News tagged with dielectric layer

Nanoscale waveguide for future photonics

The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New transistor for plastic electronics exhibits the best of both worlds

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a transistor with excellent stability and performance for use on plastic electronics. In addition, it can be manufactured at relatively low temperatures in a regular ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

High reliability of flexible organic transistor memory looks promising for future electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the constant demand for high-performance nonvolatile memory devices, researchers continue to develop better memories - ones with low power consumption, good reliability, and low manufacturing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Stacking the deck: Single photons observed at seemingly faster-than-light speeds

Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park, can speed up photons (particles of light) ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nanocups brim with potential: Light-bending metamaterial could lead to superlenses, invisibility cloaks

Researchers at Rice University have created a metamaterial that could light the way toward high-powered optics, ultra-efficient solar cells and even cloaking devices.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 2