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New Optical Technologies Set to Revolutionize IT and Telecommunications Industries

Conventional electronics technologies are fast approaching their physical limits at a time when the demand for higher-quality images, faster communications and more compact electronics continues to build. Light, rath...

29 Sep 2010

Crystal Engineering: Composition of Functions

The electronic bandgap is an intrinsic property of semiconductors that to a large extent determines their optical properties, such as their emission color. Having the ability to adjust the bandgap can be extremely useful...

29 Sep 2010

New Technique Allows 3-D Visualization Of Quantum Property

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new technique that maps the magnetic vector potential — one of the most important electromagnetic quantities an...

From Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials 28 Sep 2010

Nanoscale-Thin Solar Cells Can Absorb Sunlight More Efficiently

In the smooth, white, bunny-suited clean-room world of silicon wafers and solar cells, it turns out that a little roughness may go a long way, perhaps all the way to making solar power an affordable energy source, say Stanford engineers.

28 Sep 2010

New Nanoneedle Releases Quantum Dots into Cell’s Nucleus

Getting an inside look at the center of a cell can be as easy as a needle prick, thanks to University of Illinois researchers who have developed a tiny needle to deliver a shot right to a cell's nucleus.

28 Sep 2010

New Single Electron Reader May Help Develop Quantum Computer

A team led by engineers and physicists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon: a "single elect...

28 Sep 2010

Wafer Foundry Industry Witnesses Prosperous Development in 2010

ResearchInChina, the vertical portal for Chinese business intelligence, announces the release of a new report - Global and China Wafer Foundry Industry Report 2010. The year of 2010 has been the best year for wafer fo...

28 Sep 2010

Scientists Develop New Technique to Isolate and Capture Fast-Moving Neutral Atom

In a major physics breakthrough, University of Otago scientists in New Zealand have developed a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving neutral atom -- and have also seen and photographed this atom for the first time.

27 Sep 2010

Rice Researchers Develop New Nano Antenna that Captures Light

Everybody who's ever used a TV, radio or cell phone knows what an antenna does: It captures the aerial signals that make those devices practical. A lab at Rice University has built an antenna that captures light i...

27 Sep 2010

Caliopa to Develop Optical Transceivers for Data and Telecommunications Markets

Silicon photonics allows for small, highly integrated & low power optical transceivers for data and telecommunication. Ghent University (UGent) and imec today announced the creation of Caliopa, a spin-off from the...

27 Sep 2010