 Clemson scientists put a (nano) spring in their step August 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Electronic devices get smaller and more complex every year. It turns out that fragility is the price for miniaturization, especially when it comes to small devices, such as cell phones, hitting the floor. ... | |
Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 75 vote(s)
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Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department of ... | |
 Big step in tiny technology August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial step in developing minuscule structures with application potential in sophisticated sensors, catalysis, and nanoelectronics has been developed by Scottish researchers. | |
 Self-assembling polymer arrays improve data storage potential August 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new manufacturing approach holds the potential to overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, paving the way to smaller electronic ... | |
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 ... | |
 Scientists develop the world's thinnest balloon August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in New York are reporting development of the world's thinnest balloon, made of a single layer of graphite just one atom thick. This so-called graphene sealed microchamber is impermeable ... | |
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