News tagged with electron device

Expert help from a distance

When electronic devices refuse to work, you rarely find the solution in the manual. Technicians often face similar problems with industrial machines, and companies end up flying in experts from the manufacturer ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lightwave electronics at sharp metal tips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics control for the first time the emission of electrons from metal tips with femtosecond lasers alone.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

SKorea's LG touts Optimus 3D smartphone for gaming

(AP) -- LG Electronics is touting 3-D smartphones as an alternative to dedicated handheld game devices.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Samsung seeks US import ban on Apple products

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Thursday it had asked the US International Trade Commission to ban the import of Apple products into the United States, expanding its patent war with the US giant.

Technology / Business

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inkjet printing could change the face of solar energy industry

Inkjet printers, a low-cost technology that in recent decades has revolutionized home and small office printing, may soon offer similar benefits for the future of solar energy.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Putting a new spin on computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Arizona have achieved a breakthrough toward the development of a new breed of computing devices that can process data using less power.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Team reports scalable fabrication of self-aligned graphene transistors, circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has the potential to make consumer electronic devices faster and smaller. But its unique properties, and the shrinking scale of electronics, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

How to choose a catalyst: Predicting which materials will perform best in fuel cells and metal air batteries

MIT researchers have found a new way to predict which materials will perform best as catalysts for oxygen reduction, a core process in metal air batteries and fuel cells, opening up the possibility of faster ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

World's first Content Addressable Memory stores data without using power

NEC Corporation and Tohoku University announced today the development of the world's first content addressable memory (CAM) that both maintains the same high operation speed and non-volatile operation as existing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Method for creating single-crystal arrays of graphene developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Houston researchers have developed a method for creating single-crystal arrays of the material graphene, an advance that opens the possibility of a replacement for silicon in high-performance ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

TDK mass-produces see-through type high-definition organic electroluminescent display

TDK Corporation has started mass production of a newly developed see-through passive matrix type QVGA organic EL display (product name: UEL476) from this Spring, a world's first.

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Samsung to stick with Google for its tablets

Samsung Electronics will depend on Google's Android mobile-device software to run future versions of its tablet computers, a senior Samsung official said in an interview published Tuesday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Graphene: New electronics material closer to commercial reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a method for creating single-crystal arrays of a material called graphene, an advance that opens up the possibility of a replacement for silicon in high-performance ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Researchers advance design-dependent process monitoring for semiconductor wafer manufacturing

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Single molecule performs multiple logic operations simultaneously

(PhysOrg.com) -- While molecules have already been used to perform individual logic operations, scientists have now shown that a single molecule can perform 13 logic operations, some of them in parallel. The ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature