(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may have revealed the optimal characteristics for a new type of computer memory now under development. The work, performed in collaboration ...
Nanophysics
May 19, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an interesting feat of nanoscale engineering, researchers at Lund University in Sweden and the University of New South Wales have made the first nanowire transistor featuring a concentric metal 'wrap-gate' ...
Nanophysics
Apr 7, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers may soon be singing, "I'm going to wash that gray right out of my nanowires," thanks to a colorful discovery by a team of researchers from Harvard University and Zena Technologies. In contrast to ...
Nanophysics
Apr 4, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Semiconductor nanowires are essential materials in the development of cheaper and more efficient solar cells, as well as batteries with higher storage capacity. Moreover, they are important building blocks ...
Nanophysics
Mar 23, 2011
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have created the first coils of silicon nanowire on a substrate that can be stretched to more than double their original length, moving us closer to incorporating stretchable ...
Nanophysics
Jan 11, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To thwart possible terrorist attacks and to detect contamination on sites of former military installations, researchers have been concentrating their efforts in recent years on methods for the detection and ...
Analytical Chemistry
Sep 15, 2010
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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 already to a size ...
Nanophysics
Feb 2, 2010
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(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 has remained ...
Nanophysics
Jan 6, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial development ...
Nanophysics
Dec 16, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.
Nanophysics
Dec 9, 2009
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