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NIST demonstrates fatigue effects in silicon
— 4 Dec 2007 02:25 | PhysicsResearchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a mechanical fatigue process that eventually leads to cracks and breakdown in bulk silicon…
High Q nanowires may be practical oscillators
— 2 Dec 2007 17:51 | PhysicsNanowires grown at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have a mechanical 'quality factor' at least 10 times higher than reported values for other nanoscale devices…
Micro microwave does pinpoint cooking for miniaturised labs
— 9 Nov 2007 11:59 | PhysicsResearchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and George Mason University have demonstrated what is probably the world's smallest microwave oven, a tiny mechanism…
New mini-sensor may have biomedical and security applications
— 2 Nov 2007 11:10 | PhysicsA tiny sensor that can detect magnetic field changes as small as 70 femtoteslas - equivalent to the brain waves of a person daydreaming - has been demonstrated at the National Institute…
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…
Measurements from the edge: magnetic properties of thin films
— 29 Sep 2007 00:01 | PhysicsMaterials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), together with colleagues from IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have pushed the…
Dead time limits quantum cryptography speeds
— 29 Sep 2007 00:01 | PhysicsQuantum cryptography is potentially the most secure method of sending encrypted information, but does it have a speed limit? According to a new paper by researchers at the National…
Scientists find flaw in model describing DNA elasticity
— 17 Sep 2007 18:48 | BiologyDNA, the biomolecule that provides the blueprint for life, has a lesser-known identity as a stretchy polymer. JILA scientists have found a flaw in the most common model for DNA elasticity,…
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