Creating a circuit that repairs itself
When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip – or even the whole device – is often lost. But what if the circuit could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Winners of CNET's Best of CES 2012 awards
At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, CNET announced its "Best of CES 2012" award winners. Here are the top innovations in electronics and gadgetry from the industry. Best of...
View ArticleSony names Kazuo Hirai as President and CEO
Today Sony Corporation announced that it has named Kazuro Hirai as President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Sir Howard Stringer who is to become Chairman of the Board of Directors in June...
View ArticleUA physicists discover the use of pencil lead for electronics
Graphite, more commonly known as pencil lead, could become the next big thing in the quest for smaller and less power-hungry electronics. Graphene -- single sheets of graphite -- is only one atom...
View ArticleHoneycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing
Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater processing capacity...
View ArticleUWM discovers new carbon-based material which advances graphene-based...
Scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have discovered an entirely new carbon-based material that is synthesized from the carbon family of graphene. The discovery,...
View ArticlePowerful nanoscale oscillator
UCLA researchers use a novel application of technology to develop a powerful microwave oscillator that may lead to cheaper and more efficient mobile communications. Typical oscillators function by...
View ArticleSpin city: laser re-writable spintronic circuits
Quantum computing based on electron spin -- aka spintronics -- has long promised to replace conventional electronics. The problem has been that electron spin, which enables electrons to make multiple...
View ArticleMass-producing graphene transistors
Graphene and other carbon allotropes promise dramatic improvements to electronics, but they all suffer from the same problem. These carbon-based structures are fragile and as a result difficult to...
View ArticleFerroelectric Breakthrough
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has made a major breakthrough in understanding the structure of ferroelectric materials. The researchers revealed that...
View ArticleAvoiding charge traps in plastic electronics
Plastic electronics: they hold the promise of cheap mass-produced LEDs and solar cells, but they have a flaw: charge traps. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology recently uncovered new...
View ArticleEmbracing Quantum Discord
Quantum entanglement may be synonymous most quantum-technologies, but research lead by the National University of Singapore (NUS) hopes to change that. Collaborating with the Australian National...
View ArticleLogic gates from undoped nanowires
Overcoming the Schottky barrier, researchers have constructed the first ever logic gates from un-doped silicon nanowires. Silicon nanowires are one of the great hopes for the future of electronics,...
View ArticleGood news everyone! No more leap seconds in 2012
Getting a whole extra second added to your day might sound like a great thing -- okay it doesn’t really sound that great -- but if you're a programmer or computer geek it can be a tremendous pain in...
View ArticleAugmented reality at your finger tips
Ever wanted to take a picture or know more about something but have been too lazy to pull out your smartphone or tablet? Well, the MIT project EyeRing hopes to solve these problems for you by putting...
View ArticleIBM Spintronics Breakthrough
According to Computerworld’s Lucas Mearian IBM researchers will be announcing a major breakthrough for spintronics later this week in the journal Nature. Spintronics are similar to electronics but...
View ArticleLECs to replace OLEDs as future display technology
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are the latest craze in consumer electronics, but thats set to change with new research from Umeå University in Sweden. OLED displays are highly prized because...
View ArticleThe first measurable quantum system
Quantum computers promise almost unimaginable computational speeds, but creating such futuristic computers has proven to be very difficult. “Normally, every contact with the outer world changes...
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