In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
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Graphene—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
NICHICON CORPORATION is aiming for net sales of 200 billion yen in fiscal 2019: 100 billion yen in capacitors and 100 billion yen in NECST (Nichicon Energy Control System Technology) circuit products. To this end, on November 21, 2013, we ...
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While 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 ...
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Admittedly, when I saw that Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas president Ed Smith would give an “Unplugged” presentation at last fall’s Electronic Components Industry Association Executive Conference, I smiled thinking ...
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Vishay Sprague TM3 devices are optimized for input capacitor filters on DC / DC converters, hot plugging surges on battery chargers, low-drop-out devices, and capacitor chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. ...
Rice University scientists have found they can control the bonds between atoms in a molecule. The molecule in question is carbon-60, also known as the buckminsterfullerene and the buckyball, discovered at Rice in 1985. The scientists led ...
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The 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 ...
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Scientists and engineers in Europe are embarking on a quest to see if they can change the way young people at risk for becoming obese eat. Key to this will be developing unobtrusive technology that monitors how quickly or slowly a person is ...
Tags: young people health, obese eat, eating disorders, healthier pace
"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, ...
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Solar energy has long been used as a clean alternative to fossil fuels such as coal and oil, but it could only be harnessed during the day when the sun's rays were strongest. Now researchers led by Tom Meyer at the Energy Frontier Research ...
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A breakthrough for the field of Spintronics, a new type of technology which it is widely believed could be the basis of a future revolution in computing, has been announced by scientists in Cambridge. The research, reported in Nature ...
Currently, the most efficient methods we have for making fuel – principally, hydrogen – from sunlight and water involve rare and expensive metal catalysts, such as platinum. Humans have for ages taken cues from nature to build ...
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Understanding collective behavior of ultra-cold quantum gases is of great interest since it is intimately related to many encountered systems in nature such as human behavior, swarms of birds, traffic jam, sand dunes, neutron stars, ...
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But in making the most precise measurements ever of the shape of electrons, a team of Harvard and Yale scientists, led by Harvard's Gerald Gabrielse, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, John Doyle, professor of physics, and ...
Tags: Higgs boson, shape of electrons, Standard Model, theory of nature