News articles tagged with 'semiconductor' (Page 15)
Ultrafast optical shutter is switched entirely by laser light
— 7 Dec 2007 00:38 | PhysicsIt's a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states…
Researchers advance process to manufacture silicon chips
— 3 Dec 2007 21:34 | PhysicsThe next generation of laptops, desk computers, cell phones and other semiconductor devices may get faster and more cost-effective with research from Clemson University…
NRL generates, modulates, and electrically detects pure spin currents in silicon
— 3 Dec 2007 21:01 | PhysicsScientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have generated, modulated and electrically detected a pure spin current in silicon, the semiconductor used most widely in the electronic…
High-performance transistors produced from Carbon 60
— 27 Nov 2007 07:19 | PhysicsUsing room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known…
NIST demos industrial-grade nanowire device fabrication
— 28 Oct 2007 18:25 | PhysicsIn the growing catalogue of nanoscale technologies, nanowires - tiny rows of conductor or semiconductor atoms - have attracted a great deal of interest for their potential to build…
Novel semiconductor structure bends light wrong way
— 15 Oct 2007 13:18 | PhysicsA Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally…
Quantum device traps, detects and manipulates the spin of single electrons
— 28 Sep 2007 03:37 | PhysicsA novel device, developed by a team led by University at Buffalo engineers, simply and conveniently traps, detects and manipulates the single spin of an electron, overcoming some major…
Physicists discover novel quantum effect
— 22 Sep 2007 13:39 | PhysicsIn a discovery of potentially burning interest to computer and chip manufacturers, physicists at Wurzburg University have demonstrated a previous unknown quantum effect - and this could…
IBM and Imago find a crucial difficulty in semiconductor device scaling
— 7 Sep 2007 14:42 | PhysicsIn 1959, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman presented a talk entitled 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.' Feynman concluded that there was no physical reason why humans couldn't…
Physicists discover super crystals in a semiconductor
— 16 Aug 2007 19:51 | PhysicsUniversity of Arizona physicists have discovered that 'super crystals' - crystals which are hundreds to thousands times larger than conventional crystals - exist in certain organic…