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Chemistry World June 21, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
'Atomic traffic jam' sheds light on phase changes The prospect of a new generation of electronic computer memory devices based on metallic alloys that can switch between crystalline and amorphous phases has moved a step closer with two new pieces of research. |
Chemistry World October 10, 2013 Laura Howes |
The dance of glass atoms caught on tape A collaboration between US and German-based researchers has used transmission electron microscopy to watch how the atoms in glass rearrange. |
Chemistry World June 15, 2006 Jon Evans |
Through a CO2 Glass Darkly European researchers may have found a new way to capture and store CO2, by transforming it into a solid, glass-like substance. |
Chemistry World February 1, 2008 Victoria Gill |
Snapshots Reveal Bone Mineral's Strength Secret Researchers in the Netherlands have produced the first real-time, three-dimensional images of the formation of calcium carbonate crystals, a robust biological mineral that holds promise as a future bone replacement material. |
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Growing great graphene on germanium Macroscopic films of monolayer, single crystalline graphene free of the defects that dog other production methods have been grown on germanium. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Neil Savage |
Phase-Change Materials Could Boost Reconfigurable Chips More powerful FPGAs and other reconfigurable chips could come from vertical wires made from phase-change material. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2006 Richard Van Noorden |
Microscopy Enters the Fourth Dimension Researchers have taken electron microscopy into the fourth dimension, by recording atoms darting around on a surface in real time. |
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Cheaper optics-chip link on tap One of the best ways to speed up the Internet would be to extend all the way to the home the fiber-optic lines that make up the Net's backbone. One piece of the fiber-to-the-home puzzle is a low-cost way of converting light pulses to electrical signals. A new semiconductor may do the trick. |
Scientific American April 18, 2005 Kauffmann & van den Bosch |
CT Scan for Molecules Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals. |
InternetNews October 29, 2009 |
Intel, Numonyx Invent the Memory Club Sandwich New means of stacking layers will allow for more memory density. |
Chemistry World January 15, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Blowing up brain tissue with swelling polymer delivers sharper images A new microscopic technique that magnifies specimens by blowing them up like a balloon could make it easier to produce high resolution images of cells and tissues. |
InternetNews December 7, 2004 Michael Singer |
IBM Perks Up Memory, Transistors The company shrinks its SRAM and adds a dash of germanium fuel to its chips. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Crystal within a crystal Colleagues at the University of Strasbourg used a molecular tectonics strategy to prepare the crystals. |
Chemistry World December 20, 2013 Emma Shiells |
Crystals in glass: a hidden beauty Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but anyone browsing this collection of glass crystallisation images beheld by Edgar Zanotto's eye is unlikely to disagree with his assessment of beauty. |
Chemistry World August 13, 2010 James Urquhart |
Zooming in on intermolecular bonds German researchers have captured clear images of intermolecular bonds for the first time using a modified form of scanning tunnelling microscopy. |
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette |
Seeing with Sound Acoustic microscopy is making inroads into areas such as materials characterization, biology, and medical diagnosis, and giving researchers yet another valuable tool in their imaging arsenal. |
Chemistry World October 14, 2014 James Urquhart |
Good vibrations for electron microscopy The physical and chemical properties of materials will be better understood thanks to researchers who added vibrational spectroscopy to the electron microscope at a spatial resolution of just a few nanometers. |
Chemistry World February 7, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Crystal ribbons grow on a curve Colleagues at Harvard University in the US investigated the effects of elastic stress on crystals, which is increased by growing them on a curved surface rather than a flat one. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2011 Rachel Courtland |
Alternative Memories Get the Carbon Nanotube Test RRAM and phase-change memory - two alternatives to flash - have been constructed using carbon nanotube electrodes. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage |
Light at the End of the Chip IBM's low-power germanium photodetectors may bring optical interconnects to microprocessors |
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Saswato R. Das |
Power Tool for Making Nanoscale Objects A physics team uses a special electron microscope to carve tiny gold, silver, and aluminum structures a few nanometers across. |