News tagged with dielectric properties

IBM introduces new graphene transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a report published in Nature, Yu-ming Lin and Phaedon Avoris, IBM researchers, have announced the development of a new graphene transistor which is smaller and faster than the one they i ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report

Nano changes rise to macro importance in a key electronics material

By combining the results of a number of powerful techniques for studying material structure at the nanoscale, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, working with colleagues in other ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Novel holographic antenna designs and uses

Holographic antennas first studied around 40 years ago are again a hot topic given the potential of holographic images for a variety of applications. EU researchers developed novel prototype devices based ...

Technology / Engineering

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Graphene on boron nitride work may lead to breakthrough in microchip technology

(Phys.org) -- Graphene is the wonder material that could solve the problem of making ever faster computers and smaller mobile devices when current silicon microchip technology hits an inevitable wall. Graphene, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New 'metamaterial' practical for optical advances

(Phys.org) -- Researchers have taken a step toward overcoming a key obstacle in commercializing "hyperbolic metamaterials," structures that could bring optical advances including ultrapowerful microscopes, computers and solar ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

The shape of things, illuminated: Metamaterials, surface topology and light-matter interactions

(Phys.org) -- Finding new connections between different disciplines leads to new – and sometimes useful – ideas. That’s exactly what happened when scientists in the Department of Physics, Queens College, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Micromechanical mirror performs under pressure... of light

(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists from PML's Quantum Measurement Division has designed and tested a novel device that may lead to substantial progress in the new and fast-moving field of optomechanics.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Barrier to faster graphene devices identified and suppressed

These days graphene is the rock star of materials science, but it has an Achilles heel: It is exceptionally sensitive to its electrical environment.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New design for a metamaterial could be far more efficient at capturing sunlight than existing solar cells

Metamaterials are a new class of artificial substances with properties unlike anything found in the natural world. Some have been designed to act as invisibility cloaks; others as superlenses, antenna systems ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Metamaterials may advance with new femtosecond laser technique

Researchers in applied physics have cleared an important hurdle in the development of advanced materials, called metamaterials, that bend light in unusual ways.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Motorized roller could mass-produce graphene-based devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding a simple, scalable way to pattern graphene for future electronics applications is one of the biggest challenges facing graphene researchers. While lithography has been widely used ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

New technique produces free-standing piezoelectric ferroelectric nanostructures from PZT material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a “soft template infiltration” technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from PZT ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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