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IBM's breakthrough chip technology lights the path to exascale computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists today unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light ...

Technology / Semiconductors

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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, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (47) | comments 7 | with audio podcast weblog

New transistors: An alternative to silicon and better than graphene

Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. In an article appearing online January 30 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and St ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 30, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (45) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

First-ever calculation performed on optical quantum computer chip

(PhysOrg.com) -- A primitive quantum computer that uses single particles of light (photons) whizzing through a silicon chip has performed its first mathematical calculation. This is the first time a calculation ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 10

DNA could be backbone of next generation logic chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a single day, a solitary grad student at a lab bench can produce more simple logic circuits than the world's entire output of silicon chips in a month.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Quantum age edges closer

(PhysOrg.com) -- The arrival of superfast quantum computing is closer following recent breakthroughs by an international team led by UNSW researchers.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

IBM creates first graphene based integrated circuit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking a giant step forward in the creation and production of graphene based integrated circuits, IBM has announced in Science, the fabrication of a graphene based integrated circuit on a s ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Silicon chips to enter world of high speed optical processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Sydney have brought silicon chips closer to performing all-optical computing and information processing that could overcome the speed limitations intrinsic ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New silicon memory chip developed

(Phys.org) -- The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions – opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (32) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

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

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (38) | comments 11

Engineers grow nanolasers on silicon, pave way for on-chip photonics

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface, an achievement that could lead to a new class of faster, more efficient microprocessors, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

IBM demonstrates nonoscale 3D patterning technique (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research in Zurich has demonstrated a new nanoscale patterning technique that could replace electron beam lithography (EBL). The demonstration carved a 1:5 billion scale three-dimensional ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (25) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Wizard at circuits, physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Optical chip enables new approach to quantum computing

An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol has developed a new approach to quantum computing that could soon be used to perform complex calculations that cannot be done ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

'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

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