 New probe could aid quantum computing September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking. Ever since ... | |
Parallel 'nano-soldering' technique chosen for year's top-50 by Nanotech Briefs September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You should have so much patience to solder nanowires to nanoelectrodes. Talk about fine work. That’s why a new electroplating process that simultaneously joins many silicon nanowires to many prepatterned ... | |
Orienting Flow in Carbon Nanotubes September 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes provide some of the most interesting possibilities for future technology. One of the more intriguing possibilities – with a variety of practical applications – is using carbon nanotubes for ... | |
 Big step in tiny technology August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 45 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. | |
Northeastern University Physicists Develop Nano-Optical Lens August 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using semiconductor nanotechnology, Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair of Physics at Northeastern University, and his team of researchers from the university’s Electronic Materials ... | |
 New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for applications that include biological sensors and more compact, powerful computer ... | |
 Light touch: Controlling the behavior of quantum dots August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaborative center of the University of Maryland and NIST, have reported a new way to fine-tune ... | |
Controlling the size of nanoclusters August 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed ... | |
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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Northwestern chemists take gold, mass-produce Beijing Olympic logo August 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times. All the logos take up only one square centimeter of space. | |
 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. ... | |
 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 ... | |
Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy August 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 77 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 ... | |
Large area transistors get helping hand from quantum effects August 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Researchers from the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan, and the Advanced Technology Institute of the University of Surrey today report that nano-designed transistors for the large area display and sensor application ... | |
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