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Turning DNA into a hard drive

Silicon-based computers are fine for typing term papers and surfing the Web, but scientists want to make devices that can work on a far smaller scale, recording data within individual cells. One way to do that is to create ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers prove new circuit pattern-design process, see promise for 14 nanometer design with directed self-assembly

(Phys.org) -- Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced that they have successfully created contact hole patterns for a wide variety of practical logic and memory devices ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Making microscopic machines using metallic glass

Researchers in Ireland have developed a new technology using materials called bulk metallic glasses to produce high-precision molds for making tiny plastic components. The components, with detailed microscopically patterned ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate new way to control nonvolatile magnetic memory devices

(Phys.org) -- Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new strategy for making energy- efficient, reliable nonvolatile magnetic memory devices -- which retain information without electric power.

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fabrication method can affect the use of block copolymer thin films

A new study by a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) indicates that thin polymer films can have different properties depending on the method by which they ...

Physics / Soft Matter

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Nanoscale magnetic media diagnostics by rippling spin waves

Memory devices based on magnetism are one of the core technologies of the computing industry, and engineers are working to develop new forms of magnetic memory that are faster, smaller, and more energy efficient ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transparent, flexible '3-D' memory chips may be the next big thing in small memory devices

New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures — twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven — and survive ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Intel roadmap leaked for SoC with Ivy Bridge graphics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bridges, trails, piers, and trees are familiar territory words for world travelers but for Intel workers they are more importantly code words and a number of them that are planted on the ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Researchers prove Landauer was right in saying heat is dissipated when memory is erased

(PhysOrg.com) -- For over half a century, physicists and computer scientists have been troubled by a theoretical concept set forth by Rolf Landauer. He suggested that the very act of erasing a bit of memory ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

NTT researchers develop breakthrough optical memory device

(PhysOrg.com) -- To improve transmission speeds, the Internet has transitioned over the years from one using copper to fiber optic cabling. Unfortunately, this has caused a bottleneck to occur where the light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Study reveals switching mechanism in promising computer memory device

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes knowing that a new technology works is not enough. You also must know why it works to get marketplace acceptance. New information from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electronic salmon sandwich is paving the way towards cost-effective DNA memory device

In order to find a method for more cost-effective data storage, a group of researchers from the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Researchers demonstrate rare combination of electric and magnetic properties in strontium barium manganite

An electric field can displace the cloud of electrons surrounding each atom of a solid. In an effect known as polarization, the cloud centers move away slightly from the positively charged nuclei, which radically ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Light makes write for DNA information-storage device

Researchers have demonstrated a write-once-read-many-times information-storage device, made of DNA embedded with silver nanoparticles, that uses ultraviolet light to encode data.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elpida starts sample shipments of next-generation mobile RAM products

Elpida Memory, the world's third largest Dynamic Random Access Memory manufacturer, today announced that it has begun sample shipments of 4-gigabit Wide IO Mobile RAMTM and 4-gigabit DDR3 Mobile RAM (LPDDR3).

Technology / Semiconductors

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