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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
From ACM Careers Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and… BNN | February 28, 2024
Synchronizing Optical Clocks To One Quadrillionth Of A Second
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Synchronizing Optical Clocks To One Quadrillionth Of A Second

Despite distance and turbulence challenges, a team of researchers has successfully used a frequency comb to demonstrate femtosecond-level optical clock synchronization... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | October 12, 2016
Tuning Materials and Devices to Adapt to Their Environment
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Tuning Materials and Devices to Adapt to Their Environment

Researchers at UCSB are trying to leverage advanced and scalable materials deposition techniques to create tunable, high-frequency integrated circuits and devices... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | September 13, 2016
Swapping Substrates Improves Edges of Graphene Nanoribbons
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Swapping Substrates Improves Edges of Graphene Nanoribbons

A team of researchers from China and Japan have devised a way to make monolayer graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges in the lab. American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | August 1, 2016
Tabletop Instrument Tests Electron Mobility for Next Generation Electronics
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Tabletop Instrument Tests Electron Mobility for Next Generation Electronics

Researchers have built a tabletop instrument that can perform measurements that were previously possible only at large national high magnetic field laboratories... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | May 24, 2016
Diamonds Closer to Becoming Ideal Semiconductors
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Diamonds Closer to Becoming Ideal Semiconductors

Researchers have found a new way to dope single crystals of diamonds, a crucial process for building semiconductors and possibly more efficient electronic devices... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | May 24, 2016
Researchers Introduce Disposable Laser
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Researchers Introduce Disposable Laser

Researchers from France and Hungary have invented a way to print lasers that's so cheap, easy, and efficient they believe the core of the laser could be disposed... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | May 4, 2016
Cooling Chips With the Flip of a Switch
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Cooling Chips With the Flip of a Switch

Researchers at Penn State have created a dielectric material that can hold absorbed heat even after the external electric field has been switched off. American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | April 6, 2016
Printing Nanomaterials with Plasma
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Printing Nanomaterials with Plasma

Researchers have developed a new method that uses plasma to print nanomaterials onto a 3-D object or flexible surface, such as paper or cloth. American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | March 23, 2016
Outsourcing Crystal Growth. . .to Space
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Outsourcing Crystal Growth. . .to Space

To better isolate the growth and measurement of protein crystals from the effects of gravity, a group of researchers grew crystals in a specially-designed chamber... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | March 16, 2016
Warming Up Optoelectronic Research
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Warming Up Optoelectronic Research

A team of physicists has created a new material that can control excitons — bound pairs of electrons and electron holes — at room temperature, opening a path toward... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | March 8, 2016
Nanodevice, Build Thyself
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Nanodevice, Build Thyself

Researcher into the electronic interactions of molecules could yield information that may one day be harnessed to make molecular building blocks self-assemble into... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | January 15, 2016
Double the (quantum) Fun
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Double the (quantum) Fun

A detailed analysis of the electrical characteristics of a tiny transistor made from two quantum dots could help researchers design better devices to manipulate... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | October 6, 2015
Communicating with Hypersonic Vehicles in Flight
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Communicating with Hypersonic Vehicles in Flight

Researchers propose a potential new way to maintain communication with re-entering spacecraft and other vehicles by matching resonance of the communication antenna... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | June 17, 2015
Futuristic Components on Silicon Chips, Fabricated Successfully
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Futuristic Components on Silicon Chips, Fabricated Successfully

IBM researchers develop a technique for integrating III-V materials onto silicon wafers, a development that may allow an extension to Moore's Law. American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | June 9, 2015
Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards
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Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | April 22, 2015
Carbon Nanotube Computing?
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Carbon Nanotube Computing?

A group of researchers is exploring the use of single-walled carbon nanotube composites for use in unconventional computing based on the concept of evolvable hardware... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | April 8, 2015
Future Electronics Based on Carbon Nanotubes
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Future Electronics Based on Carbon Nanotubes

A research team has found a way to purify arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes, possibly providing a step toward post-silicon circuits and devices. American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | April 8, 2015
Tweets Measure Political Polarization
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Tweets Measure Political Polarization

Spanish researchers analyzed 16 million tweets from more than 3 million users following the death of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela to quantify the extent of political... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | April 1, 2015
Can 'Tandem' Photovoltaics Boost Solar Cell Efficiencies?
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Can 'Tandem' Photovoltaics Boost Solar Cell Efficiencies?

By stacking perovskites atop conventional silicon solar cells, a team of researchers created "tandem" photovoltaics that may achieve significantly higher energy... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | March 25, 2015
A New Spin on Spintronics
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A New Spin on Spintronics

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University is exploring new materials that could yield higher computational speeds... American Institute of Physics
From ACM Careers | February 18, 2015
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