News tagged with electronic collection

Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing

Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater capacity than is currently ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Study helps explain behavior of latest high-temp superconductors

A Rice University-led team of physicists this week offered up one of the first theoretical explanations of how two dissimilar types of high-temperature superconductors behave in similar ways.

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Tuning the collective properties of artificial nanoparticle supercrystals

Precise ordering in two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) superlattices formed by the self-assembly of individual nanocrystals (NCs) allows for control of the magnetic, optical, and electronic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plasmonic Promises: First Observation of Plasmarons in Graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- The energy bands of complex particles known as plasmarons have been seen for the first time by scientists working with graphene at the Advanced Light Source. Their discovery may hasten the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 23 feature

Language change can be traced using gigantic text archives

(PhysOrg.com) -- Historical collections that include everything ever written in a dozen American and British newspapers since they started are now available electronically. Donald MacQueen from Uppsala University, Sweden, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Open source mobile technology software reinventing health care in developing countries

Dr. Joel Selanikio's innovative technology is not only saving lives, it is changing the face of the public health system around the world. Merging his expertise in the areas of computer science, medicine and ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 4