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A Shortcut to Designer Nanostructures

Thursday, January 27th, 2011 - 12:04:56 - Anuradha Menon

A new nanolithography method could bring down the costs of making experimental computer chips for electronics research and arrays of biomolecules for...

Oxford Scientists Edge Toward Quantum PC

Monday, January 24th, 2011 - 12:52:34 - Anuradha Menon

Oxford University scientists have created silicon with 10 billion bits of quantum entanglement for the first time. The team says this breaks new...

Electricity and Light in One Chip

Sunday, December 5th, 2010 - 09:08:26 - Anuradha Menon

Today's computer chips are chunks of silicon that use electrical pulses to crunch data. But IBM researchers are now making chips for tomorrow: chunks...

Silicon's Long Good-bye

Sunday, November 21st, 2010 - 12:17:23 - Anuradha Menon

Sometime in the coming decades, chipmakers will no longer be able to make silicon chips faster by packing smaller transistors onto a chip. That's...

Epic Smackdown Looms in Google vs. Oracle

Sunday, August 15th, 2010 - 18:19:38 - Ehud Rattner

Stuck between maintaining an unsettling status quo or causing a damaging but potentially lucrative ruckus, Oracle is going for the ruckus. The...

Silicon Can Be Made to Melt in Reverse

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 - 15:53:53 - Ehud Rattner

Like an ice cube on a warm day, most materials melt - that is, change from a solid to a liquid state -- s they get warmer. But a few oddball...

'Quantum Computer' a Stage Closer
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
An international team of researchers accomplished the creation of a cheap, practical implementation from a complex quantum...

Silicon Chip Speed Record Broken

Friday, July 16th, 2010 - 14:03:55 - Anuradha Menon

A "RACETRACK" capable of shuttling electrons around at high speed has set a new record for silicon chips, the cornerstone of computing. Electrical...

Silicon Breakthrough Quantum Computer
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
An international team of researchers from the University of Surrey, UCL, Heriot-Watt University and the FOM Institute for...

Improving Lithium Ion Battery Life
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California are developing new carbon-silicon nanowire electrodes that...

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