 Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 104 vote(s)
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Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 ... | |
 Silent, microchip-sized 'fan' has no moving parts, yet produces enough wind to cool a laptop March 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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Engineers harnessing the same physical property that drives silent household air purifiers have created a miniaturized device that is now ready for testing as a silent, ultra-thin, low-power and low maintenance ... | |
 IBM researchers unveil green optical network technology prototype February 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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IBM researchers today unveiled the fastest and most highly integrated optical data bus ever developed. The prototype technology could bring massive amounts of bandwidth in an energy-efficient way to all kinds ... | |
 IBM Alliances Announce Advancement in High-K/Metal Gate Technology December 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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IBM and its joint development partners -- AMD, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Freescale, Infineon, and Samsung -- announced an innovative approach to speed the implementation of a breakthrough material ... | |
 IBM Extends Moore's Law to the Third Dimension April 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 177 vote(s)
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IBM today announced a breakthrough chip-stacking technology in a manufacturing environment that paves the way for three-dimensional chips that will extend Moore’s Law beyond its expected limits. The technology ... | |
 IBM Reveals Breakthrough eDRAM Memory Technology February 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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In papers presented at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, IBM revealed a first-of-its-kind, on-chip memory technology that features the fastest access times ever recorded in eDRAM (Embedded ... | |
 Flexible electronics advance boosts performance, manufacturing December 13, 2006 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Flexible electronics made with organic, or carbon-based, transistors could enable technologies such as low-cost sensors on product packaging and ''electronic paper'' displays as thin and floppy as a placemat. ... | |
 SSRL Aids Development of Plastic Electronics May 04, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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For close to a decade, researchers have been trying to improve the performance of plastic semiconductors to the level of amorphous silicon—the semiconductor used in low-cost electronics such as photovoltaic ... | |
IBM Develops Computational Scaling Solution for Next Generation '22nm' Semiconductors September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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In response to ever increasing demands for smaller, more powerful and energy-efficient devices for cloud computing and high-performance servers, IBM today announced the semiconductor industry's first computationally based ... | |
 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)
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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 ... | |
Epson Develops New High-Resolution LTPS LCD August 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Epson today announced the development of a 4-inch high-resolution low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT LCD featuring Photo Fine Premia technology, which boasts both a wide viewing angle and a wide color range. The display ... | |
 Sony Develops World's Highest Optical Output 7.2W, 635nm Red Semiconductor Laser Array August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Sony Corporation today announced that it has developed a high-power, short-wavelength red semiconductor laser array diode, ideal for use as a light source in projection devices. | |
 Researchers Create Enhanced Light Sources For Lithography July 09, 2008 | User rating: 1.8 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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A breakthrough discovery at UC San Diego may help aid the semiconductor industry’s quest to squeeze more information on chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices. So far, the semiconductor ... | |
 Toshiba Introduces High Power, High Flux 90 Lumen White LED July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Toshiba today announced TL12W02-D, a new high power, high brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications that can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens (lm) when driven ... | |
Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved ... | |
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