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IBM Scientists Demonstrate World's Fastest Graphene Transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (39) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Scientists first to trap light and sound vibrations together in nanocrystal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 9

New ultra-small laser opens up a world of possibilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computing and medicine are among the many fields which could be revolutionised by a new form of ultra-small laser.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using imprint processing to mass-produce tiny antennas could improve wireless electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to mass-produce antennas so small that they approach the fundamental minimum size limit for their bandwidth, or data ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Chinese supercomputer will feature The Godson-3B: A mesh style processor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese researchers expect to unveil the Dawning 6000 supercomputer in the third quarter of 2011. Unlike the previous versions of this supercomputer, the current version will be something very different when ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Physicists discover ultrasensitive microwave detector

Physicists from Rice University and Princeton University have discovered how to use one of the information technology industry's mainstay materials -- gallium arsenide semiconductors -- as an ultrasensitive microwave detector ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Wi-Fi to come in a much faster, short-range flavor

The industry group that supports Wi-Fi is adopting a new technology that should boost data speeds more than 10 times at short distances, which could replace video cables in the home entertainment center.

Technology / Telecom

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New Wi-Fi Technology Using White Spaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- A wireless internet network that uses portions of the old analog TV spectrum may one day become a reality. The plans for a computer network that uses "white spaces," which are empty fragments ...

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 weblog

Intel, Microsoft, Dell band together for WiGig

(AP) -- Wi-Fi, WiMax, WirelessHD, WHDI and now ... WiGig?

Technology / Telecom

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Breakthrough for post-4G communications

(PhysOrg.com) -- With much of the mobile world yet to migrate to 3G mobile communications, let alone 4G, European researchers are already working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New ceramic chip antennas offer better performance, reliability

Wireless devices such as mobile phones rely on the radio spectrum to send and receive data. There is growing interest in using a worldwide unlicensed spectrum around 60 gigahertz for future wireless applications, ...

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

France launches 4G mobile license auction

France on Wednesday kicked off auctions for frequencies to build high-speed fourth generation mobile telephone networks needed to keep up with the explosion of Internet-capable smartphones.

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two for one: Radio chip and sensor combine to measure weather

RFID technology is on the advance. But, up to now radio chips primarily supply data for the identification of products. Researchers have now developed a transponder which measures temperature, pressure and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hertz

The hertz (symbol Hz) is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications.

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