News tagged with solid state

Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives

Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects in Advanced Magnetic Devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding—the ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Computing in the quantum dimension

A huge consortium of European researchers is solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum computing applications in the short term. At the same time, it is helping to pave the way to a quantum ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Philips presents OLED-based interactive lighting concepts

Royal Philips Electronics today premiered the world’s first OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) -based interactive lighting concepts, created for both consumer as well as professional use, during the Euroluce ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Life Expectancy on the Rise -- Even for Quantum States

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring and controlling the lifetime of quantum states with potential use in optoelectronic chips. This achievement is highly significant ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

How much netbook can you get for $400?

The hottest segment of the computer market right now is not fancy new Apple laptops or PC gaming machines. It's tiny laptops with older operating systems, cramped keyboards and designs that look like they ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists Produce First Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action (w/Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science fiction fans still have another two months of waiting for the new Star Trek movie, but fans of actual science can feast their eyes now on the first movie ever of carbon atoms moving ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (31) | comments 8

Slimmer Nanorods Good Fit for Next-Gen 3-D Computer Chips

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Fusion-io Deliveries The Worlds Fastest SSD

(Physorg.com) -- Fusion-io, a leader in high-performance I/O solutions, announced their new ioDrive Duo. The new ioDrive Duo is one of the fastest and most innovative server-based solid-state storage solutions. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4 weblog

Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have already known that carbon nanotube thin films have mechanical and conductive advantages that could make them useful as electrodes in solar cells, solid state lighting, and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 feature

State-of-the-art electron microscope promises to aid major research advances

Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patience pays off with methanol for uranium bioremediation

The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium is transported ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Sandisk Unleashes World's Fastest MLC SSD Family

SanDisk Corporation today unveiled its third-generation family of solid-state drives (SSDs). Using multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory technology, SanDisk’s G3 Series establishes new benchmarks in performance ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Samsung Introducing High-Speed, High-Capacity 'Green' SSD for Enterprise Market

Samsung Electronics announced today at the Storage Visions 2009 Conference here that it has developed a 100 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive for use in servers for applications such as video on demand, streaming media content ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sandisk Launches Next-Generation Solid-State Drives for Netbooks

SanDisk Corporation today unveiled its next-generation of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSD) to support the evolving needs of designers, manufacturers and users in the exploding netbook market - SanDisk ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0