Items tagged with silicon

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Pink Silicon Is the New Black Thursday, July 9th, 2009 - 10:22:46 - Anuradha Menon A material dubbed black silicon has shown great promise for making cheaper, more sensitive light detectors and imaging devices, while potentially... read more

Spooky Computers Closer to Reality Monday, June 29th, 2009 - 09:57:02 - Ehud Rattner The computers of tomorrow could be quantum not classical, using the quantum world's strange properties to vastly increase memory and speed up... read more

Roll-Up Solar Panels Thursday, June 4th, 2009 - 10:12:02 - Anuradha Menon Xunlight, a startup in Toledo, Ohio, has developed a way to make large, flexible solar panels. It has developed a roll-to-roll manufacturing... read more

New Memory Material Holds Data for 1Bn Years Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 - 12:04:06 - Ehud Rattner Scientists are reporting an advance toward the development of a new computer memory device that can store thousands of times more data than... read more

Silicon Found to Emit Green Light Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 18:21:52 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the University of St Andrews have made a surprise discovery that the material at the heart of the microelectronics industry can emit... read more

The First Flexible Polymer Circuits Friday, January 23rd, 2009 - 18:21:44 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at Polyera Corp. say they’ve invented a new polymer that closes an important gap in the field of printing electronics on plastic. The... read more

Nano 'Tractor Beam' Traps DNA Thursday, January 1st, 2009 - 10:36:36 - Anuradha Menon Using a beam of light shunted through a tiny silicon channel, researchers have created a nanoscale trap that can stop free floating DNA molecules and... read more

Boosting the Power of Solar Cells Friday, November 28th, 2008 - 14:21:02 - Anuradha Menon New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team... read more

Un-Masking a Faster Solution For Chip-Making Thursday, November 27th, 2008 - 10:10:15 - Anuradha Menon European researchers have developed a promising solution to 'mask-less' semiconductor lithography and generated intense interest among major industry... read more

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