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| PLASTIC SHOWS PROMISE FOR SPINTRONICS, MAGNETIC COMPUTER MEMORY |
| Researchers at Ohio State University and their colleagues have expanded the possibilities for a new kind of electronics, known as spintronics. |
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| SCIENTISTS DEVELOP ATOMIC-SCALE MEMORY |
| In 1959, physics icon Richard Feynman, in a characteristic back-of-the-envelope calculation, predicted that all the words written in the history of the world could be contained in a cube of material one two-hundredths of an inch wide - provided those words were written with atoms. |
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| UCLA RESEARCHERS CREATE FAST, INEXPENSIVE ORGANIC MEMORY DEVICE |
| Researchers at the UCLA School of Engineering have created an organic, nonvolatile memory device that is cheaper and faster than those currently in use. |
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| NANOWIRE-BASED ELECTRONICS AND OPTICS COMES ONE STEP CLOSER |
| An entirely new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and electronic devices is one step closer, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley. Their work, and that of a Swedish team, is reported in the February issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. |
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| NANOWIRE-BASED ELECTRONICS AND OPTICS COMES ONE STEP CLOSER |
| An entirely new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and electronic devices is one step closer, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley. Their work, and that of a Swedish team, is reported in the February issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. |
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| A STEP FORWARD IN NANOTECHNOLOGY |
| Nanotechnology is in the news. Forecasters paint a vision of microscopic machines that can fight viruses or alter the functioning of bodily systems, of power generators smaller than a penny, of entire medical laboratories in an area smaller than a credit card. The problem is, there is a huge gap between the devices we can design and those we can implement, given current technology. |
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| PROTEIN-LIKE MOLECULES COULD FORM MEDICAL DEVICES, ELECTRONICS |
| A new kind of artificial protein-like molecule created at Ohio State University could one day lead to new drugs, new medical treatments - and even faster computer chips. |
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| NEW 'ELECTRONIC PAPER' TECHNOLOGY PROMISES MORE COLORFUL, VERSATILE VIDEO DISPLAYS |
| A man in a cafe slips on his glasses and opens his newspaper, but instead of headlines and halftone pictures, he's treated to animations, Web pages and video. As futuristic as it sounds, researchers at the University of Rochester and elsewhere are racing to develop a technology that would not only make flexible, paper-like video displays a reality, but could make them in full color. |
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| COMPUTERS CLOSER TO THE SPEED OF LIGHT |
| Australian scientists have used their expertise in solar cells to develop a more efficient silicon light-emitting diode, providing a new platform for faster computing and data transfer.
The development, reported in 23 August 2001 Nature by Martin A. Green and colleagues at the University of New South Wales, will mean microelectronics can take better advantage of the speed of optical data transfer. |
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| RADIATION-RESISTANT CHIPS FOR STURDIER SATELLITES |
| Space is a tough environment for electronics. A burst of radiation from a solar flare can damage a satellite's delicate circuits and knock years off its working life. Now research by a University of California, Davis, engineering student is pointing the way to more radiation-resistant microchips. |
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| IBM SCIENTISTS OVERCOME SIGNIFICANT ROADBLOCK IN COMPUTER DISPLAY MANUFACTURING PROCESS |
| IBM researchers have discovered a new process for manufacturing computer displays that can vastly improve screen quality and viewing angles while saving manufacturers millions of dollars. The breakthrough holds the first real potential to replace a nearly century-old technique that all manufacturers currently use to build display products. |
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| NEW TECHNOLOGY BASED ON THE DNA MOLECULE ARRANGEMENT PRINCIPLE HELPS TO REPRODUCE MINUTE ELECTRONIC NANO-SCHEMES UNDER A PRESET PROGRAM |
| Robots, capable to self-assembling from units with a size of smaller than that of a bacterium, seem to come from fantastic movies.
Scientists from Pennsylvania State University used DNA to encourage gold wires with a cross-section of 1x10^(-6) mm to occupy certain positions on the surface to form a nano-electric scheme on the boarders. |
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| REPLACEMENT OF FLOPPY DISK DRIVES IS ON HORIZON |
| High-tech specialists mark that the day when 3.5" flexible disk drives (floppy drives) are to be replaced with ZIP-drives is not far away.
The IOMEGA company one day launched ZIP-drive, a 100 MB data storage unit. Since then, the design of the ZIP-drive had been continuously improving, and not only internal and external, but large capacity (up to 250 MB) devices were added to the original design. |
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