News articles tagged with 'semiconductor' (Page 2)
Researchers aim to harvest solar energy from pavement to melt ice, power streetlights
— 10 Nov 2010 15:34 | TechnologyThe heat radiating off roadways has long been a factor in explaining why city temperatures are often considerably warmer than nearby suburban or rural areas. Now a team of engineering…
Princeton-led team discovers 'exotic' superconductor with metallic surface
— 3 Nov 2010 11:47 | PhysicsA new material with a split personality - part superconductor, part metal - has been observed by a Princeton University-led research team. The discovery may have implications for the…
Water could hold answer to graphene nanoelectronics
— 27 Oct 2010 11:14 | TechnologyResearchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for using water to tune the band gap of the nanomaterial graphene, opening the door to new graphene-based transistors…
Electron billiards in nanoscale circuits
— 23 Oct 2010 17:36 | TechnologyAt the heart of the method is a so-called quantum point contact (QPC). This is a narrow conductive channel in a semiconductor circuit. The scientists created a 70-nanometre narrow channel,…
New equation could advance research in solar cell materials
— 22 Oct 2010 19:58 | TechnologyA groundbreaking new equation developed in part by researchers at the University of Michigan could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic…
Rutgers discovery paves way for development of efficient, inexpensive plastic solar cells
— 11 Oct 2010 10:39 | TechnologyPhysicists at Rutgers University have discovered new properties in a material that could result in efficient and inexpensive plastic solar cells for pollution-free electricity production…
New graphene fabrication method uses silicon carbide templates to create desired growth
— 6 Oct 2010 06:17 | TechnologyResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new 'templated growth' technique for fabricating nanometre-scale graphene devices. The method addresses what had…
Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could provide mega-sized data storage
— 18 Sep 2010 08:46 | TechnologyThe ability of phase-change materials to readily and swiftly transition between different phases has made them valuable as a low-power source of non-volatile or 'flash' memory and data…
Engineers make artificial skin out of nanowires
— 13 Sep 2010 10:46 | TechnologyEngineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that could one day give new meaning to the…
Researchers create new class of piezoelectric logic devices using zinc oxide nanowires
— 3 Sep 2010 13:07 | TechnologyResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application…