The night time twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify an LED light bulb so that it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France and Canada carried out extensive ...
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Photuris firefly scales Researchers from Belgium, France and Canada have drawn inspiration from nature by mimicking the design of the bioluminescent firefly, which they say can help maximise the glow on LEDs by up to 55 per cent. A ...
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A device which allows an optical detector to pick up on the rotation of a twisted light wave, called an optical vortex or vortex beam, has been developed by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). ...
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The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original. Researchers from Belgium, France, and Canada studied the internal ...
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Globalfoundries is to build an R&D facility at its Fab 8 campus in Saratoga County,N.Y which it calls its Technology Development Center(TDC). The TDC will cost nearly$2bn,increasing the total capital investment for the Fab 8 campus to ...
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UK-based Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) reports that its first workshop held at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), Cambridge, MA in December was well attended. The workshop addressed the latest research and ...
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Steve Jobs was right about apps in more ways than perhaps he ever knew. The concept of using apps to make software easily available and affordable to large numbers is arriving in high-performance computing (HPC). There is a new effort to ...
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In a paper set to be published this week in the scientific journal Nature, IBM researchers are claiming a huge breakthrough in spintronics, a technology that could significantly boost capacity and lower power use of memory and storage ...
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CIC biomaGUNE is a non-profit research organisation created in 2006 to promote scientific research and technological innovation at the highest levels in the Basque Country. Dr Ralf Richter leads Laboratory 3 in the Biosurfaces Research Unit ...
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Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for precise measurement and control, has introduced updated specifications for its Model CRX-VF cryogen-free micro-manipulated probe ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are collaborating in a worldwide research effort to assess any potential impacts of nanomaterials on people's health and the environment. ...
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UK-based etch and deposition system maker Oxford Instruments has been chosen by Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology to supply a FlexAL ALD (atomic layer deposition) system for installation in its cleanroom. FlexAL systems provide a ...
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Carbon nanotubes will allow creation of nanoscale transistor devices IBM researchers have demostrated a new way of carbon nanotechnology which will help in commercial fabrication of smaller, faster and more powerful computer chips ...
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Pacific Biosciences of California has signed multi-year research collaboration with imec to develop advanced microchips for highly multiplexed single molecule genetic analysis. The research and development project will leverage Pacific ...
Scientists at IBM have showcased computer chips featuring carbon nanotube technology,and apparently built with standard manufacturing techniques. This new approach,hopes IBM,will open up the way for commercial mass-production of carbon ...
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