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Berkeley Lab-LED Team Fabricates Transistor with Record 1nm-Long Gate
Oct 12, 2016A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a gate length (the defining dimension of a transistor) just 1nm long, ...
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Promising News From Front on Efforts to Produce Fuels Through Artificial Photosynthesis
Mar 11, 2014There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study by Berkeley Lab researchers at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) shows that nearly 90-percent of the ...
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Highly Sensitive Tactile Sensors Is Developed by Researchers
Jan 22, 2014From the world of nanotechnology we've gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes. Now we're on the verge of electronic whiskers. Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...
Tags: Sensors, nanotechnology, Electrical, Electronics
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Researchers Developed a "Process Friendly" Technique
Jan 22, 2014"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Scientists Have Discovered a 3-D Material That Behaves Like 2-D Graphene
Jan 17, 2014Graphene—the thinnest and strongest known material in the universe and a formidable conductor of electricity and heat – gets many of its amazing properties from the fact that it occupies only two dimensions: It has length and ...
Tags: 2-D Graphene, Graphene, Chemicals
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A Research Team Has Produced One of 3-D Topological Dirac Semimetals
Jan 17, 2014While many believe that the key to producing the next generation of chips lies in developing better manufacturing techniques for nanomaterials rather than just creating new nanomaterials, there are others who simply can't resist the ...
Tags: mimics graphene, Construction, Chemicals
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The Discovery of What Is Essentially a 3D Version of Graphene
Jan 16, 2014The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon - promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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"The Interface Is The Device," Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Famously Observed
Jan 15, 2014"The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layers of different materials meet. In today's burgeoning world of nanotechnology, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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An Exotic Material for Making Thin, Flexible Light-Based Electronics
Jan 13, 2014Scientists from SLAC, Stanford and Berkeley Lab grew sheets of an exotic material in a single atomic layer and measured its electronic structure for the first time. They discovered it's a natural fit for making thin, flexible light-based ...
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BOSS Has Measured The Scale of The Universe to an Accuracy of One Percent
Jan 9, 2014Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that BOSS has measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent. This and future measures at this precision are the key to determining the ...
Tags: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, scale of the universe
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Metabolism Was Lost in The Shadows of Cancer Research for Decades
Dec 18, 2013Metabolism was lost in the shadows of cancer research for decades but has recently been reclaiming some of the spotlight. Now, Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist with Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division and a leading authority on ...
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Cook with Natural Gas Without a Hood May Be Exposed to High Levels of Air Pollution
Nov 12, 2013About two-thirds of Southern California households that cook with natural gas without a hood may be exposed to high levels of air pollution, researchers say. Brett Singer and colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...
Tags: cook, natural gas, hood, air pollution
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Smart Glass Coating Can Be Controlled to Block Visible Light,Heat-Producing NIR Light
Aug 23, 2013Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have produced a "smart" glass coating that can be selectively controlled to block visible light, heat-producing near-infrared (NIR) light, or both, by applying a small electrical ...
Tags: Smart Glass, Construction, Glass
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Scientists Developed a New Material to Make The Smart Windows More Intelligent
Aug 21, 2013Researchers at the Berkeley National Laboratory of the Department of the U.S. Department of Energy (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new material that will make the smart windows more intelligent. This material, which is a thin layer of ...
Tags: smart windows, Construction, glass
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America's Top Tech Companies Are Going Green in a Big Way
Mar 6, 2013Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C., data center. And Google has placed data ...
Tags: Tech Companies, Microsoft, data center