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Advance Marks Progress Toward Quantum Computer Made with Artificial Atoms

Two superconducting devices have been coaxed into a special, interdependent state that mimics the unusual interactions sometimes seen in pairs of atoms, according to a team of physicists at the National Institute of Stan...

28 Feb 2005

NIST Unveils Atom-based Standards For Measuring Chip Features Under 50 Nanometers

Device features on computer chips as small as 40 nanometers (nm) wide—less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair—can now be measured reliably thanks to new test structures developed by a team of physi...

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 28 Feb 2005

New LED Could Eliminate Electrical Circuit Bottlenecks

Applied physicists at the California Institute of Technology have invented a light-emitting transistor that could potentially bypass a major bottleneck that slows down electronic circuitry. The new device could pave the ...

25 Feb 2005

Hydrogen Energy Project Achieves Breakthrough

A new hydrogen storage technology being commercialised by The University of Queensland spin-off company, Hydrexia Pty Ltd, could propel hydrogen gas into the mass market as an alternative green fuel. Hydrexia wa...

23 Feb 2005

New Viscometer Accessory Adds to Malvern Zetasizer Nano Capabilities

Malvern has added the SV-10 Vibro viscometer to its range of material characterization instruments for use with its Zetasizer Nano particle characterization systems. The SV-10 is exceptionally easy to use and clean, is r...

23 Feb 2005

Toshiba and SanDisk Complete Construction of 300mm Wafer Fab and NAND Flash Memory Facility

Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk Corporation today marked the completion of an advanced wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations with a traditional ceremony and reception. The new fab is expected to ...

22 Feb 2005

Competition to Aid Innovative Nanotechnology Startups

Nanochallenge is an international business plan competition organised by Veneto Nanotech. The competition aims at uncovering breakthrough nanotechnology applications and attracting the best entrepreneurial talents, i...

17 Feb 2005

World Leading Expert on Liquid Crystals Moves Team to University of York

A team of world-leading researchers headed by Professor John Goodby, an authority on liquid crystals, has moved to the University of York's Department of Chemistry. Professor Goodby and his research team moved to...

17 Feb 2005

3M Introduces Thinner Embedded Capacitance Material for High-Performance Circuit Boards

3M announced today that it has developed an improved embedded capacitance material that has a dielectric thickness of 8 microns and a capacitance density over 11 nanofarads per square inch, which makes it among the thinn...

16 Feb 2005

High Purity BASF Chemicals Help Microchip Manufacturers

Modern computers have little room to spare, with as many as a billion transistors per square centimeter jostling for position on their processors and memory chips. Imagine the entire population of India holidaying in W...

11 Feb 2005

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