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Digital Quantum Battery Could Boost Energy Density Tenfold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (55) | comments 17 weblog

IBM's breakthrough chip technology lights the path to exascale computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists today unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (56) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

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

Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have built the first carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor with a channel length below 10 nm, a size that is considered a requirement for computing technology in the next decade. Not ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 32 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers produce world's first programmable nanoprocessor

Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corporation have developed and demonstrated the world's first programmable nanoprocessor.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Discovery brings new type of fast computers closer to reality

Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called "excitons" that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (35) | comments 1

IBM creates first graphene based integrated circuit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking a giant step forward in the creation and production of graphene based integrated circuits, IBM has announced in Science, the fabrication of a graphene based integrated circuit on a s ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

From graphene to graphane, now the possibilities are endless

Ever since graphene was discovered in 2004, this one-atom thick, super strong, carbon-based electrical conductor has been billed as a "wonder material" that some physicists think could one day replace silicon ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 10

Silicon chips to enter world of high speed optical processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Sydney have brought silicon chips closer to performing all-optical computing and information processing that could overcome the speed limitations intrinsic ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

IBM demonstrates nonoscale 3D patterning technique (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research in Zurich has demonstrated a new nanoscale patterning technique that could replace electron beam lithography (EBL). The demonstration carved a 1:5 billion scale three-dimensional ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Going Beyond Moore's Law by Using the Third Dimension

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated a new microwire fabrication technique in which microwires self-assemble themselves in a three-dimensional template made of nematic liquid crystals. Amidst concerns ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

Wizard at circuits, physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 0

European researchers make breakthrough in developing super-material graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A Tiny Defect That May Create Smaller, Faster Electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- When most of us hear the word 'defect', we think of a problem that has to be solved. But a team of researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) created a new defect that just might ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Redefining electrical current law with the transistor laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- While the laws of physics weren't made to be broken, sometimes they need revision. A major current law has been rewritten thanks to the three-port transistor laser, developed by Milton Feng ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast