Sep. 8, 2016 Electromagnetic radiation is everywhere -- that's been the case since the beginning of the universe. But the proliferation of electronics in recent decades has contributed both to the volume of ...
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Aug. 31, 2016 Being able to determine magnetic properties of materials with sub-nanometer precision would greatly simplify development of magnetic nano-structures for future spintronic devices. In a new article, ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 Antennas often need to trace circles in the sky. For example, radar arrays atop air-traffic control towers rotate to sweep signals in all directions. Now, electrical engineers are working out a new ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 Vast quantities of gold could be salvaged from old mobile phones using a simple chemical method, a study ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work by simply observing them, without being told what to look for, according to ...
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Aug. 29, 2016 A device made of bilayer graphene is one step forward in a new field of physics called ...
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Aug. 25, 2016 A chemical sensing material has been developed whose electrical conductivity dramatically increases when exposed to toxic gases, report ...
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Aug. 25, 2016 A nanoscale wireless communication system uses plasmonic antennas to produce greater control and increased efficiency to an approach eyed for next-generation 'on-chip' communications ...
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Aug. 25, 2016 Computer science researchers have introduced a new radio technology that allows small mobile devices to take advantage of battery power in larger devices nearby for ...
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Aug. 25, 2016 Researchers discovered a procedure to restore defective graphene oxide structures that cause the material to display low carrier mobility. By applying a high-temperature reduction treatment in an ...
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Aug. 24, 2016 A team of researchers with expertise in 3-D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small, 3-D-printed robot ...
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Aug. 23, 2016 Silicon nanoparticles based devices would allow to transmit, reflect, or scatter incident light in a specified direction, depending on its intensity. They could be integrated into microchips that ...
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Aug. 23, 2016 Researchers have created strands of synthetic DNA that, when mixed together in a test tube in the right concentrations, form an analog circuit that can add, subtract and multiply as the molecules ...
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Aug. 23, 2016 Non-toxic, edible batteries could one day power ingestible devices for diagnosing and treating disease. One team reports new progress toward that goal with their batteries made with melanin pigments, ...
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Aug. 23, 2016 A future of soft robots or smart T-shirts may depend on the development of stretchy power sources. But traditional batteries are thick and rigid -- not ideal properties for materials that would be ...
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Aug. 22, 2016 Our research group has discovered a new technique for compressing the computations of encryption and decryption operations known as Galois field arithmetic operations, and has succeeded in developing ...
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Aug. 22, 2016 Researchers have created a new theoretical framework which could help physicists and device engineers design better optoelectronics, leading to less heat generation and power consumption in ...
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Aug. 17, 2016 Attosecond Science is a new exciting frontier in contemporary physics, aimed at time-resolving the motion of electrons in atoms, molecules and solids on their natural timescale. Electronic dynamics ...
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Aug. 16, 2016 Scientists have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical wires that not only conduct electricity, but are thousands of times thinner than a human ...
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Aug. 16, 2016 Researchers have cleared that obstacle by developing a new way to purify carbon nanotubes -- the smaller, nimbler semiconductors that are expected to replace silicon within computer chips and a wide ...
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