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The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Tim Wilkinson from the Department's Photonics Research Group, University of Cambridge, has made an exciting breakthrough, he has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 6




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Engineered materials: Custom-made magnets

A novel approach to designing artificial materials could enable magnetic devices with a wider range of properties than those now available. An international team of researchers have now extended the properties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Vestas to install research wind turbine at Sandia facility in Texas

The initial phase of Sandia National Laboratories' Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility (SWIFT), currently being constructed in partnership with Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, will be a little bigger ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New system makes hardware models of multicore chips more efficient, easier to design, more reliable

Most computer chips today have anywhere from four to 10 separate cores, or processing units, which can work in parallel, increasing the chips’ efficiency. But the chips of the future are likely to have ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough furnace can cut solar costs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar cells, the heart of the photovoltaic industry, must be tested for mechanical strength, oxidized, annealed, purified, diffused, etched, and layered.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Nanowire lens can reconfigure its imaging properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the unique optical properties of nanoscale materials, researchers have designed a lens made of nanowires that can reconfigure its imaging properties without any electronic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Single molecule performs multiple logic operations simultaneously

(PhysOrg.com) -- While molecules have already been used to perform individual logic operations, scientists have now shown that a single molecule can perform 13 logic operations, some of them in parallel. The ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Through a Sensor, Holographically

(PhysOrg.com) -- The power and resolution of lens-based optical microscopes have improved by orders of magnitude since their invention around 1595. Nevertheless, relying on a high-magnification lens for image ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

New fluorescent OLEDs display greater efficiencies than believed possible

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan engineering researchers have designed an exceptionally efficient fluorescent blue OLED, or organic light emitting diode.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Low power, programmable cell array demonstrated by NEC

NEC Corporation announced today the successful demonstration of a low power programmable cell array using a rewritable and nonvolatile solid-electrolyte switch, "NanoBridge," integrated into a 90nm CMOS.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists squeeze more than 1,000 cores on to computer chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have created an ultra-fast 1,000-core computer processor.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 14 | with audio podcast


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