News tagged with logic circuits

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

High reliability of flexible organic transistor memory looks promising for future electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the constant demand for high-performance nonvolatile memory devices, researchers continue to develop better memories - ones with low power consumption, good reliability, and low manufacturing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers analyze the future of transistor-less magnonic logic circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- As one of the newest research areas today, the field of magnonics is attracting researchers for many reasons, not the least being its possible role in the development of transistor-less logic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Self-Programming Hybrid Memristor/Transistor Circuit Could Continue Moore's Law

(PhysOrg.com) -- As researchers strive to increase the density and functionality of circuit elements onto computer chips, one newer option they have is a memory resistor (or “memristor”), the fourth passive ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (46) | comments 8 feature

Researchers find possible evidence of Majorana fermions

(Phys.org) -- Researchers working out of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have constructed a device that appears to offer some evidence of the existence of Majorana fermions; the elusive particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

New device could bring optical information processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Etch-a-sketch with superconductors

Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to 'draw' superconducting shapes ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Largest biochemical circuit built out of small synthetic DNA molecules

In many ways, life is like a computer. An organism's genome is the software that tells the cellular and molecular machinery—the hardware—what to do. But instead of electronic circuitry, life relies ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

'Chaogates' hold promise for the semiconductor industry

In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "chaogates." The researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Push-Button Logic on the Nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Circuits that can perform logic operations at the push of a button are a dime-a-dozen these days, but a breakthrough by researchers in the USA has meant they can be smaller and simpler than ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

DNA could be backbone of next generation logic chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a single day, a solitary grad student at a lab bench can produce more simple logic circuits than the world's entire output of silicon chips in a month.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Computing, Sudoku-style

When Alexey Radul began graduate work at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2003, he was interested in natural-language processing -- designing software that could understand ordinary ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers create molecular diode

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers create molecular diode

Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Moore's Law Marches on at Intel

Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today displayed a silicon wafer containing the world's first working chips built on 22nm process technology. The 22nm test circuits include both SRAM memory as well as ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 10