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New all-polymer memory devices developed
A research team from KAUST in Saudia Arabia have fabricated all-polymer nonvolatile bistable memory devices with potential for use in flexible and transparent electronics.
IEDM 2012: imec Addresses Key Challenges of Scaling beyond Silicon-Channel finFETs
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Nanophotonics system allows optoelectrical single chip integration
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Creating p-n junctions in graphene films
Researchers create junctions, essential to electronics fabrication, by transferring graphene films onto patterned monolayer substrates.
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Electronics coating firm expands business in Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
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Engineers create a device that can focus light into a point of just a few nanometers, with applications in computing, communications, and imaging.
Bond for Future Ships, iMacs Has ONR Roots
A state-of-the-art welding process refined for use in naval shipbuilding by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has crossed over to the world of computing.
Copper, gold and tin for efficient chips
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Flexible silicon solar-cell fabrics may soon become possible
Researchers make a fiber out of crystalline silicon semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell.
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