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Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Nanocomputer skips clock Harnessing nanotechnology to build computer chips could lead to ultrafast, ultracheap, low- power computers. But today's chip designs don't translate well to the molecular scale. One proposal calls for throwing out the clock.  |
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Logic scheme gains power Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have pushed an alternative computer chip architecture a step forward by finding a way to refresh the short-lived signals the scheme uses to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information.  |
Technology Research News March 12, 2003 |
Cold logic promises speedy devices Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory have made a superconducting logic circuit that computes very quickly and requires little power.  |
Technology Research News December 19, 2005 |
Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Rachel Courtland |
Superconductor Logic Goes Low-Power Energy-efficient superconducting circuits could be key to future supercomputers  |
Chemistry World May 22, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Materials 'sandwich' superconducts Scientists in Japan have made a 'superconducting sandwich' from two materials are not superconductors in isolation. The technique could be used to make electronic circuits with extremely low power consumption, the researchers suggest.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 73 David Bradley |
Super Insulator An international team of scientists has created a material that at close to absolute zero has an electrical resistance 100,000 times higher than its room temperature value.  |
Industrial Physicist Eric Lerner |
Briefs Penetrating the fog... Plasma self-organization... Stronger than spider silk... Slow light... etc.  |
PC Magazine October 11, 2006 |
Terabits In The Vortex Consider a hard drive that can store thousands of movies per square inch. Is it possible?  |