News tagged with storage density
Novel battery system could reduce buildings' electric bills
The CUNY Energy Institute, which has been developing innovative low-cost batteries that are safe, non-toxic, and reliable with fast discharge rates and high energy densities, announced that it has built an operating prototype ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 08, 2012 |
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Imaging complex domain wall structures in magnetic nanostripes
(Phys.org) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used the scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA) technique to provide ...
Apr 19, 2012 |
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Seagate reaches 1 terabit per square inch milestone with new technology demonstration
Seagate has become the first hard drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, producing a demonstration of the technology that promises to double the storage capacity ...
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Researchers develop graphene supercapacitor holding promise for portable electronics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer in that they store substantially ...
Mar 15, 2012 |
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An electrical switch for magnetic current
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new mechanism will make it possible to switch data storage in the future. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle use a short electric pulse to change ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Magnetic random-access memory based on new spin transfer technology achieves higher storage density
Solid-state memory is seeing an increase in demand due to the emergence of portable devices such as tablet computers and smart phones. Spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (STT-MRAM) ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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The world's smallest magnetic data storage unit
Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Study of switching behavior in differential dual spin valves reveals the role of interlayer couplings
Spin valves are essential building blocks in the magnetic sensors of read heads in hard disk drives. They consist of two magnetic layers separated by a non-magnetic layer and act as valves for electrons depending ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Researchers discover promising hydrogen storage material
(PhysOrg.com) -- If hydrogen is to ever to serve as an onboard energy carrier for the transportation industry, a material will be needed that can store large amounts of hydrogen at ambient temperature and ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Making sodium-ion batteries that are worth their salt
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although lithium-ion technology dominates headlines in battery research and development, a new element is making its presence known as a potentially powerful alternative: sodium.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Fluoride shuttle increases storage capacity
German researchers have developed a new concept for rechargeable batteries. Based on a fluoride shuttle -- the transfer of fluoride anions between the electrodes -- it promises to enhance the storage capacity ...
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Packing in six times more storage density with the help of table salt
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr Joel Yang from the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, with collaborators from ...
Oct 14, 2011 |
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High speed charging device - success in high capacity graphene-based supercapacitors
Professor Jie Tang, Group Leader of the 1D Nanomaterials Research Group of the Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, and Mr. Qian Cheng, a doctoral student and NIMS Junior Researcher in the ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 21, 2011 |
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New energy storage device could recharge electric vehicles in minutes
(PhysOrg.com) -- It has all the appearances of a breakthrough in battery technology, except that it’s not a battery. Researchers at Nanotek Instruments, Inc., and its subsidiary Angstron Materials, Inc., ...
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Improving batteries' energy storage
MIT researchers have found a way to improve the energy density of a type of battery known as lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries, producing a device that could potentially pack several times more energy ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 25, 2011 |
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