Scientists from Berkeley and TU Munich investigate magnons in a material that becomes helimagnetic below about 30 kelvin: iron silicide doped with cobalt.
Electronics
Researchers use liquid metal to create stretchable wires
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning.
Silicon lasers for the terahertz spectral range
Stimulated emission between impurity levels in silicon is a promising source of terahertz laser radiation.
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
At the recent IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2012), imec addressed key challenges of scaling beyond silicon-channel finFETs.
Nanophotonics system allows optoelectrical single chip integration
IBM announced today a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing.
Creating p-n junctions in graphene films
Researchers create junctions, essential to electronics fabrication, by transferring graphene films onto patterned monolayer substrates.
Nanotechnology Company Liquipel Announces New Technology and Branding Licenses
Electronics coating firm expands business in Turkey, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Point of Light: nanofocusing in plasmonic waveguides
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.
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