News tagged with logic functions

Quantum computing: The light at the end of the tunnel may be a single photon

Quantum physics promises faster and more powerful computers, but quantum versions of basic logic functions are still needed to bring this technology to fruition. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Toshiba Research ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers invent a switch that could improve electronics

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have invented a new type of electronic switch that performs electronic logic functions within a single molecule. The incorporation of such single-molecule elements could enable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

Computer chip that computes probabilities and not logic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lyric Semiconductor has unveiled a new type of chip that uses probability inputs and outputs instead of the conventional 1's and 0's used in logic chips today. Crunching probabilities is much ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 19, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (27) | comments 19 | with audio podcast weblog




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Training cells to perform boolean functions? It's logical

(Phys.org) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have engineered cells that behave like AND and OR Boolean logic gates, producing an output based on one or more unique inputs. This feat, published in the May issue of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The first chemical circuit developed

Klas Tybrandt, doctoral student in organic electronics at Linkoping University, Sweden, has developed an integrated chemical chip. The results have just been published in Nature Communications.

Chemistry / Other

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Wearable electronics - the next fashion fad?

(Phys.org) -- When most of us think of electronics, we think of the sturdy stability of silicon and plastic. Flexibility is a trait that belongs to the organic world, where materials come in all shapes and ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Full control of plastic transistors

In an article in the highly ranked interdisciplinary journal PNAS, Loïg Kergoat, a researcher at Linköping University, describes how transistors made of plastic can be controlled with great precision.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Powered by poo: Students use dog waste to light park

Every day, about 200 dogs and their owners visit the Cosmo dog park in Gilbert, Ariz. When they go home, they leave behind about eight cubic yards of dog waste, plastic bottles, bags and other trash.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Science fair winner publishes new study on butterfly foraging behavior

University of Florida lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov has spent his life's work studying moths and butterflies. But it was his teenage daughter, Alexandra, who led research on how color impacts butterflies' feeding patterns.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists solve a mystery of bacterial growth and resistance

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have unraveled a complex chemical pathway that enables bacteria to form clusters called biofilms. Such improved understanding might eventually aid the development ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pig stomach mucins are effective as anti-viral agents for consumer products

Mucus often elicits strong revulsion, but to MIT biological engineer Katharina Ribbeck, it is a fascinating material. 

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Does the quantum wave function represent reality?

(Phys.org) -- At the heart of quantum mechanics lies the wave function, a probability function used by physicists to understand the nanoscale world. Using the wave function, physicists can calculate a system's ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (38) | comments 136 | with audio podcast feature

New 3-D structures assemble with remarkable precision

(Phys.org) -- While it is relatively straightforward to build a box on the macroscale, it is much more challenging at smaller micro- and nanometer length scales. At those sizes, three-dimensional (3-D) structures are too ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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