Baratunde Cola would like to put sand into your computer. Not beach sand, but silicon dioxide nanoparticles coated with a high dielectric constant polymer to inexpensively provide improved cooling for increasingly power-hungry ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 12, 2016
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Nanomaterials, and especially nanoparticles, have been on some people's worry list for at least a decade.
Bio & Medicine
Jun 8, 2016
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A team of researchers from across the country, led by Alexander Spott, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, have built the first quantum cascade laser on silicon. The advance may have applications that span from ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 20, 2016
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A team of researchers at Aix Marseille Université in Marseille, France led by Dr. Frédéric Leroy developed a technique that allows them to follow physical processes occurring at surfaces of materials at the atomic level ...
Nanophysics
Mar 15, 2016
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The semiconducting silicon chip launched the revolution of electronics and computerisation that has made life in the opening years of the 21st century scarcely recognisable from the start of the last. Silicon integrated circuits ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Aug 27, 2015
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Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material.
Condensed Matter
Jun 29, 2015
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Water is the key component in a Rice University process to reliably create patterns of metallic and semiconducting wires less than 10 nanometers wide.
Nanophysics
Apr 6, 2015
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A European research project has made an important step towards the further miniaturisation of nanoelectronics, using a highly-promising new material called silicene. Its goal: to make devices of the future vastly more powerful ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 26, 2015
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Three-dimensional (3D) integration of various materials on top of bulk silicon could be the best answer for cost-effectively marrying optical devices with electronics. A*STAR researchers have used this approach to create ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 18, 2015
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from Italy and the U.S. has succeeded in building a transistor based on silicene, for the very first time. In their paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the ...
