News tagged with mobile electrons
How Perfect Can Graphene Be?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have investigated the purest graphene to date, and have found that the material possesses unprecedented high electronic quality. The discovery has raised the bar for this relatively ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Can graphene nanoribbons replace silicon?
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene has been the subject of intense focus and research for a few years now," Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. "There are researchers that feel that it is possible that graphene could replac ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Graphene battery demonstrated to power an LED
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Hong Kong have reported, in ArXiv, their experiments to make a graphene battery that they say generates an electrical current by drawing on the ambient thermal energy in the sol ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Scientists find simple way to produce graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Northern Illinois University say they have discovered a simple method for producing high yields of graphene, a highly touted carbon nanostructure that some believe could replace ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Barrier to faster graphene devices identified and suppressed
These days graphene is the rock star of materials science, but it has an Achilles heel: It is exceptionally sensitive to its electrical environment.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 13, 2012 |
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At small scales, tug-of-war between electrons can lead to magnetism under surprising circumstances
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the smallest scales, magnetism may not work quite the way scientists expected, according to a recent paper in Physical Review Letters by Rafal Oszwaldowski and Igor Zutic of the Univer ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Graphene ink created for ink-jet printing of electronic components
(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of UK scientists has created a graphene ink that can be used to ink-jet print electronic devices such as thin film transistors.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 25, 2011 |
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Making a light-harvesting antenna from scratch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes when people talk about solar energy, they tacitly assume that we're stuck with some version of the silicon solar cell and its technical and cost limitations. Not so.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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The Asus New Folding E-Book Reader
(PhysOrg.com) -- Asus has demonstrated a prototype of an e-book reader it is developing. Unlike its competitors, the device resembles a normal book, having two touch screens that will fold up.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 09, 2009 |
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AIDA Robot Aims To Change The Way We Interact With Our Car (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers and designers are developing the Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 01, 2009 |
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Fast Transistors Could Save Energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Transistors, the cornerstone of electronics, are lossy and therefore consume energy. Swiss esearchers from the ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne have developed transistors targeting high switching ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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New 3-D transistors promising future chips, lighter laptops
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Purdue and Harvard universities have created a new type of transistor made from a material that could replace silicon and have a 3-D structure instead of conventional flat computer chips.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Laser projector, set-top box win gadget awards
A pocket-size laser projector and a set-top box which delivers Web content to your television were named among the best products in an annual competition as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) prepared to ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 10, 2010 |
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'Keyless keyboards' coming for mobile computing (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Israeli company, SnapKeys, has developed a keyless keyboard that promises to make mobile computing on tablets or devices such as Apple's iPad simpler. Instead of an on-screen keyboard ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Nanowires made of 'strained silicon' show how to keep increases in computer power coming
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers keep getting more powerful because silicon transistors keep getting smaller. But that miniaturization can't continue much further without a change to the transistors' design, which ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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