

Traditional silicon-based integrated circuits are found in many applications, from large data servers to cars to cell phones. Their widespread integration is due in part to the semiconductor industry's ability to continue ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bejeweled: Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations

Like a lead actress on the red carpet, nanowires—those superstars of nanotechnology—can be enhanced by a little jewelry, too. Not the diamonds and pearls variety, but the sort formed of sinuous chains ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers find simple and cheap way to mass-produce graphene nanosheets

Mixing a little dry ice and a simple industrial process cheaply mass-produces high-quality graphene nanosheets, researchers in South Korea and Case Western Reserve University report.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

New form of hafnium oxide developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel material developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge is opening up new possibilities for next generation electronic and optoelectronic devices, and paving the way for further ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Diamond light, brighter than the sun

It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Ultrafine processing technology continues its evolution

The performance of optical and electronic components such as lenses and semiconductors is strongly influenced by the precision of surface grinding, which involves shaping the surface, and polishing, and provides ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Exploring the last white spot on Earth: ESRF inaugurates unique new X-ray facility

Scientists will soon be exploring matter at temperatures and pressures so extreme it can only be produced for microseconds using powerful pulsed lasers. Matter in such states is present in the Earth's liquid ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists carve nanowires out of ultrananocrystalline diamond thin films

A team of scientists working at Argonne National Laboratory's (ANL) Center for Nanoscale Materials has successfully carved ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) thin films into nanowires, boosting the material's functionality ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The trouble with the media Cloud: If we can have everything, does it mean anything?

Why did they call it "The Cloud"? Couldn't they have chosen a better metaphor? Clouds burst. Clouds darken. Clouds disappear.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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