News tagged with silicon carbide
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Nuclear reactor technology research dwindled away when nuclear power fell out of favor several decades ago. Renewed interest in fission-based energy means knowledge gained in past research is relevant again.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 04, 2011 |
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Extending Moore's Law: Expitaxial graphene shows promise for replacing silicon in electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Move over silicon. There's a new electronic material in town, and it goes fast. That material, the focus of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics, is graphene -- a fancy name for extremely thin ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 07, 2011 |
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New graphene fabrication method uses silicon carbide template
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new "templated growth" technique for fabricating nanometer-scale graphene devices. The method addresses what had been a ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Technology in the extreme
Radio transmitters that can withstand temperatures of up to 900 C could soon be dropped into the depths of the earth to provide early warning of a volcanic eruption.
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Mechanical logic gate: Could levers replace transistors?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Back in the Victorian period, Charles Babbage created a mechanical computer that made use of levers and cogs to get data moving. These days, though, our computers are mostly run using electronic ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Study investigates craters formed by raindrops (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hiroaki Katsuragi and a team from Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, have been investigating what happens when water drops of various sizes are allowed to fall from a height of 10 to 480 ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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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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Graphene: What projections and humps can be good for
At present, graphene probably is the most investigated new material system worldwide. Due to its astonishing mechanical, chemical and electronic properties, it promises manifold future applications - for example ...
Apr 19, 2010 |
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IBM Scientists Demonstrate World's Fastest Graphene Transistor
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device ...
Feb 05, 2010 |
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Next generation devices get boost from graphene research
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electro-Optics Center (EOC) Materials Division at Penn State have produced 100 mm diameter graphene wafers, a key milestone in the development of graphene for next generation ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 22, 2010 |
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ORMatE returns to NRL after nearly 2 years in Earth orbit
Completing an 18-month mission orbiting the Earth more than 6,000 times on-orbit the International Space Station (ISS), the Optical Reflector Material Experiment (ORMatE-1) returns to Washington, D.C., to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Fitting squares into circles
Particle filters are standard in the basic fittings for cars. Construction machines, city buses and garbage trucks must now follow suit. This can be achieved effectively and inexpensively thanks to a new material ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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ESA to launch two large observatories to look deep into space and time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the most sophisticated astronomical spacecraft ever built - Herschel and Planck - will be launched by ESA this month towards deep space orbits around a special observation point beyond ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 07, 2009 |
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Tension in the nanoworld
(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...
Jan 23, 2009 |
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Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields
(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...
Jan 12, 2009 |
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