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Work Demonstrates Future Electronic Devices can be Quickly Simulated on Advanced Computers

A simulation of electrical current moving through a futuristic electronic transistor has been modeled atom-by-atom in less than 15 minutes by Purdue University researchers.

17 Jun 2009

Major Step Towards Unique and Highly Useful 21st Century Technology

It was an idea born out of curiosity in the physics lab, but now a new type of 'laser' for generating ultra-high frequency sound waves instead of light has taken a major step towards becoming a unique and highly ...

17 Jun 2009

Taking Stretchable Electronics a Step Forward

EU-funded researchers in France and the US studying stickers peeling from windows have found a new way to control the fabrication of stretchable electronics. The results, published in the Proceedings of the National Acad...

17 Jun 2009

Researchers Developed Novel Concept Devices using Ferromagnetic Semiconductors

Spintronic devices have created enormous advances in microelectronics, leading to faster, instant-on start times and orders-of-magnitude increases in data storage capacity. Spintronics is short for spin transport electro...

17 Jun 2009

Report Forecasts the Size of MEMS Market in Mobile Phones

Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of "Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Market in Mobile Phones 2008-2012 " report to its offerings.

From Research and Markets 16 Jun 2009

Microscopic Polymer Beads that Change Color Instantly and Reversibly

A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly when external magnetic fields acting upon the microspheres change orientation.

16 Jun 2009

Nano Robots Ready to Compete in RoboCup Games

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be serving up "soccer under glass"-the glass of a microscope lens-when nanosoccer makes its second appearance at the RoboCup games at the international competition in Graz, Austria, from June 29 to July 5, 2009.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 16 Jun 2009

MEMtronics Receives DARPA Development Contract

MEMtronics Corporation, privately-held company focused on the commercialization of RF micromachined switch technology, today announced it has received a development contract from the Defense Advance Research Projects Age...

From MEMtronics Corporation 16 Jun 2009

Engineers Describe New Technique to Continue Scaling in HKMG Transistors

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the world's first truly global leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company, today described an innovative technology that could overcome one of the key hurdles to advancing high-k metal gate (HK...

From GlobalFoundries 16 Jun 2009

Winner of the First Photonics21 Student Innovation Award Announced

PhD Student Yannick Chassagneux is the winner of the first Photonics21 Student Innovation Award. Jan Ostoja-Ostaszewski, Member of the EU-Directorate Information Society and Media awarded Chassagneux the prize at the opening ceremony of the World of Photonics Congress in Munich on the 15 th June 2009.

15 Jun 2009