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New material for nanoscale computer chips
Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen have developed nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires. ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Smaller, cheaper cell phones possible
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ph.D. candidate Sataporn Pornpromlikit played a critical role in research at UC San Diego that made a big impact at a recent conference, and might provide manufacturers with the means for making cell phones ...
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Optical chip detects blood molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- A portable 'lab on a chip' that can identify target molecules in blood samples has been created by European researchers. It is being used to measure fertility hormones and detect the genes ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz
Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles
Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles and may ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Manipulating light on a chip for quantum technologies
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists and engineers at Bristol University has demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons — on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after ...
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Intel hit with $1.45B fine in Europe
(AP) -- Intel Corp. was fined a record $1.45 billion by the European Union on Wednesday for using strong-arm sales tactics in the computer chip market - a penalty that could turn up the pressure on U.S. regulators ...
May 13, 2009 |
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'Most extreme' material: Graphene could be successor to silicon for next generation microchips; 200 times stronger than
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a blown-up image from a scanning tunneling microscope, it looks just like an endless sheet of chicken wire: a simple flat sheet made up of a lattice of hexagons. But this nanoscopic material ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 05, 2009 |
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Apple 'to design own computer chips'
Apple is building the capability to design its own computer chips in a strategic shift aimed at cutting its reliance on outside suppliers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Departure of chip-design legend Bob Pease prompts outpouring in Silicon Valley
Bob Pease is a genuine Silicon Valley rock star who I never would have heard of had he not lost his job, or left his job. It's not entirely clear which.
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Scientists control complex nucleation processes using DNA origami seeds
The construction of complex man-made objects--a car, for example, or even a pizza--almost invariably entails what are known as "top-down" processes, in which the structure and order of the thing being built ...
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Scientists build world's first nanofluidic device with complex 3-D surfaces
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Flexible, transparent supercapacitors -- bend and twist them like a poker card
It is a completely transparent and flexible energy conversion and storage device that you can bend and twist like a poker card.
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Scientists make quantum leap in developing faster computers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have created a molecular device which could act as a building block for future generations of superfast computers.
Mar 19, 2009 |
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