News articles tagged with 'gallium'
JQI physicists demonstrate coveted 'spin-orbit coupling' in atomic gases
— 3 Mar 2011 14:17 | PhysicsPhysicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the…
Rice physicists discover ultrasensitive microwave detector
— 9 Dec 2010 17:06 | PhysicsPhysicists from Rice University and Princeton University have discovered how to use one of the information technology industry's mainstay materials - gallium arsenide semiconductors…
New ultra-clean nanowires have great potential
— 11 Nov 2010 11:53 | TechnologyNew ultra-clean nanowires produced at the Nano-Science Centre, University of Copenhagen will have a central role in the development of new high-efficiency solar cells and electronics…
New solar energy conversion process could revamp solar power production
— 3 Aug 2010 14:06 | TechnologyStanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as…
Advance made toward communication, computing at 'terahertz' speeds
— 20 Jul 2010 12:29 | TechnologyPhysicists in the United States and Germany have discovered a way to use a gallium arsenide nanodevice as a signal processor at 'terahertz' speeds, the first time it's been used for…
Semiconductor manufacturing technique holds promise for solar energy
— 20 May 2010 15:36 | TechnologyThanks to a new semiconductor manufacturing method pioneered at the University of Illinois, the future of solar energy just got brighter. Although silicon is the industry standard semiconductor…
Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other
— 16 Sep 2009 14:31 | TechnologyIt is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both eccentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and…
Purer water made possible by Sandia advance
— 22 Jul 2009 10:09 | TechnologyBy substituting a single atom in a molecule widely used to purify water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a far more effective decontaminant with a shelf life…
Self-assembled nanowires could make chips smaller and faster
— 21 Apr 2009 12:46 | TechnologyResearchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels…
New radiation-free targeted therapy detects and eliminates breast cancer tumours in mice
— 31 Mar 2009 14:39 | HealthCombining a compound known as a gallium corrole with a protein carrier results in a targeted cancer therapy that is able to detect and eliminate tumours in mice with seemingly fewer…