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Silicene is a combination of graphene and silicon that reportedly has a significant chance to reach the semiconductor market before the well-known graphene. Silicene is a single-atom thick layer of silicone interposed in a graphene base and this combination could beat graphene to the components market because the ind... |
2 May 2012
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University of Cambridge investigators announce the development of a new method for obtaining solar-grade silicon at low cost. This improvement could finally see efficient solar cells making their way into mainstream use for electricity generation.
Producing energy from renewable sources is an important drive for sci... |
18 April 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Using solution-processed organic semiconductors, researchers with the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory managed to achieve a breakthrough in the field of plastic electronics.
The team may have set the foundation for developing fast and flexible plastic electronics that consume only limited amounts... |
9 April 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Silicon expert Chipworks has torn down the new Apple iPad with the main purpose of analyzing each and every piece of semiconducting material in it. They’ve confirmed that the 4G / LTE version has an additional logic board that houses a lot of extra chips. The tech-savvy team at iFixit usually works hand in han... |
2 April 2012
13:01 GMT |
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IBM is still the packaging king as they’ve been for the last decade or so. They were first to the market with a really big MCM module of “bubble memory” back in the ’70, a huge MCM server design using their Power5 architecture in 2003, and now they are back with a new packaging technology. O... |
26 March 2012
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A team of experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was recently able to provide an accurate explanation for the weird behavior that gold displays at the nanoscale, when heated atop a silicon surface.
The bizarre patterns were first observed by a Berkel... |
2 March 2012
03:11 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), led by materials scientist John Rogers, is working on developing elastic electronics. These devices could be used for a variety of applications, primarily in medicine and biotechnology.
Replacing tough, silicon-based electronics wi... |
30 January 2012
10:15 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, announce the creation of the world's smallest carbon nanotube transistors, a device that measures only 9 nanometers across. That is the equivalent of 9 billionths of a meter. As the drive towards miniaturizing electronics... |
26 January 2012
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A collaboration of German experts from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-PR), in Mainz, and the Technical University Darmstadt (TUD) announces the development of a transparent superamphiphobic coating made of glass, a material that repels both water and oil.
With it, experts hope to be able to crea... |
8 December 2011
06:29 GMT |
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The next generation of lithium-ion batteries could recharge in just 15 minutes, and remain operational for at least a week, according to a new report from scientists at the Northwestern University.
The group developed a new method for boosting battery efficiency, which relies heavily on the use of a bi-dimensional ... |
16 November 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Brain probes are used for a variety of medical applications, but they have one major flaw, namely the fact that they scar brain tissue in the area where they are inserted in the brain. Now, experts develop a new type of probe, which turns pliable within minutes of being introduced inside gray matter.
This ability s... |
3 November 2011
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A collaboration of researchers at the Yale University announces the development of a new mechanical switch. The device consists of a very small silicon bridge, which can be flipped from one stable configuration through another by light generated from a small laser device. The research group, led by experts Mahmood Ba... |
24 October 2011
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By using unusual types of materials and innovative arrangements, investigators at the Arizona State University (ASU) were recently able to set the basis of a new solar cell design. The experts behind this work say that their new solar cells will soon exceed the performances of any other.
Electrical engineering Ph... |
7 October 2011
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US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) physicists announce the development of a new approach to improving lithium-ion batteries, the most common portable energy-storing devices in use today.
While these batteries provide acceptable performances for cell phones, laptops,... |
23 September 2011
10:40 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers at the Stanford University, in the United States, announces the development of a new method of fabrication nanoscale wires. The technique can be used to create nanowires that can be attached to any surface or material. Thus far, these structures were limited in their uses, in the sense ... |
29 July 2011
04:19 GMT |
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According to the results of a new analysis produced by electrical engineers at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), it would appear that replacing electrical microprocessors with their magnetic counterparts might help improve performance, while at the same time reducing consumption.In the future, computers... |
4 July 2011
02:41 GMT |
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In the very near future, advanced computers and electronics will no longer contain the silicon, the chemical on which this industry was built, but rather a carbon compound called graphene. Innovations in materials science, recently made in the United States, make using the material feasible. Investigators at the Purd... |
26 May 2011
07:31 GMT |
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A group of scientists managed to achieve an important milestone in the attempt to develop a new generation of microprocessors, when expert succeeded in growing nanolasers on a silicon surface. This brings new hope that the processors of the future will contain built-in nanoscale lasers, that will considerably augment... |
7 February 2011
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A team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the development of a new method for producing silicon wires inexpensively and straightforward. This could translate practically into the creation of new generation of sensors, solar cells and batteries. One of the most important areas... |
4 February 2011
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French researchers with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) propose in a new article that using molybdenite instead of silicon or graphene could allow for the creation of smaller, cheaper, more energy-efficient electronic chips, and other electronic devices. The proposal is detail... |
31 January 2011
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Boasted as one of the greatest innovations in processors manufacturing, graphene isn't yet ready to take the place of silicon in the CPU fabrication process, an IBM researcher revealing that such a transistor can't actually be completely switched off, raising energy efficiency and gate signalling problems.W... |
24 January 2011
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A group of investigators in the United States has developed a method of improving silicon's ability to absorb lithium ions, an achievement that may lead to the development of higher-capacity lithium-ion batteries. The team, made up of researchers at the Rice University and Lockheed Martin, says that it has devel... |
15 October 2010
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A team of researchers that arguably had too much time on its hands announces that it managed to count the number of atoms in a kilogram of silicon. They did so by dividing the quantity into smaller volumes. In science, this number is known as the Avogadro's constant, and it refers to the atoms that can be found ... |
14 October 2010
06:29 GMT |
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Investigators have recently discovered that producing graphene-based circuits at a large scale has the potential to revolutionize the electronics industry, augmenting its capabilities beyond what is currently possible with silicon-based materials. If the new carbon compound starts being used on a large scale, it coul... |
14 October 2010
02:27 GMT |
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A team of experts from California announces that it manage to improve silicon-based thermoelectric materials to such an extent, that they are now able to harvest waste heat energy.The accomplishment is tremendously important, researchers say, given that it could lead to the creation of devices that can convert heat f... |
4 October 2010
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In an achievement that could change the way the electronics industry runs, experts at an American university managed to develop the first two-terminal memory chips made entirely out of silicon.The accomplishment could have far-reaching implications for the electronics industry, as well as for mamoelectronic manufactu... |
1 September 2010
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The key to the next generation of supercomputers might just be diamonds with small nitrogen-filled holes in them, according to some California scientists.Who ever said that “diamonds are a girl's best friend” did not know any computer specialist, the proof being the latest invention of researchers fr... |
28 August 2010
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Discovering all there is to know about graphene is one of the most important goal in physics and chemistry today. The amazing properties this material has make it a suitable choice for replacing silicon in electronic devices, but experts are not yet familiar with all of its properties. One of the challenges in the fi... |
7 August 2010
03:58 GMT |
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As some end-users no doubt know, chips used in today's electronics use silicon extensively, whether they are central processing units or some other type of component. Other things, such as solar cells, also rely on this substance. Unfortunately, so far, some such products have been mostly inaccessible, price-wi... |
2 August 2010
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Investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently discovered that the widely-used chemical element silicon is capable of exhibiting the property known as “retrograde melting.” Substances capable of that basically melt as temperatures decrease, opposite than the behavior &ldq... |
2 August 2010
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According to engineers at Duke University, DNA is the material of tomorrow. This is especially true when it comes to producing vast amounts of simple logic circuits. The team here says that a single graduate student could theoretically use a lab bench to produce as much of this logic circuit in a single day than all ... |
12 May 2010
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Scientists based at the University of South Florida (USF) have recently developed a new approach to handling the word “defect.” Generally, most people think about a flaw that needs fixing when they hear this word, but the team says that this should not necessarily be the case. In their research, they arti... |
31 March 2010
02:32 GMT |
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Speaking at the Goldman Sachs annual tech conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, talked about the iPad, the Apple TV, future plans and the key to success in a big company. Cook, as Apple fans know, is the runner-up for CEO at Apple, once Steve Jobs is ready to step dow... |
24 February 2010
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Experts announce the development of what they refer to as micro-carpets, arrays of silicon nanorods that could be used as solar cells in the very near future. Their creators reveal that the new structures are so efficient at converting light into electricity that they could lower the price of solar cells based on the... |
15 February 2010
01:48 GMT |
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Experts have been recently able to demonstrate that beer actually has a number of good effects on the human body, including the fact that it promotes bone health. That is to say, the investigation has evidenced the fact that the fermented beverage is actually a major source of dietary silicone, which is one of the ke... |
8 February 2010
03:17 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking innovation that could see the widespread adoption of plastic-based bendable displays, researchers at a company called Phicot have managed to develop a new method of printing silicon transistors on flexible plastics. This could finally erase the obstacles plaguing the industry, the largest of which... |
1 February 2010
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Graphene is widely believed to be the material of choice for tomorrow's electronic devices, with the sole factor that could get in the way being the fact that current production methods do not allow for its production on a large scale. But a group of experts announces the development of a new production method f... |
1 February 2010
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While today's technology is made up of a variety of device and component classes, each aimed at a specific set of tasks, what they have in common is their use of silicon-based field-effect transistors (FETs). So far, silicon has been central to computing because of its very high carrier mobility, However, IBM Re... |
29 January 2010
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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
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Scientists at the University of Boston have recently developed a new DNA sequencing method that is touted to become a lot cheaper and faster than any current technique in a short time frame. One of the main mechanisms that the new technology employs is reducing the amount of DNA it requires in order to conduct its in... |
21 December 2009
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Scientists at the Stanford University announce the development of the first three-dimensional, carbon nanotube-based circuits in the world. This groundbreaking achievement marks a milestone in the industry, as it means that CNT-based computers, which will consume a lot less power, and also be far faster than the exis... |
18 December 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Intel has reaffirmed its position as a computing innovator with its new research milestone that will allow for the creation of next-generation transistors. So far, transistors based on silicon were subject to large gate leakage because the Schottky gate did not feature any type of gate dielectric. Intel has experimen... |
11 December 2009
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One of the main engines of our civilization as we know it is the miniaturization of the transistor, the main gateway inside microprocessors. Over the past couple of decades, the race has been on to produce the smallest, most efficient transistors, and also to fit as many of them as possible in a small space. But, at ... |
10 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Scientists from a number of universities in Finland have joined forces for a common interest, the development of a silicon-based delivery system at the nanoscale. The innovation holds great promise for carrying drugs to their alloted destinations, and may also provide a new way of combating obesity and excessive appe... |
4 December 2009
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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
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Scientists at IBM, the Purdue University, and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announce the creation of a new generation of ultrasmall transistors and advanced computer processors, which rely solely on the massive improvements made possible by semiconducting nanowires. These small-scale structures a... |
27 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A new scientific paper shows that, soon, silicon-based chips could no longer need electrical current to operate. The work details the advancements that were made in controlling electrons' spin, as opposed to their charge. At this point, microchips must absolutely have electrical current in order to handle data, ... |
26 November 2009
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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
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Scientists at the Stanford University announce the completion of a new class of electronic devices, fully biodegradable organic transistors. The materials hold great promise for the field of medicine, where they could be used to control temporary medical implants, before being harmlessly absorbed within the organism ... |
14 November 2009
14:01 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
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