News articles tagged with 'silicon'
Biocompatible graphene transistor array reads cellular signals
— 2 Dec 2011 10:47 | TechnologyResearchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a graphene-based transistor array that is compatible with living biological cells and capable of recording the electrical signals…
Engineers create vibrant colours in vertical silicon nanowires
— 4 Apr 2011 18:36 | TechnologyEngineers may soon be singing, 'I'm going to wash that grey right out of my nanowires,' thanks to a colourful discovery by a team of researchers from Harvard University and Zena Technologies.…
Self-cooling observed in graphene electronics
— 4 Apr 2011 17:49 | TechnologyWith the first observation of thermoelectric effects at graphene contacts, University of Illinois researchers found that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces…
'Spincasting' holds promise for creation of nanoparticle thin films
— 30 Mar 2011 17:34 | TechnologyResearchers from North Carolina State University have investigated the viability of a technique called 'spincasting' for creating thin films of nanoparticles on an underlying substrate…
Probing atomic chicken wire
— 5 Mar 2011 13:57 | TechnologyGraphene - a sheet of carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal, chicken wire structure - holds great promise for microelectronics. Only one atom thick and highly conductive, graphene may…
Engineers grow nanolasers on silicon, pave way for on-chip photonics
— 7 Feb 2011 15:13 | TechnologyEngineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface, an achievement that could lead to a new class of faster, more…
New transistors: An alternative to silicon and better than graphene
— 30 Jan 2011 19:04 | TechnologySmaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. In an article appearing online January 30 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, EPFL's Laboratory…
Making a point
— 27 Jan 2011 18:59 | TechnologyNorthwestern University researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly prototyping nanoscale devices and structures that is so inexpensive the 'print head' can be thrown away…
U of I physicists observe exotic state in an unconventional superconductor
— 14 Jan 2011 16:44 | PhysicsA new fractional vortex state observed in an unconventional superconductor may offer the first glimpse of an exotic state of matter predicted theoretically for more than 30 years. In…
Ultrathin alternative to silicon for future electronics
— 23 Nov 2010 17:35 | TechnologyThere's good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and…