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Liquid Crystals Light Way to Better Data Storage
As cell phones and computers continue to shrink, many companies are seeking better ways to store hundreds of gigabytes of data in small, low-power devices. A...
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Flexible Touch Screen Made With Printed Graphene
Researchers at Samsung and Sungkyunkwan University have developed a graphene-based flexible touch screen that eventually could lead to transparent electronics.
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Diamond-Like Material Shows Superhard, Superconducting Potential
BC5, a diamond-like material with an extremely high boron content, offers exceptional hardness and resistance to fracture, but unlike diamond, it is a superconductor...
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Group Demonstrates Self-Healing For Electronics
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have applied the concept of self-healing materials to small-scale electronics.
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Researchers Develop Ultra-Simple Method for Creating Nanoscale Gold Coatings
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed an ultra-simple method for making layers of gold that measure only billionths of a meter thick,...
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How the Apple Ii Taught Programmers to Economize
Imagine trying to program a virtual machine--a software instance that mimics all the characteristics of a physical computer--on a device with 2 kilobytes of RAM...
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Researchers Move Organic Nanoelectronics a Step Closer
An international team of researchers has overcome a key stumbling block by using metal crystal to order the molecules in the PEDOT, the single most industrially...
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Nanospheres Stretch Limits of Hard Disk Storage
A new magnetic recording medium made up of tiny nanospheres has been devised by European researchers. The technology may lead to hard disks able to store more than...
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Imec Ramps Resistive Ram Research
Increasingly diverse applications that influence specifications and device requirements will prevent resistive RAMs from leading to a single "universal" memory,...
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Nanowires Could Lead to Foldable Tablets, Say Researchers
Duke University scientists have developed a method to make large quantities of copper nanowires, which could be used to create bendable, foldable tablet computers...
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Stretching Single Molecules Allows Precision Studies of Interacting Electrons
With controlled stretching of molecules, Cornell researchers have demonstrated that single-molecule devices can serve as powerful new tools for fundamental science...
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Scientists Strive to Replace Silicon with Graphene on Nanocircuitry
Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene.
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Walls Falling Faster for Solid-State Memory
Researchers have found that flaws in the structure of magnetic nanoscale wires play an important role in determining the operating speed of novel devices using...
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'Dark Pulse Laser' Produces Bursts of . . . Almost Nothing
In an advance that sounds almost Zen, researchers at NIST and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, have demonstrated a new...
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Aiming to Boost Performance, Researchers Capture Images of Sub-Nano Pore Structures
Scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at sub-nanometer scale for the first time. Understanding these structures could substantially enhance...
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Mobile Chips Threaten High-Performance Manufacturers
At the end of 2009, Intel was shipping about 80 percent of all x86 processors--the type of chip that powers, for example, Windows-based personal computers. AMD...
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Invisibility Cloaks and How to se Them
The "invisibility cloaks" being made in labs today can hide objects when viewed from a wide range of directions and in visible light--both considered implausible...
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Hp Researcher Predicts Memory-Centric Processors
HP researchers are studying ways to make memristor processors the centerpiece of future server designs. "Re-thinking the balance of computer, storage, and communications...
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Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised
University of California, Merced researchers have created a part-human, part-machine device that features a nano-sized transistor embedded in a cell-like membrane...
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