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Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Researchers publish a detailed review of electrical contacts in one and two dimensional nanomaterials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Sandia National Laboratories have published a detailed review of recent experimental and theoretical work highlighting the unusual ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bright future for gaN nanowires

The gallium nitride nanowires grown by PML scientists may only be a few tenths of a micrometer in diameter, but they promise a very wide range of applications, from new light-emitting diodes and diode lasers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanowires could be solution for high performance solar cells

Tiny wires could help engineers realize high-performance solar cells and other electronics, according to University of Illinois researchers.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Zinc oxide microwires improve the performance of light-emitting diodes

Researchers have used zinc oxide microwires to significantly improve the efficiency at which gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (LED) convert electricity to ultraviolet light. The devices are believed to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanomembranes promise new materials for advanced electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- The camera in your phone collects light on silicon and translate that information into digital bits. One of the reasons those cameras and phones continue to improve is that researchers are developing new ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Enhancing the magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley researchers find enhanced and controllable magnetization in unique bismuth ferrite films.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Panasonic Develops A Gallium Nitride (GaN) Inverter IC for Motor Drive with High Efficiency

Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based monolithic inverter integrated circuit (IC) for motor drive. The integrated six GaN-based transistors can be independently driven ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers Find New Way To Fabricate Striped Nanorods

Superlatticed or “striped" nanorods – crystalline materials only a few molecules in thickness and made up of two or more semiconductors – are highly valued for their potential to serve in a variety of nanodevices, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 20, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 0

IMEC to create solutions for sub-45nm CMOS scaling

Together with its CMOS core partners, IMEC will announce several research breakthroughs on new gate-stack technologies and multiple-gate FET (MuGFET) devices at the 2005 Symposium on VLSI Technology. A combination of advances ...

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created Jun 17, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers Develop Clear Picture Of 'Birth' Of Semiconductor Nanostructures

University of Arkansas researchers have witnessed the birth of a quantum dot and learned more about how such atomic islands form and grow, using the ultrahigh vacuum facility on campus. This information will help researchers ...

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