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Technology Research News October 8, 2003	Process orders nanowire arrays Harvard University researchers have found a way to neatly layer and pattern rows of nanowires.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors.
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Eric Smalley	Y Switches Set up Low-Power Logic Researchers are looking into Y-branch switches, which have the potential to use less energy because they turn circuits on and off by directing electrons in one of two directions rather than opening and closing the circuit.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004 Eric Smalley	Chip Architecture Uses Nanowires Nanoelectronics could eventually replace today's silicon chipmaking techniques when today's techniques run their course in a decade or two.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004	Hybrid Nanowire Makes Transistor One challenge in making minuscule electronic devices from nanoscale components is wiring the components together. Researchers have found a way to transform sections of semiconducting silicon nanowires into metallic, or conducting, nickel silicide.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005 Eric Smalley	Nano Bridge Builds Logic Researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science have given an old technology -- the mechanical electric switch -- a quantum update.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004	Nanotube Transistor Has Power Aiming to make electrical componets faster, researchers are working to make components from carbon nanotubes, which are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be smaller than a nanometer in diameter.
Chemistry World August 24, 2006 Michael Gross	Biotronics Branches Out Harvard researchers have developed nanowire transistors that interface with individual neurons and, even better, with the individual neuronal extensions that reach out to contact other cells.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Liu et al.	MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic A modern twist on a trusted old technology -- the electromechanical relay -- could lead to ultralow-power chips
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Keane & Kim	Transistor Aging Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power.
IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Linda Geppert	Power to the Molecules A "crossbar latch" supplies the missing piece for a nanosize alternative to the transistor. Now, researchers at Hewlett-Packard plan to knit them into a huge circuit, hoping to put the technology on the market in about 10 years.
Industrial Physicist Konstantin Likharev	Hybrid Semiconductor-Molecular Nanoelectronics Many physicists and engineers believe that the impending crisis due to limitations in CMOS technology may be resolved only by a radical paradigm shift from purely CMOS technology to hybrid semiconductor-molecular circuits.
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.
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
InternetNews February 2, 2005 Michael Singer	HP's 'Crossbar Latch' to Replace Transistors? The company's Quantum Science Research group comes up with new signal technology that could power computers.
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 Eric Smalley	Tools Design DNA-Nanotube Logic Researchers are aiming to make the process of assembling molecular-scale components easier with a suite of computer-aided design tools for designing computer circuits made from carbon nanotubes assembled by DNA.
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 Eric Smalley	Biochip spots single viruses A detector recently built from nanowire transistors can identify individual virus particles in real time in unpurified samples. Labs-on-a-chip based on the device could be used to monitor diseases.
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley	Noise boosts nanotube antennas Sometimes adding a little noise can help a signal come through loud and clear. This is true for the neural network between your ears, and it turns out to also be true for carbon nanotubes. The result could be better cell phones, chemical detectors and video screens.
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Ahmed & Schuegraf	Transistor Wars Rival architectures face off in a bid to keep Moore's Law alive. In May, Intel announced the most dramatic change to the architecture of the transistor since the device was invented.
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.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 David Needle	HP Claims Chip Advance Researchers say nanotechnology has let them pack many more transistors into chips.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment.
Chemistry World February 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Nano-welding with a light touch US researchers have found a new way to weld together metal nanowires - simply by bathing them in white light.
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Miguel Miranda	The Threat of Semiconductor Variability As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows
Technology Research News June 2, 2004	Plastic Nanowires Sense Gasses Cornell University researchers have devised a simple way to position conducting polymer nanowires on an electrode, and have made a prototype high-speed chemical detector that is capable of sensing minuscule amounts of ammonia gas.
Chemistry World February 5, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Hafnium Oxide Helps Make Chips Smaller and Faster Intel and IBM have announced that they will use dramatically different materials to build smaller, faster transistors for their next generation of chips.
Chemistry World August 23, 2012 Yuandi Li	Reversible photoswitch a boost for molecular electronics A team of international scientists has made a photocontrollable device, which, they say, shows potential for application in nanocircuits and helps the understanding of electrical conduction in molecular electronics.
Chemistry World December 23, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Opening the gate for molecular electronics Chemists in Korea and the US have shown that the current running through a transistor made of a single molecule can be regulated by tweaking its molecular orbital energies.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically.
Chemistry World May 29, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Nanocomposites From Bubbles An efficient new way to add nanowires or nanotubes into polymer films.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Neil Savage	Nanowire Silicon Solar Cell for Powering Small Circuits A new type of solar cell made from a nanometer-scale wire might one day provide an on-chip power source for nanoelectronic devices or run microscopic robots, say scientists.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Sally Adee	The Fastest, the Smallest, and the Strangest at IEDM This year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, as usual, is largely a race to the bottom
CIO January 1, 2003 Matthew W. Beale	Unseen Stripes Imagine a nanowire -- 10,000 times thinner than a human hair -- that can function as a transistor, a light-emitting diode, a biochemical sensor and many other devices, all along a single candy-striped strand.
Chemistry World January 5, 2011 Jon Cartright	Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments.
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.
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Michael Singer	HP Plots Its Nano Course Company believes in moving computing beyond silicon to the world of molecular-scale electronics.
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Nanowires spot DNA mutation Nanowire sensors could eventually be built into labs-on-a-chip that could be used for medical diagnostics and pathogen detection in the field, and for drug discovery.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004	Nanowires span silicon contacts One challenge in making electronics at the size-scale of molecules is finding ways to position and attach nanowires to the tiny components. Researchers from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories have succeeded in growning nanowires between electrodes.
Technology Research News December 3, 2003	Carbon boosts plastic circuits Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have devised an inexpensive way to add better-conducting organic source and drain electrodes to organic thin-film transistors.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Single electrons perform logic The ultimate in transistors, which turn on and off in response to a flow of electricity, is a device that can be tripped by a single electron. Researchers from Hokkaido University have put together an AND logic circuit made from four single-electron tunneling transistors.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Process prints nanoparticles Researchers have coaxed tiny particles of gold, silver and carbon to assemble into patterns on silicon wafers over areas as large as a square centimeter by using electrical charge patterns to attract and position the nanoparticles.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Nanowire Computer Circuits Debut Researchers have found a way to paint molecular-size circuitry onto glass. The method is potentially very low-cost, and could eventually be used to make computer chips that pack extremely tiny and thus powerful circuits.
Reactive Reports Issue 40 David Bradley	Lighting Up with Nanowires Semiconductor nanowires are beginning to emerge as rather versatile building blocks for creating photodetectors, LEDs and lasers
Technology Research News March 26, 2003	Tilted trenches turn out tiny wires Researchers from UCLA, UCSB, and Cal Tech have found a way to make arrays of closely-spaced and crossed metal and semiconductor nanowires.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Sarah Adee	Transistors Go Vertical The semiconductor industry fights silicon sprawl by building up, not out. Today's CMOS transistor is planar, but chip makers are exploring more power-efficient three-dimensional structures as well as a planar structure with two gates.
Chemistry World April 5, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Ultrasonic Waves to Power Future Nanomachines A team of materials scientists has developed an innovative nano-scale power supply which is fueled by ultrasonic waves. The scientists predict that their nanogenerator could power the next generation of nanomachines.
Technology Research News June 16, 2004	Silicon Nanowires Grown in Place Researchers have found a way to grow nanowires between pairs of metal electrodes deposited on silicon wafers.