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Scientists develop world's smallest diamond transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed the world’s smallest diamond transistor.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 3




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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

Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene

In what became known as the 'Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexagonal pattern. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Spin-orbit sum rule to speed up X-ray scattering research

A new theory developed by Prof Gerrit van der Laan, from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Diamond Light Source, and published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, provid ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

In the quantum world, diamonds can communicate with each other

Researchers working at the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford in England have managed to get one small diamond to communicate with another small diamond utilizing "quantum entanglement," one ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 96 | with audio podcast

Light-controlling artificial diamond structures could lead to optical computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make computer chips even faster than those of today, many researchers have recently been investigating the possibility of optical computing. In an optical computer, information ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Team develops method for creating 3D photonic crystals

Dutch researchers at the University of Twente's MESA+ research institute, together with ASML, TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) and TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology) ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Physicists identify room temperature quantum bits in silicon carbide - widely used semiconductor

A discovery by physicists at UC Santa Barbara may earn silicon carbide -- a semiconductor commonly used by the electronics industry -- a role at the center of a new generation of information technologies designed to exploit ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Graphene walls could make powerful electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- To stand a ribbon of graphene upright, it needs diamond on the soles of its shoes.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | 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


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