MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor industry and quantum computing.
Oct 16th, 2009
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UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of 'persistent current', a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.
Oct 16th, 2009
Read moreA team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously.
Oct 16th, 2009
Read moreA group of scientists could show that the optical near-field can be used as actuator and sensitive probe for nanomechanical oscillators.
Oct 16th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube.
Oct 15th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today.
Oct 15th, 2009
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Auf der Messe Parts2Clean in Stuttgart zeigen Fraunhofer-Wissenschaftler vom 20. bis 22. Oktober 2009 (Halle 1/Stand F 610/G 709), wie mithilfe einer unsichtbaren Nanoschicht Fingerabdruecke auf Metall- oder Kunststoffoberflaechen unsichtbar werden.
Oct 15th, 2009
Read moreCompared to the present standard, with the new system more than the half of the energy can be saved for the OLED-display-operation.
Oct 15th, 2009
Read moreVeterinary scientists propose that by harnessing the system that reads the biological 'barcodes' of infectious microbes such as food poisoning bacteria, flu viruses and protozoa that cause malaria, one vaccine could be made to prevent a particular disease in all mammals.
Oct 15th, 2009
Read moreA leading physicist from The University of Manchster has been awarded a Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professorship in celebration of the Society's 350th anniversary.
Oct 15th, 2009
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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has awarded a $1.1 million grant to researchers in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz to support their work on nanopore technology for analyzing DNA.
Oct 15th, 2009
Read moreA team of four chemists at the University of Rochester have begun work on a new kind of system to derive usable hydrogen fuel from water using only sunlight.
Oct 15th, 2009
Read moreThe new findings, previously considered possible by physicists but only now being seen in the laboratory, show that electrons in graphene can interact strongly with each other.
Oct 14th, 2009
Read moreModern tissue engineering developed at the University of Michigan could improve the function of prosthetic hands and possibly restore the sense of touch for injured patients.
Oct 14th, 2009
Read moreThe Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation are funding research that may result in a military turbine aircraft that for the first time ever will produce its own electricity from exhaust heat generated from thermo electricity.
Oct 14th, 2009
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