![]() Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind' 10 hours ago | User rating: 5 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind. | |
![]() Researchers report finer lines for microchips: Advance could lead to next-generation computer chips, solar cells 10 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 18 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 ... | |
![]() New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storage July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have created a type of nanowire-based information storage device that is capable of storing three bit values rather than the usual two—that is, "0," "1," and ... | |
Engineers show nanotube circuits can be made en masse July 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Most innovations don't go far unless there is a way to turn them into products that are manufacturable on a mass scale. That's why new research on carbon nanotubes, presented June 19 by a group of Stanford electrical engineers, ... | |
![]() Physicists Store Images in Vapor June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 89 vote(s)
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Books are written on solid pieces of paper for an obvious reason: the atoms in a solid don’t move around much, keeping the words and pictures in place for centuries. Trying to store letters and images in a ... | |
![]() Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be ... | |
![]() New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsár Jankó provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics. | |
![]() A look into the nanoscale June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have captured time-series snapshots of a solid as it evolves on the ultra-fast timescale.
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![]() Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches June 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Our ability to see is based on molecules in the eye that flip from one conformation to another when exposed to visible light. Now, a new technique for attaching light-sensitive organic molecules to metal ... | |
![]() Carbon Nanotubes as a Single-Photon Source June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Carbon nanotubes, as true multi-purpose materials, have potential applications in everything from electrical circuits and drug delivery to golf clubs and space elevators. Recently, physicists have investigated ... | |
![]() Ultrafast look into atoms and molecules June 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 27 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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![]() New nano technique significantly boosts boiling efficiency June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 33 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. | |
![]() Physicists Produce Quantum-Entangled Images June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) have produced “quantum images,” ... | |
![]() Trap and zap: Harnessing the power of light to pattern surfaces on the nanoscale June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Princeton engineers have invented an affordable technique that uses lasers and plastic beads to create the ultrasmall features that are needed for new generations of microchips. | |
‘Electron Trapping’ May Impact Future Microelectronics Measurements June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Using an ultra-fast method of measuring how a transistor switches from the “off” to the “on” state, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently reported that they have uncovered an unusual ... | |
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