News tagged with silicon oxide

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

HELIOS makes silicon breakthrough

Researchers in Europe have succeeded in presenting an integrated tuneable transmitter on silicon - the first time this has ever happened. This results are an outcome of the HELIOS ('Photonics electronics functional ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Nanotrees harvest the sun's energy to turn water into hydrogen fuel

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, San Diego electrical engineers are building a forest of tiny nanowire trees in order to cleanly capture solar energy without using fossil fuels and harvest it for ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Inspired by steel, nanomanufacturing gets wear-resistant carbide tip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research - Zurich have fabricated an ultrasharp silicon carbide tip possessing such high strength ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Renesas develops first 40nm embedded flash memory technology IP for automotive real-time applications

Renesas Electronics today announced that it has developed the industry's first 40-nanometer (nm) memory intellectual property (IP) for automotive real-time applications. Renesas will also be the first to launch 40nm embedded ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Instant nanodots grow on silicon to form sensing array

Scientists have shown that it is now possible to simultaneously create highly reproductive three-dimensional silicon oxide nanodots on micrometric scale silicon films in only a few seconds. Xavier Landreau and his colleagues ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Oscar Madison' approach to solar cells may outshine 'Felix Unger' design

Sometimes neatness may not be necessary. Researchers have demonstrated that a tangled coating of randomly positioned nanowires can increase solar cell efficiency by absorbing more light.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view

For the first time, scientists have devised an invisibility cloak material that hides objects from detection using light that is visible to humans. The new device is a leap forward in cloaking materials, according to a report ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Elpida uses high-K metal gate technology to develop 2-gigabit DDR2 mobile RAM

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced the DRAM industry's first-ever use of high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology to develop a 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM (LPDDR2) ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rice-made memory chips headed to space

Rice University will send an experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. If all goes perfectly, it will be precisely the same when it returns two years later.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mapping deformation in buried semiconductor structures using the hard X-Ray nanoprobe

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center and Columbia University, working with the X-Ray Microscopy Group, have mapped rotation and strain fields across a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Nano-bricks' may help build better packaging to keep foods fresher longer

Scientists are reporting on a new material containing an ingredient used to make bricks that shows promise as a transparent coating for improving the strength and performance of plastic food packaging. Called "nano-bricks," ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Room-temperature spintronic computers? Silicon spin transistors heat up and spins last longer

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah researchers built "spintronic" transistors and used them to align the magnetic "spins" of electrons for a record period of time in silicon chips at room temperature. The ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanorods could greatly improve visual display of information (w/ Video)

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have developed tiny, nanoscale-size rods of iron oxide particles in the lab that respond to an external magnetic field in a way that could dramatically improve ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New center aims to dramatically lower barrier to making silicon photonic chips

The University of Washington today announced the launch of a new program, co-funded by Intel Corp., that aims to make it dramatically easier and cheaper to manufacture silicon chips that combine light and ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0