News & Press Releases - Future Technologies - 2

At International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2014 nanoelectronics research center imec demonstrated an ultra-low power RFID transponder chip. Operating at sub 1 V voltage and realized in thin-film transistor technology (TFTs) on plastic film, ...

Martha Heil University of Maryland Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a single tiny structure that includes all the components of a battery that they say could bring about the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage ...

Electronic Products First holographic chip that could be implemented in phones When it comes to science fiction, holographic projections are sort of a staple of the genre especially portable holograms that you can project from a teeny tiny little ...

Electronics are getting smaller all the time, but there's a limit to how tiny they can get with today's materials. Takayoshi Sasaki and co-workers at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials ...

Nearly 85 years after pioneering theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicted the possibility of their existence, an international collaboration led by Amherst College Physics Professor David S. Hall '91 and Aalto University (Finland) Academy ...

Tiny clusters of particles zip forward, spin, or circle depending on their shape Scientists studying the behavior of platinum particles immersed in hydrogen peroxide may have discovered a new way to propel microscopic machines. The new mechanism is ...

Nicole Lee Engadget If you thought the Kinect was a brilliant step forward in 3D sensing and you were enthralled by the possibilities of hand gestures with the Leap Motion, then you might be interested in what the iMotion 3D motion controller has ...

Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right ...

Li-Fi, short for Light Fidelity, is a wireless data transfer technology first made popular by Harald Haas in his 2011 TED Talk. Now a Parisian company by the name of Oledcomm has announced that they'll have Li-Fi devices on the market sometime next ...

EPFL scientists have combined two materials with advantageous electronic properties -- graphene and molybdenite -- into a flash memory prototype that is very promising in terms of performance, size and energy consumption. The molybdenite flash ...