Semiconductors

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New Route to Electronics Inside Optical Fibers Penn State plan produces photodetectors in optical fibers
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives
Microbes Munch Chip Waste Taiwanese researchers come up with a bioreactor that consumes semiconductor manufacturing emissions
Graphene: The Ultimate Switch Graphene could replace the transistor with switches that steer electrons just like beams of light
Record-Setting Terahertz Transmitters Relatively cheap chip hits 1.1 THz, could make terahertz scanners and other devices practical
Devices
Wed, January 25, 2012
Article: Record-Setting Terahertz Transmitters
Wed, January 11, 2012
BlogPost: CES 2012: Sony Pulls “Crystal” Display Technology Out Of the Lab
Tue, January 10, 2012
BlogPost: Moore's Law Leads to $1000 Genome Device
Materials
Thu, February 09, 2012
BlogPost: Super Wear-Resistant AFM Tip Pushes the Boundaries of Nanomanufacturing
Fri, February 03, 2012
BlogPost: UK Reveals Plans for Becoming “Graphene Hub”
Thu, February 02, 2012
Article: Microbes Munch Chip Waste
Optoelectronics
Wed, February 08, 2012
Article: New Route to Electronics Inside Optical Fibers
Tue, January 31, 2012
Article: Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs
Wed, January 11, 2012
BlogPost: CES 2012: Sony Pulls “Crystal” Display Technology Out Of the Lab
Nanotechnology
Fri, February 10, 2012
BlogPost: Some Australians Prefer Skin Cancer to Sunscreens with Nanoparticles
Thu, February 09, 2012
BlogPost: Super Wear-Resistant AFM Tip Pushes the Boundaries of Nanomanufacturing
Wed, February 08, 2012
BlogPost: Nanotechnology Used to Create a "Desalination Battery"
Design
Thu, January 12, 2012
BlogPost: The Intel-ARM Core War
Thu, January 12, 2012
BlogPost: Largest Quantum Computer Calculation to Date—But Is It Too Little Too Late?
Fri, December 30, 2011
Article: 3-D Chips Grow Up
Memory
Wed, February 01, 2012
BlogPost: Salmon DNA Embedded with Nanoparticles Leads to a Novel Memory Device
Fri, January 13, 2012
BlogPost: IBM Makes Tiny (Though Impractical) 12-Atom Magnetic Bit
Tue, November 22, 2011
VideoPage: Watch a Memory Bit Switch in Real Time
Processors
Tue, February 07, 2012
BlogPost: Why I'm Wagering $100,000 on Quantum Computing
Thu, January 12, 2012
BlogPost: The Intel-ARM Core War
Fri, December 30, 2011
Article: 3-D Chips Grow Up