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Record performance of dual-gate organic TFT-based RFID circuit

At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), Holst Centre, Imec and TNO present a dual-gate-based organic RFID chip with record data rate and lowest reported operating voltage. For the ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

IBM Scientists Demonstrate World's Fastest Graphene Transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Carbon Based Chips May One Day Replace Silicon Transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM researchers are hopeful that, over the next decade, silicon-based transistors will be replaced by carbon-based transistors. IBM has already laid out the ground work for carbon-based transistors.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

High, not flat: nanowires for a new chip architecture

Nowadays, a myriad of silicon transistors are responsible to pass on the information on a microchip. The transistors are arranged in a planar array, i.e. lying flat next to each other, and have shrunk down ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Next generation devices get boost from graphene research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electro-Optics Center (EOC) Materials Division at Penn State have produced 100 mm diameter graphene wafers, a key milestone in the development of graphene for next generation ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

An organic transistor paves the way for new generations of neuro-inspired computers

For the first time, French researchers at CNRS and CEA have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

European researchers make breakthrough in developing super-material graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Going Beyond Moore's Law by Using the Third Dimension

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated a new microwire fabrication technique in which microwires self-assemble themselves in a three-dimensional template made of nematic liquid crystals. Amidst concerns ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

Nanowires made of 'strained silicon' show how to keep increases in computer power coming

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers keep getting more powerful because silicon transistors keep getting smaller. But that miniaturization can't continue much further without a change to the transistors' design, which ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Consumers to benefit from advances in chip design

Consumers will be able to fix their automobiles while the car gives step-by-step advice, attack their ailments by making computer models of various treatments to find the best one, and duck into virtual fitting rooms to try ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 30, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Scientists create world's first molecular transistor

A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule. The team, which includes researchers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 2

Organic flash memory developed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a non-volatile memory that has the same basic structure as a flash memory but is made from cheap, flexible, organic materials.

Technology / Semiconductors

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Taiwan unveils super-tiny microchip

Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones, researchers and observers said Wednesday.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

NEC Integrates NanoBridge in the Cu Interconnects of Si LSI

NEC Corporation, in collaboration with the National Institute of Materials Science, today announced the successful integration of NanoBridge, a solid electrolyte non-volatile crossbar switch, in Cu interconnects ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fujitsu Announces World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that, using carbon nanotubes as heat-dissipation material in amplifier transistors, Fujitsu has become the first to achieve the successful operation of high-frequency, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1