News tagged with nano letters
Paper-thin supercapacitor has higher capacitance when twisted than any non-twisted supercapacitor
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to develop wearable electronics, researchers have designed a new ultra-thin supercapacitor that has a capacitance that is six times higher than that of any current commercial ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Brain-Like Computer Closer to Realization
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost since computing began, scientists and technologists have been fascinated with the idea of a computer that works similarly to the human brain. In 2008, the first "memristor" was built, ...
Mar 17, 2010 |
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New memory material may hold data for one billion years
(PhysOrg.com) -- Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 20, 2009 |
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Scientists build 'single-atom transistor'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, ...
Dec 06, 2009 |
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Silicon oxide circuits break barrier: Nanocrystal conductors could lead to massive, robust 3-D storage
Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, one of the most common substances on the planet, in a way that should be easily adaptable to nanoelectronic ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have built the first carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor with a channel length below 10 nm, a size that is considered a requirement for computing technology in the next decade. Not ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Scientists design solar cells that exceed the conventional light-trapping limit
(PhysOrg.com) -- The best performing solar cells are those that are thick enough to absorb light from the entire solar spectrum, while the cheapest solar cells are thin ones, since they require less, and potentially ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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A Billion Year Ultra-Dense Memory Chip (w/Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique ultra-high density memory storage medium that can preserve digital data for a billion years.
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Cat brain: A step toward the electronic equivalent
A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. That's one reason a feline brain is the model for a biologically-inspired computer project involving the University of Michigan.
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Researchers invent new method for graphene growth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Study predicts nanoscience will greatly increase efficiency of next-generation solar cells
As the fastest growing energy technology in the world, solar energy continues to account for more and more of the world’s energy supply. Currently, most commercial photovoltaic power comes from bulk semiconductor materials. ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 13, 2010 |
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Scientists develop universal DNA reader to advance faster, cheaper sequencing efforts
Arizona State University scientists have come up with a new twist in their efforts to develop a faster and cheaper way to read the DNA genetic code. They have developed the first, versatile DNA reader that ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 11, 2010 |
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Taming the wild phonon
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have succeeded in creating a synthetic crystal that can very effectively control the transmission of heat -- stopping it in its tracks and reflecting it back. ...
Mar 22, 2010 |
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High-speed filter uses electrified nanostructures to purify water at low cost
(PhysOrg.com) -- By dipping plain cotton cloth in a high-tech broth full of silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes, Stanford researchers have developed a new high-speed, low-cost filter that could easily be ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Transistor performance improves due to quantum confinement effects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Manufacturing on the nanoscale has come a long way since Feynman’s visions of nanotechnology more than 50 years ago. Since then, studies have demonstrated how low-dimensional structures, ...
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Nano Letters
Nano Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published since 2001 by the American Chemical Society. Nano Letters is currently indexed in: CAS, SCOPUS, EBSCOhost, British Library, PubMed, and Web of Science.
The Co-Editors are Paul Alivisatos and Charles Lieber
Nano Letters has an ISI Impact Factor of 10.371 as reported by the 2008 Journal Citation Reports by Thomson Reuters.
For more information about Nano Letters, read the full article at
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