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RAM Group Introduces Full-Body Biometric Authentication Technology
May 9, 2017RAM Group, Singaporean based technology firm, has announced a new breakthrough in biometric authentication based on a novel quantum-state sensor that exploits quantum mechanical properties to perform biometric authentication. These new ...
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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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Blue LEDs Earning Their Inventors The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
Jan 12, 2015Researchers at the UK’s University College London (UCL), in collaboration with groups at the University of Bath and Daresbury Laboratory’s Scientific Computing Department in Warrington, UK, are said to have uncovered why blue ...
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IBM Is Investing $3bn Over The Next 5 Years to Push The Limits of Chip Technology
Aug 20, 2014IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
Tags: IBM, Big-Data Systems
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Full Infrared Spectrum Has The Potential to Put Heat Vision Technology Into a Contact Lens
Mar 17, 2014The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors currently on the market, the ...
Tags: contact lens, light detector, Electronics
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Researchers Have Created a New Type of "Ultracold" Molecule
Mar 13, 2014Researchers have created a new type of "ultracold" molecule, using lasers to cool atoms nearly to absolute zero and then gluing them together, a technology that might be applied to quantum computing, precise sensors and advanced ...
Tags: quantum computing, "ultracold"molecule, extreme cooling
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The Physicists in Innsbruck Cool Erbium Atoms to a Few Hundred Nanokelvin
Mar 13, 2014A team of University of Innsbruck researchers discovered that even simple systems, such as neutral atoms, can possess chaotic behavior, which can be revealed using the tools of quantum mechanics. The ground-breaking research, published in ...
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Researchers Used Light to Create Links Between Organic and Inorganic Semiconductors
Mar 7, 2014(Phys.org) —Like a spring connecting two swings, light can act as photon glue that binds together the quantum mechanical properties of two vastly different materials. The effect could harness the most useful characteristics from ...
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A Property Known as Ballistic Transport
Feb 14, 2014Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature – a property ...
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Tablets and Other Gadgets Become Smaller and More Sophisticated
Jan 22, 2014As smartphones, tablets and other gadgets become smaller and more sophisticated, the heat they generate while in use increases. This is a growing problem because it can cause the electronics inside the gadgets to fail. Conventional wisdom ...
Tags: smartphones, tablets, Consumer Electronics
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NIST-4, Begins Operation Later This Year
Jan 15, 2014After two years of difficult and meticulous work examining, refurbishing, and testing the aging workhorse watt balance called NIST-3, PML researchers have used the instrument to obtain their latest measured value of the Planck constant ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Exploiting Quantum Phenomena Show Photosynthesis
Jan 10, 2014Light-gathering macromolecules in plant cells transfer energy by taking advantage of molecular vibrations whose physical descriptions have no equivalents in classical physics, according to the first unambiguous theoretical evidence of ...
Tags: photosynthesis, light-gathering macromolecules, quantum mechanical
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Maxwell's Demon Can Decrease The Entropy of a System
Dec 24, 2013In theory, Maxwell's demon can decrease the entropy of a system by opening and closing a door at appropriate times to separate hot and cold gas molecules. But as physicist Leó Szilárd pointed out in 1929, entropy does not ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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In a New Study,a Bandgap Can Be Opened in Graphene
Dec 19, 2013Despite graphene's many impressive properties, its lack of a bandgap limits its use in electronic applications. In a new study, scientists have theoretically shown that a bandgap can be opened in graphene by folding 2D graphene sheets ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics
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IQE Presented a Joint Paper on a New Type of Transistor
Dec 17, 2013At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
Tags: Low-Power Tunneling Transistor, Electrical, Electronics