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IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Joel E. Moore |
Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Lieven Vandersypen |
Dot-to-Dot Design Researchers are connecting tiny puddles of electrons in a chip and making them compute -- the quantum way.  |
Wired April 2000 David Voss |
Instant Access Memory He's already set off one computer storage revolution. Now Stuart Parkin is reengineering RAM so we'll never have to boot up again.  |
Technology Research News October 17, 2005 |
Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions.  |
Chemistry World October 9, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Science Behind Your Hard Drive Scoops Physics Nobel The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grunberg, for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Sung & Lee |
Graphene: The Ultimate Switch Graphene could replace the transistor with switches that steer electrons just like beams of light  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage |
Spintronic Memristors Researchers have made magnetic devices that act like the recently discovered fourth circuit element  |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.  |
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al. |
The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s.  |
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Magnetic memory makes logic Magnetic memory will soon put an end to the daily annoyance of waiting while your computer boots up from its hard disk. These chips that hold data when the power is off might also be capable of a lot more. Adding a few extra wires to each memory cell could turn the chips into efficient computer processors.  |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Light writes data in electrons Researchers developed a spin memory device that writes data as electron spins using lasers, stores the electrons in quantum dots, and reads spin information by applying a voltage to the quantum dots to generate photons.  |
Wired October 2001 Wil McCarthy |
Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch...  |
Industrial Physicist Avouris & Appenzeller |
Electronics and Optoelectronics with Carbon Nanotubes Evaluating the potential of carbon nanotubes as the basis of a future nanoelectronics technology.  |
InternetNews April 26, 2004 Michael Singer |
IBM Takes Nano Chip Design for a 'Spin' A collaboration between IBM and Stanford University could lead to reconfigurable logic devices, room-temperature superconductors and quantum computers.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Holonyak & Feng |
The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier.  |
Industrial Physicist Dec 2003/Jan 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Infrared tissue scans... Better electronic paper... Rapid manufacturing... Flipping storage fields  |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.  |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility.  |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 R. Stanley Williams |
How We Found the Missing Memristor The memristor -- the functional equivalent of a synapse -- could revolutionize circuit design  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye |
Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa |
Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials  |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Electron teams make bigger qubits Making quantum computers from electronic chips rather than cumbersome laboratory equipment requires control over individual electrons. A scheme that has a string of electrons acting as one could ease the task by expanding the target to a whopping 250 millionths of a millimeter.  |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Chips measure electron spin Practical quantum computers are at least a decade away, and some researchers are betting that they will never be built. But a pair of recent experiments may prove them wrong.  |
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 February 2013 Rachel Courtland |
Graphene Goes the Distance in Spintronics Experiments push electron-spin signals to record lengths  |
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 |
Magnetic Logic Becomes Practical Researchers from Stanford University have improved a way to program magnetic random access memory (MRAM) to carry out computations.  |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Metal atoms make silicon magnetic Devices made from magnetic semiconductors can make use of the spin of the electron in addition to its charge. These spintronics devices are potentially faster and consume less power than today' electronics.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Joshua J. Romero |
Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms.  |
Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner |
News Briefs Detecting a Single Spin... Handheld Chem Lab... Superprisms... Growing Nanotrees...  |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2010 Richard Stevenson |
Lasers Get the Green Light Compact green-light sources could slash the cost of laser TV  |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Memory Stores Three Bits in One Researchers have built a prototype molecular memory device that stores three bits in the same spot, multiplying storage density without increasing the device footprint.  |
RootPrompt.org May 24, 2000 Peter Gutmann |
Secure Deletion of Data With the use of increasingly sophisticated encryption systems, an attacker wishing to gain access to sensitive data is forced to look elsewhere for information....  |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs A magnetic microscope for the brain... Spin and energy -- free?... Finest nanowire arrays... Solar-cell burnout... etc.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Berlin & Casey |
Robert Noyce and the Tunnel Diode A 50-year-old notebook reveals the seed of a great invention.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Richard Stevenson |
Tapping the Power of 100 Suns Concentrated solar power will keep future armies on the march  |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 |
Spin material handles heat Researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have doped, or mixed the semiconductor zinc oxide with the metal manganese to make a ferromagnetic semiconductor material that retains its magnetic properties at temperatures as high as 177 degrees Celsius.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 David Lammers |
Resistive RAM Gains Ground Faith in phase-change memory falters  |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Electron pairs power quantum plan Researchers from HP Laboratories and Qinetiq plc in England have mapped out a way to manipulate a pair of very cold electrons that could eventually lead to practical quantum computers made from quantum dots, or tiny specks of the type of semiconductor material used in electronics.  |
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 |
The Father of Flash When Fujio Masuoka invented the flash-memory chip at Toshiba in the '80s, he launched the Digital Era.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Neil Savage |
Hynix Makes No-Capacitor DRAM Z-RAM memory design might find a spot in the competitive DRAM market  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Hadjipanayis & Gabay |
The Incredible Pull of Nanocomposite Magnets Nanotechnology could make rare earth magnets even stronger.  |
Chemistry World February 13, 2011 James Urquhart |
Guiding electrons through graphene US researchers have created a graphene-based device that guides electrons through the material in the same way an optical fiber guides light, using electrical gates.  |
Industrial Physicist Theis & Coufal |
How IBM Sustains the Leading Edge Although we constantly focus on the market, IBM Research has also produced a remarkable string of scientific firsts in physics and in other fields of science and engineering.  |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 |
Square Rings Promise Reliable MRAM Researchers are working on magnetic random access memory chips that hold as much data as standard electronic memory chips. The key to a promising design is a nanowire bent into a circle.  |
CIO August 15, 2001 Daniel Sweeney |
New Memory Flash provided the technical foundation for today's PDAs and smart phones, but it is relatively slow compared with volatile memory and consumes considerable energy. Three next-generation technologies are currently vying for the huge Flash market...  |
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 |
Electricity loosens tiny bits Researchers have found a way to make flipping small bits easier. The electrically-assisted magnetization reversal process weakens the magnetization of a ferromagnetic semiconductor's magnetization by applying a pinpoint electric field, making the magnetization of individual bits easier to flip.  |