At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have followed the growth of tiny wires of gallium arsenide live. Their observations reveal exact details of the growth process responsible for the evolving shape and crystal structure ...
Nanophysics
Feb 9, 2018
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115
Electronic devices are getting smaller and smaller. Early computers filled entire rooms. Today you can hold one in the palm of your hand. Now the field of molecular electronics is taking miniaturization to the next level. ...
Materials Science
Jan 17, 2018
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6
Half of all the transistors in your iPhone use positively-charged 'holes', rather than negatively-charged electrons to operate.
General Physics
Nov 14, 2017
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12
The increasing miniaturisation in electronics will result in components which consist of only a few molecules, or even just one molecule. Tiny wires are required to connect these to an electrical circuit at the nano level. ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 27, 2017
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14
The phenomenon that forms interference patterns on television displays when a camera focuses on a pattern like a person wearing stripes has inspired a new way to conceptualize electronic devices. Researchers at the University ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 26, 2017
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188
Consumer demand continually pushes the electronics industry to design smaller devices. Now researchers at A*STAR have used a theoretical model to assess the potential of electric wires made from polymer chains that could ...
Polymers
Jun 14, 2017
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4
In particle physics, the difference of a millimeter or two can make or break the experiment. In March, the LArIAT experiment began a proof-of-concept test to make sure the planned Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) ...
General Physics
Apr 13, 2017
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14
Try bending your iPhone in half. Or roll up your tablet like a scroll. Or wrap a touchscreen TV around a pole. Didn't work out so well, did it? That's because the ceramic material used to make many of today's touchscreens ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 31, 2017
0
18
Don't assume that a grass fire has damaged the barbed wire on a fence.
Ecology
Mar 17, 2017
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9
Scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil causes carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires, a phenomenon they call "Teslaphoresis."
Nanomaterials
Apr 14, 2016
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