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Physicists mix two lasers to create light at many frequencies

A team of physicists at UC Santa Barbara has seen the light, and it comes in many different colors. By aiming high- and low-frequency laser beams at a semiconductor, the researchers caused electrons to be ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Two scientific articles on graphene-based sensors prove popular in the research community

When it comes to checking for trace levels of chemicals that could be the early warning signs of disease or chemical exposure, doctors and patients want to use as small of blood samples as possible. This drive for small samples ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Novel plasmonic material may merge photonic and electronic technologies

Helping bridge the gap between photonics and electronics, researchers from Purdue University have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride into transporting plasmons, tiny electron excitations coupled to light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Hon Hai buying 10 percent stake in Sharp for $806M

(AP) -- Taiwan electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. is taking a 10 percent stake in struggling Japanese electronics company Sharp Corp. for about $806 million.

Technology / Business

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Discovery of new catalyst promises cheaper, greener drugs

A chemistry team at the University of Toronto has discovered environmentally-friendly iron-based nanoparticle catalysts that work as well as the expensive, toxic, metal-based catalysts that are currently in wide use by the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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New 'electronic skin' patches monitor health wirelessly

Like the colorful temporary tattoos that children stick to their arms for fun, people may one day put thin "electronic skin" patches onto their arms to wirelessly diagnose health problems or deliver treatments. A scientis ...

Technology / Engineering

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More energy efficient transistors through quantum tunneling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Pennsylvania State University have announced breakthroughs in the development of tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs), a semiconductor ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Africans consumers targeted as key by electronics firms

From solar-powered lights to televisions that can withstand power blackouts, electronics mega-firms are wooing African consumers with products that target local, often challenging, environments.

Technology / Business

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mobile apps raise new privacy concerns

Smartphone in hand, you tap into your local application store. You click on a nifty tool that promises to massage your belly and pat your head at the same time. But just as you're about to download it, you decide to click ...

Technology / Software

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Company: Cost of hosting Megaupload data untenable

(AP) -- The company hosting the frozen data of millions of users of the file sharing site Megaupload says somebody needs to pay the company's bill or allow it to delete the data.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Development of a new method for the boron-doping of two dimensional carbon materials

Kyoto University researchers have developed a new method for the boron-doping of two dimensional carbon materials, which is expected to be a promising approach towards the development of highly efficient electron ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hall effect magnetic field sensors for high temperatures and harmful radiation environments

Toyohashi Tech researchers have fabricated Hall effect magnetic field sensors operable at least 400 C and in extreme radiation conditions using gallium nitride-based heterostructures a with two-dimensional ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists produce graphene using microorganisms

The Graphene Research Group at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) reports on the synthesis of graphene by reducing graphene oxide using microorganisms extracted from a local river.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers look for ways to make an emerging technology safe for environment

The percentage of electronic waste occupying our landfills has grown at an alarming rate over the last decade, giving rise to concerns about the toxicity of components used in consumer electronics.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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How the alphabet of data processing is growing: Research team generates flying 'qubits'

The alphabet of data processing could include more elements than the "0" and "1" in future. An international research team has achieved a new kind of bit with single electrons, called quantum bits, or qubits. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

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