 New nano technique significantly boosts boiling efficiency June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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Whoever penned the old adage "a watched pot never boils" surely never tried to heat up water in a pot lined with copper nanorods. | |
 Researchers report finer lines for microchips: Advance could lead to next-generation computer chips, solar cells July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 47 vote(s)
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MIT researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger ... | |
 Nanodisk Codes December 27, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Researchers at Northwestern University have devised a way to use billionth-of-a-meter-sized disks to create codes that could be used to encrypt information, serve as biological labels, and even tag and track ... | |
 Scientists Create Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna October 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine. Called a quantum ... | |
Small graphene wires may be poor conductors February 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Ohio University physicists researching electron properties in graphene ribbons have found that narrow wires made of this material may not be good conductors. | |
Magnetic atoms of gold, silver and copper have been obtained February 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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An international team led by Physics and Chemistry teams from the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and directed by Professor Jose Javier Saiz Garitaonandia, has achieved, ... | |
 'Nanoglassblowing' Seen as Boon to Study of Individual Molecules June 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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While the results may not rival the artistry of glassblowers in Europe and Latin America, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell University have found beauty in a new ... | |
 Ultrafast look into atoms and molecules June 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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New record in ultrafast metrology: Physicists at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich are the first to produce light pulses lasting only 80 attoseconds.
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 Nano-sized electronic circuit promises bright view of early universe July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted ... | |
 Study reveals principles behind stability and electronic properties of gold nanoclusters July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties ... | |
 'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including ... | |
Researchers Build World's Smallest SRAM Memory Cell August 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM and its development partners -- AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) -- today announced the first working static random access memory ... | |
 Nanowire technology could make LCDs brighter, thinner, and cheaper October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As nanoimprinting technology advances, scientists have shown that using nano-sized polarizers could significantly enhance the contrast ratio in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). For consumers, ... | |
Nanodevices could use quantized current to operate future electronics November 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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For the past several decades, virtually all electronics devices have been based on the CMOS logic system, which uses semiconductors and transistors to form digital circuits. However, researchers today are investigating the ... | |
A Giant Step toward Infinitesimal Machinery November 06, 2007 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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What are the ultimate limits to miniaturization? How small can machinery--with internal workings that move, turn, and vibrate--be produced? What is the smallest scale on which computers can be built? | |
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