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A group of investigators from the Rice University announces the development of a new method for producing bulk amounts graphene oxide (GO). The approach can also be used to break up large quantities of the compound, which means that the team essentially developed a new means of ensuring a steady supply of the stuff. ... |
23 July 2010
07:02 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, experts at the Cornell University determined that using single-molecule devices for applications at very small scales iwa both practical and feasible. The group conducted a series of experiments on individual molecules, and learned that these structures could produce the necessary elect... |
11 June 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announce the development of a new technology that could, in the future, see devices such as pacemakers being powered by a patient's own heart. The innovation is based on zinc oxide nanowires, a class of materials that show great promise for underly... |
4 June 2010
05:16 GMT |
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Everyone knows that graphene is the one-atom-thick carbon compound that holds the promise to innovate the world of the electronics industry. But very few people know that the insulating equivalent of this material, called graphane, is also right up there in terms of preferences, at least from the scientific community... |
26 May 2010
14:01 GMT |
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A group of experts at the Rice University in the United States announces the development of a new method for producing the famous field-effect transistors (FET), the basic units of integrated circuits that make advanced electronic devices possible. The scientists say that they used ink-jet printers to produce thin fi... |
26 May 2010
06:39 GMT |
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Scientists believe that the chemical magnesium holds great promise for the future. Over the past few years, as people have begun waking up and realizing that they are harming the planet, much more emphasis has been placed on discovering alternative energy sources and materials. There are many goals in this effort, in... |
21 May 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Ever since computers were invented and developed, numerous scientists and science-fiction authors alike have been fantasizing about connecting the two. We are not talking about cyborgs necessarily, but about allowing humans to interact with machines directly, at a cellular level, without the need for cumbersome perip... |
20 May 2010
09:50 GMT |
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When music fans talk about “hot sounds,” they have an entirely different thing in mind than physicists. The latter group is thinking about a host of acoustic phenomena that are effective in removing heat from various electronic devices. Now, experts at the Rice University have identified a process in whic... |
29 April 2010
09:24 GMT |
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Experts in the industry have been working on producing flexible electronics for many years. Gaining this ability could see the creation of new classes of devices, capable of being bent and twisted according to desire, while still maintaining their function. An advancement in this direction has been recently reached b... |
28 April 2010
03:04 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new finding, the field of spintronics may have just received the boost it needed to take over the electronics industry from conventional approaches. This emerging area of research relies on using spin for storing data. In other words, the quantum mechanical properties of electrons can be used to e... |
27 April 2010
07:00 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States, featuring scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Drexel University believes it may have finally solved a very limiting problem plaguing electronics today. The researchers say that batteries are at ... |
26 April 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Nanoscale structures such as tubes, wires and rods are considered to be the future of many industries, including that of renewable energy and electronics. But difficulties in producing these materials according to precise specifications hinder their wide-scale adoption in these fields. Now, researchers based in the U... |
23 April 2010
03:55 GMT |
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Since it was first discovered in 2004, the two-dimensional carbon compound graphene has been hailed as one of the most promising materials to have hit the market in years. Originally derived from 3D graphite, the material exhibits superior electron mobility, mechanical strength and thermal conductivity, which are all... |
9 April 2010
16:01 GMT |
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A group of experts from the Southern Methodist University (SMU), in Dallas, announces the development of a new, super-fast circuit designed specifically to augment the capabilities of one of the main particle detectors of the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is the largest physics experiment ever designed, and its goal... |
9 April 2010
04:44 GMT |
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A group of physicists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has recently announced the results of a new investigation, whose goal was to assess the interactions that appear between graphene and metal. The reason why such work is being conducted is because the new material ... |
2 April 2010
09:05 GMT |
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A collaboration of universities in the United States has recently produced a new type of silicon-based, biocompatible devices that could in the near future combat the effects of arrhythmia. This is a condition of the heart that makes the organ skip a beat from time to time, or simply move irregularly. The new instrum... |
25 March 2010
17:01 GMT |
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A group of researchers has recently announced the development of a new type of nanoscale tip that represents a significant improvement from existing technologies. The new structure, which is shaped like a tip, has a massive resistance to wear, and is far more suitable for a wide range of applications than its silicon... |
26 February 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Retrevo, a consumer electronics shopping and review site, has issued new reports shedding more light on customer trends, including the most popular iPhone apps today, and the urge of shopping via a mobile device. Trying to answer the question, “Are Consumers Warming Up to Shopping On Their Mobile Phones?,&rdqu... |
23 February 2010
05:43 GMT |
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Certain types of molecules are capable of organizing themselves in specific patterns on the surface of materials, but thus far researchers have been unable to find a way of predicting what patterns will result. Having this ability is absolutely essential for developing new materials and electronics, which are heavily... |
19 February 2010
18:31 GMT |
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Not too many decades ago, the common crimes in the United Kingdom revolved around stealing household good, and later appliances, as well as cars. This made economic sense at the time, considering the price of these things, and the fact that they remained inaccessible to the majority of the population. Thieves therefo... |
10 February 2010
05:30 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, the use of electronic media is not directly linked to the increase incidence of headaches that children, adolescents and teens experience today. The investigation revolved around youngsters, because they are most likely to get affected if these devices were to pose any harm. The s... |
9 February 2010
17:01 GMT |
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At this point, the foundation of the electronics industry lies directly on semiconductors, materials that provide computers with the substrate they need to achieve their full performances. Many semiconductors, in turn, are built out of thin films, which need to be grown in the lab. Researchers at the Cornell Universi... |
22 January 2010
16:01 GMT |
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We are proud to present today a new Ubuntu-based (or Remix) Linux distribution, this time for electronics. Called Ubuntu Electronics Remix, or UER for short, it is based on the popular Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system and comes as a Live DVD ISO image with lots of free electronics software. Except for the ... |
22 January 2010
09:47 GMT |
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According to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KMF), children nowadays tend to spend at least ten hours each day watching electronic media, in a trend that appears to be growing more massive with each passing year. This state of affairs has led many researchers to ask whether kids are not missing out on a... |
22 January 2010
06:30 GMT |
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The race for advancing miniaturization capabilities in the electronics industry has been on for decades, and undoubtedly considerable progress has been made over the years. But a few years back, it became clear that a new method of constructing microprocessors and their transistors would have to be created, so the na... |
5 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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The dream of a European research group, once thought to be something pertaining to science-fiction, may actually represent the basis of a new class of optoelectronic devices. According to experts, the innovation proposed by the team could result in massive improvements being brought to a wide array of research fields... |
4 January 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Scientists from the Yale University, in the United States, and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, in South Korea, have recently managed to demonstrate the first molecular transistor made out of a single molecule. The finding could have significant implications for the field of electronics research, as i... |
28 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Gyroscopes are perhaps some of the most well-known toys in the world, as they were all the rage for children living in the 20th century. They were used for a variety of applications, ranging from replacing magnetic compasses to helping stabilize satellites in orbit, but now the main goal in the field is to reduce the... |
28 December 2009
06:58 GMT |
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Scientists are thrilled about the creation of a new class of devices, bendable antennas that could see numerous applications in the near future. Ranging from advanced portable devices to gadgets that need to be folded or rolled up before deployment could all benefit from the new instruments, which can be bent, twiste... |
1 December 2009
04:09 GMT |
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In spite of the massive amount of work that has been placed into making carbon nanotubes a standard material for our civilization, creating flexible arrays using the nanostructures has proven to be extremely difficult until now. The structures have the ability to innovate, among other things, the display control circ... |
23 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the amount of work that has gone into determining the characteristics of silicon nanowires has increased considerably, mostly because they represent the future of the electronics industry, right next to their carbon nanotube cousins. In their search for ever-smaller technologies, manufacturer... |
12 November 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a number of groundbreaking discoveries have been made that could easily change the ways in which we look at producing electronics. Advancements have been registered on all fronts, including in nanotechnology (smaller wires), polymers (organic electronics), and, last but not least, materials. ... |
4 November 2009
08:21 GMT |
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For a very long time, scientists have dreamed about combining electronics with the human body, and now it would appear that they have succeeded. A group of experts managed to create a type of circuit that essentially dissolved into the human body. The way they accomplished that was by combining thin, flexible silicon... |
3 November 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Interactive walls are not something entirely new. Attempts at producing aesthetically pleasing designs in an electronic fashion are fairly old, but most of the previous approaches to accomplishing this rely on very power-hungry sensors and projectors. This makes the wallpapers an unfeasible alternative to their paper... |
29 October 2009
03:45 GMT |
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Nanopillars are extremely small filaments of material, with sizes of just a few billionths of a millimeter. Growing them on polymer substrates has proven to be a very daunting task over the past decade, because science teams couldn't figure out how to individually separate them, and make them “grow” ... |
23 October 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that fit on an average microprocessor will double in size every couple of years, and that the trend will at one point reach a limit that will no longer allow it to continue. Engineers are painfully aware of the fact that semiconductors such as silicon will eventu... |
17 October 2009
04:59 GMT |
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Scientists from the Arizona State University (ASU) have recently managed to bring a significant contribution to creating future electronic devices, when they have made a new type of diode, barely the size of a molecule. The incredibly small device could be used in chips and processors in the near future, alongside ot... |
13 October 2009
20:51 GMT |
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Graphene is a carbon compound featuring some peculiar physical and chemical properties, which was discovered just five years ago. Since then, it has been investigated extensively, as experts hope to manufacture it for electronics production one day. Recently, a team of experts from Italy, the United States, and the U... |
12 October 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Waveforms are concepts very well known to those working with electricity, or in music production, but for different reasons. They are graphical shapes showing how electrical signals vary over time, and they are extremely useful in setting the groundwork for new types of circuits and other electronic devices. Now, sci... |
7 October 2009
10:55 GMT |
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Manipulating DNA strands individually and precisely is one of the most sought-after technologies in science today, simply because this would open up tremendous, new research possibilities in fields ranging from medicine to computing. In the latter, circuits made from nanomaterials combined with DNA could lead to amaz... |
16 September 2009
22:01 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the electronic circuits that will make up the appliances of the future will be a long way away from the equipment we see today. New materials, new technologies, a combination of organic and inorganic molecules, and a higher degree of miniaturization will change the aspect of circuit boards forever. Effor... |
16 September 2009
10:36 GMT |
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Tired of typing endlessly on your computer keyboard, or sick of having to always cram your fingers on your smartphone's small screen? Then you may be happy to hear that neuroscientists from the Canton, New York-based Norconnect Inc., the Duke University, and the St. Lawrence University had you in mind when they ... |
29 August 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Microprocessor architects have hoped for a long time that a day will come when molecule-sized electronic components will become readily available and fit for implementation in next-gen devices. Scientists at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently developed a new, small-scale “s... |
28 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the innovations that will make the computers and electronics of tomorrow run faster and better will consist of printed circuits. Experts have already devised organic circuits that are cheap, efficient and printable, but the trouble is that, unlike their inorganic counterparts, they require two mat... |
24 August 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UI) have recently developed a new kind of very tiny, inorganic, bright, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which they hope to be able to use in practical applications such as thin and foldable video screens. Wall-sized displays could also become possible with ... |
21 August 2009
03:42 GMT |
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When stickers, for instance, are taped to windows or doors, they eventually form blisters. Sunlight hitting them directly also deforms and distorts their colors, until they eventually fall off. While strolling through the corridors of the Edgerton Center, in Building 4 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MI... |
18 August 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFET) are among the latest developments of the relatively new plastic micro-electronics technology. These structures are constructed on organic materials, and also feature electronic components. Creating this type of transistors in a way that is both cost-effective... |
12 August 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Since it was first discovered in 2004, graphene has proven to be one of the most promising new materials in the world, having the potential to be used for new generations of semiconductors and other components of innovative electronic equipment. Now, a group of research institutions has managed to create interconnect... |
11 June 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Future generations of integrated circuit interconnects may no longer be made out of copper, if a new technology devised at the Georgia Institute of Technology catches on. Experts have designed a new way of binding the elements inside these circuits, using graphene, thin layers of graphite, only one atom thick. The ma... |
5 June 2009
06:26 GMT |
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The “dielectric confinement effect,” first proposed in 1979 by scientist L. V. Keldysh, has finally been confirmed with measurements conducted by a team of researchers from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), working together with colleagues from the Worcester Polytechnic Instit... |
6 May 2009
18:01 GMT |
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