News tagged with intrinsic semiconductor

Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance

In a development that holds much promise for the future of solar cells made from nanocrystals, and the use of solar energy to produce clean and renewable liquid transportation fuels, researchers with the U.S. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Discovery of non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals advances their applications

Substantial advances for applications of nanocrystals in the fields requiring a continuous output of photons and high quantum efficiency may soon be realized due to discovery of non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2




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Frequency stabilization in nonlinear nanomechanical oscillators

Using Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) expertise in the design and fabrication of micro- and nanoscale devices, a new strategy for engineering low-frequency noise oscillators capitalizes on the intrinsic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Return of the vacuum tube

Vacuum tubes have been retro for decades. They almost completely disappeared from the electronics scene when consumers exchanged their old cathode ray tube monitors for flat screen TVs. Their replacement – the semiconductor ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Quantum dots brighten the future of lighting

(Phys.org) -- With the age of the incandescent light bulb fading rapidly, the holy grail of the lighting industry is to develop a highly efficient form of solid-state lighting that produces high quality white ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Transistors promise more powerful logic, more logical power

Broadly speaking, the two major areas of research at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are electronics — transistors in particular — and microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop new way to oxidize graphene: A step toward better electronics

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new method for chemically altering graphene, a development that could be a step toward the creation of faster, thinner, flexible electronics.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NTT develops current-injection photonic-crystal laser

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has developed an current-injection photonic-crystal laser with ultralow power consumption that can be applied to off-chip and on-chip optical data transmission for ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bilayer graphene works as an insulator

A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

A new class of electron interactions in quantum systems

Physicists at the University of New South Wales have observed a new kind of interaction that can arise between electrons in a single-atom silicon transistor.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electrically controlling magnetic polarization of nuclei offers new way to store quantum information

Storing information in long-lasting quantum states is a prerequisite for building quantum computers. Intrinsic properties of nuclei known as magnetic spins are good storage candidates because they interact ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Graphene applications in electronics and photonics

Graphene, which is composed of a one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb-like lattice (like atomic-scale chicken wire), is the world's thinnest material – and one of the hardest and strongest. Indeed, the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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