Glass fibres do everything from connecting us to the internet to enabling keyhole surgery by delivering light through medical devices such as endoscopes. But as versatile as today's fiber optics are, scientists around the ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 25, 2016
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For years, researchers have been trying to find ways to grow an optimal nanowire, using crystals with perfectly aligned layers all along the wire.
Nanophysics
Apr 23, 2019
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(Phys.org) —The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance ...
General Physics
May 24, 2013
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Panasonic and imec present at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco an innovative SiGe (silicon germanium) thin film packaged SOI-based MEMS resonator featuring an industry-record Q factor combined with ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 7, 2010
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(Phys.org)—Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new type of nanoscale structure that resembles a "nano-shish-kebab," consisting of multiple two-dimensional nanosheets that appear to be impaled ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 19, 2013
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An interdisciplinary team of UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz researchers is taking a novel approach to solar power, one that promises to lead to a technological breakthrough. By using nanoparticles of germanium, silicon and other ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 3, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although its name may make many people think of flowers, the element germanium is part of a frequently studied group of elements, called IVa, which could have applications for next-generation computer architecture ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 6, 2011
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A new ultra-high-speed operational amplifier (op amp) from National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) delivers the industry’s lowest noise (0.69 nV/sqrt Hz) with -3 dB bandwidth of 900 MHz at a gain of 10.
Electronics & Semiconductors
May 19, 2010
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Imagine creating a material for the digital information highway that allows a fast lane of laser light that zips data past the traditional silicon chips.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 9, 2018
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Germanene is a 2-D material derived from germanium and related to graphene. As it is not stable outside the vacuum chambers in which is it produced, no real measurements of its electronic properties have been made. Scientists ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 8, 2019
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