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NIST Researchers Tap Ambient Lighting to Recharge Indoor Devices
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NIST Researchers Tap Ambient Lighting to Recharge Indoor Devices

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology are looking to ambient lighting as a potential source of generating small amounts of power for...

Reinventing the Computer With Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Computing
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Reinventing the Computer With Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Computing

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computing paves the way forward with new directions in computing hardware, algorithms, architectures, and materials.

Using Light to Speed Up Computation
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Using Light to Speed Up Computation

A new type of photonic integrated circuit called a PAXEL, for photonic accelerator, shows promise for high-speed, energy-efficient computing.

Brain-Inspired Architecture Could Improve How Computers Handle Data and Advance AI
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Brain-Inspired Architecture Could Improve How Computers Handle Data and Advance AI

IBM researchers designed a new computer architecture with co-located memory and processing. In studies, their prototype ran 200 times faster than conventional computers...

Building Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Computing
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Building Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Computing

Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures using 2-D materials.

Engaging Diamond For Next-Era Transistors
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Engaging Diamond For Next-Era Transistors

Materials scientists have developed a new diamond transistor fabrication process that promises to advance the development of more robust and energy-efficient electronics...

Light Has New Capacity For Electronics
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Light Has New Capacity For Electronics

Researchers have demonstrated a photo-dielectric effect that is not due to photo-conduction, a finding expected to contribute to the development of photo-capacitors...

Putting a Spin on Logic Gates
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Putting a Spin on Logic Gates

How do you build a logic gate for devices too small for classical physics? A research collaboration in Germany used vibrations in a magnetic material's collective...

Jumping Droplets Extinguish ­npredictable Hotspots in Electronics
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Jumping Droplets Extinguish ­npredictable Hotspots in Electronics

A "jumping droplet" technique developed by Duke University researchers passively cools dynamic hotspots with effective thermal transport in all directions.

Spintronic Technology Advances with Newly Designed Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
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Spintronic Technology Advances with Newly Designed Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

A Japanese team of researchers has succeeded in applying MgGa2O4 as an alternative to more conventional tunnel barrier materials, demonstrating that magnetic tunnel...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...
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