An international team of scientists affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center has coaxed a self-assembling material into forming never-before-seen, three-dimensional nanoscale structures, with ...
Achievement represents a crucial step in the delivery of next-generation non-volatile embedded memories A non-volatile memory technology which is denser, faster and more cost-effective than conventional flash memory technology is closer to ...
First transistor to include planar and vertical thin body structures unveiled at IEDM 2005 Freescale Semiconductor has demonstrated a breakthrough transistor that overcomes many of the design and manufacturing challenges associated with vertical ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon with micron-sized, wave-like geometries that can be used to build high-performance electronic devices on rubber ...
New Material Could Help Chips Run Cooler, Use Less Energy Intel Corporation announced development of a new, ultra-fast, yet very low power prototype transistor using new materials that could form the basis of its microprocessors and other logic ...
At the heart of the promises of nanotechnology - the emerging science of making molecular machines - are carbon nanotubes. These are tiny cylinders with remarkable properties that could improve products ranging from house paint to microchips. Now, ...
A means for controlling single-molecule switches by engineering their design and surrounding environment has been developed by a research team led by scientists at Penn State , Rice University , and the University of Oregon . The research ...
Ohio State University researchers have invented a new organic polymer tunnel diode - an electronic component that could one day lead to plastic computer memory and plastic logic circuits on computer chips. Today, computer chips use mainly inorganic ...
Additional 65nm Process Will Stretch Battery Life of Mobile Devices Intel Corporation is developing an ultra-low power derivative of its high-performance 65 nanometer (nm) logic manufacturing process that will enable production of very low-power ...
Industry-First Advancement Can Improve Performance, Conserve Power in Future Single- and Multi-Core Processors AMD and IBM announced that they have developed a new and unique strained silicon transistor technology aimed at improving processor ...