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Slicing solar power costs: New method cuts waste in making most efficient solar cells

September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s) | User comments: 2

University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost ...


Hitachi Unveils Digital Signatures on Stand-Alone Memory Chips

September 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Hitachi announced today the development of a mechanism for attesting the authenticity of memory chips using highly secure digital signatures in a worldwide breakthrough. Since the mechanism requires neither a CPU nor a computational ...