HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Heat Transfer Sets Noise Floor for Ultrasensitive Electronics
A team of engineers and scientists has identified a source of electronic noise that could affect the functioning of instruments operating at very low temperatures, such as devices used in radio telescopes and advanced physics experiments.
Apple and Samsung Drive Adoption of Next-Generation Sensors
Propelled by the race between Apple and Samsung to enhance their mobile products with cutting-edge sensor technology, the market for sensors in cellphones and tablets is set to nearly triple from 2012 through 2018, according to IHS Technology.
Carbon Nanotube Light Source Could Cut Power Consumption
Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a type of energy-efficient flat light source based on carbon nanotubes with power consumption of around 0.1 Watt for every hour's operation, about a hundred times lower than that of an LED.
NIST Quantum Probe Enhances Electric Field Measurements
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Michigan have demonstrated a technique based on the quantum properties of atoms that directly links measurements of electric field strength to the International System of Units (SI).
Energy Storage for Flexible Electronic Devices
Researchers have found that crumpling a piece of graphene "paper" — a material formed by bonding together layers of the two-dimensional form of carbon — can yield new properties that could be useful for creating stretchable supercapacitors to store energy for flexible electronic devices.
Envisioning European Semiconductor Supremacy
The European Commission announced an effort last year to secure a solid share of semiconductor manufacturing for the European Union by 2020. Entitled EU 10|100|20, the initiative is being overseen by the European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council.