For past several decades, the processor industry has enjoyed the benefits of chip miniaturization and the exponential increase in the number of on-chip transistors as predicted by Moore's law. However, as process technology ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Jan 5, 2016
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A team of researchers, including some from Michigan State University, is making a smart material smarter.
Engineering
Sep 15, 2015
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Phase change random access memory (PRAM) is one of the strongest candidates for next-generation nonvolatile memory for flexible and wearable electronics. In order to be used as a core memory for flexible devices, the most ...
Nanophysics
Jun 15, 2015
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Materials melt faster when the lines of heat spread through the cold material like the branches of a tree—and the melting rate can be steadily increased by allowing the tree architecture to freely evolve over time, researchers ...
General Physics
Jun 9, 2015
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There is an ever growing demand for high speed internet communication systems. New research has shown optical switching technology built on nanoantenna reflectarrays and tunable materials could transform high speed optical ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 2, 2014
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Research by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) shows how householders could stay warm for less simply by storing heat better.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 24, 2014
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The seemingly simple process of phase changes—those transitions between states of matter—is more complex than previously known, according to research based at Princeton University, Peking University and New York University.
Condensed Matter
Nov 6, 2014
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Thermal energy storage is a common strategy in energy production systems in which the period of production does not coincide with that of consumption. This happens with the production of hot water by means of solar thermal ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 23, 2014
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A new discovery will make it possible to create pixels just a few hundred nanometres across that could pave the way for extremely high-resolution and low-energy thin, flexible displays for applications such as 'smart' glasses, ...
Engineering
Jul 9, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from the University of Cambridge, Argonne National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have unlocked one of the secrets of lithium ion batteries. In their paper published ...
