News tagged with transmission device

In nanorod crystal growth, nanoparticles seen as artificial atoms

In the growth of crystals, do nanoparticles act as "artificial atoms" forming molecular-type building blocks that can assemble into complex structures? This is the contention of a major but controversial theory ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Getting in tune: Researchers solve tuning problem for wireless power transfer systems

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to fine-tune wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers, making the systems more efficient and functional. WPT systems hold promise for charging electric ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NTT researchers develop breakthrough optical memory device

(PhysOrg.com) -- To improve transmission speeds, the Internet has transitioned over the years from one using copper to fiber optic cabling. Unfortunately, this has caused a bottleneck to occur where the light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Engineers develop rapid, uniform dispersion method for carbon nanotubes in solutions and solids

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harnessing the power of carbon nanotubes could get considerably easier, thanks to an advance by engineers from the University of South Carolina and the University of Georgia.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Japan collab transmits record data speeds on terahertz waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Japan-based semiconductor manufacturer Rohm, together with a team from Osaka University, have come up with a chip that, in experiments, has achieved a wireless data transmission ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 20 | with audio podcast weblog

New metamaterial allows transmission gain while retaining negative refraction property

A new type of active metamaterial that incorporates semiconductor devices into conventional metamaterial structures is demonstrating an ability to have power gain while retaining its negative refraction property, a first ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel man-made material could facilitate wireless power

Electrical engineers at Duke University have determined that unique man-made materials should theoretically make it possible to improve the power transfer to small devices, such as laptops or cell phones, or ultimately to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Data storage takes an electric turn

(PhysOrg.com) -- German scientists from the Forschungszentrum Julich and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle have discovered the basis for the next generation of memory devices. In ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Fundamental discovery could lead to better memory chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to improve the performance of ferroelectric materials, which have the potential to make memory devices with more storage ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Samsung releases 1-Gbit DRAM chip with 512-pin wide I/O interface

(PhysOrg.com) -- Samsung Electronics announced the development of a 1-Gbit DRAM chip. It features a 512-pin wide I/O interface that is designed for a variety of mobile applications including smartphones and tablet PC's.

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

New 4G network could cause widespread GPS dead zones

(PhysOrg.com) -- If a plan to build new 4G mobile phone base stations in the US goes ahead, engineers say GPS satellite navigation systems will be seriously jammed and huge areas of the country will become ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Seeing the light: Scientists bring plasmonic nanofields into focus

In typical plasmonic devices, electromagnetic waves crowd into tiny metal structures, concentrating energy into nanoscale dimensions. Due to coupling of electronics and photonics in these metal ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

S. Africa halts rollout of circumcision device

(AP) -- The South African government has halted the rollout of a controversial male circumcision device, health department spokesman Fidel Hadebe said Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

First direct observation of unusual magnetic structure could lead to novel electronic, magnetic memory devices

In conventional ferromagnets, the individual magnetic moments of the atoms that together comprise the magnetism of the material are all aligned parallel, pointing in a common direction. In ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Gov't plans to double available wireless spectrum

(AP) -- The Obama administration intends to nearly double the available amount of wireless communications spectrum over the next 10 years in an effort to keep up with the ever-growing demand for high-speed ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1