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Advance could change modern electronics: High-performance 'metal-insulator-metal' diode created

Researchers at Oregon State University have solved a quest in fundamental material science that has eluded scientists since the 1960s, and could form the basis of a new approach to electronics.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (52) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Research team creates photoelectrowetting circuit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Working together, Matthieu Gaudet and Steve Arscott from the University of Lille (IEMN lab) in France have built a circuit using a phenomenon known as photoelectrowetting, which allows a switch ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (48) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Amazon fungi found that eat polyurethane, even without oxygen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they will do so even in the absence ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (47) | comments 27 | with audio podcast report

Superconductor magnet spacecraft heat shield being developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- European space agencies and an aerospace giant are developing a new re-entry heat shield that will use superconductor magnets to generate a magnetic field strong enough to deflect the superhot ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (44) | comments 28 weblog

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

Silicon oxide circuits break barrier: Nanocrystal conductors could lead to massive, robust 3-D storage

Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, one of the most common substances on the planet, in a way that should be easily adaptable to nanoelectronic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Scientists Strive to Replace Silicon with Graphene on Nanocircuitry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors. They ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Oil-based color pixels could let you watch videos on e-paper

(PhysOrg.com) -- By rapidly manipulating colored oil droplets stacked on top of each other, a new electrowetting (EW) technique could lead to the development of electronic paper displays that can produce high-resolution ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (33) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

A New Path of Conduction for Future Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, researchers from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory made headlines when they revealed experimental evidence of a topological insulator: a material that could revolutionize computer ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 8

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 4

Taming the wild phonon

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have succeeded in creating a synthetic crystal that can very effectively control the transmission of heat -- stopping it in its tracks and reflecting it back. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

'Colossal' Magnetic Effect Under Pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Millions of people today carry around pocket-sized music players capable of holding thousands of songs, thanks to the discovery 20 years ago of a phenomenon known as the “giant magnetoresistance ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 3

Storing a Lightning Bolt in Glass for Portable Power

(PhysOrg.com) -- Materials researchers at Penn State University have reported the highest known breakdown strength for a bulk glass ever measured. Breakdown strength, along with dielectric constant, determines ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (24) | comments 9

Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics

(Phys.org) -- Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Novel magnetic, superconducting material opens new possibilities in electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have reached a crucial milestone that could lead to a new class of materials with useful electronic properties. In research reported in the Sept. 5 issue of Nature Physics, the te ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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