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A tiny part is destined to have a big effect on the space program. NASA's Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Ala., is preparing an electromechanical actuator that's going to save […]

* Physicists at IBM-Almaden have demonstrated a specially patterned magnetic medium that achieves data storage densities up to 100 Gbits/in [2]. For this, scientists used a focused ion beam to […]

Scaling analog circuits and data converters in CMOS has always been a daunting task for designers. But those hurdles get taller as developers begin migrating toward design rules of 0.25 […]

During the Cold War, scientists developed radar anti-jamming technology to detect missiles from space-borne satellites. But that era is over, and those scientists have now found a way to use […]

'We believe the lack of a vacuum tube and high-voltage electronics offers significant improvements in the areas of display safety, cost, complexity, and size.' Researchers at the University of Central […]

A new basic electronic compont may result from research under way in at least two organizations. Developed so far is a simple thin-film device that operates at cryogenic temperatures and […]

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., have created a cheesecloth-like bar that bends infrared beams with low loss. This development may provide a simple, […]

* Gadolinium-silicon-germanium (GdSiGe) alloys, materials that experience dramatic temperature changes in response to changing magnetic fields, may one day be used to build sensors and energy-conversion devices. Researchers at the […]

* Claiming a world-best speed record for optical data transmission, researchers at Siemens have transmitted 7 Tbits/s over a single optical fiber using dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM). That's the equivalent […]

Scientists at Germany's University of Augs burg have dramatically increased the electrical capacity of a promising superconducting material. Its most recent configuration transmits up to six times more current than […]

Researchers at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., have successfully programmed a computer to simulate the evolutionary process in a population of simple robots. The computer tested each successive generation of […]

While the airline companies are announcing larger and larger widebodies, the electronics industry is going smaller and smaller -- with jets as small as a few nanometers in diameter. Researchers […]

From World War II to Somalia, the percentage of casualties caused by landmines has risen sharply. These explosives have indiscriminately killed and wounded soldiers and civilians for over six decades. […]

A sampling device smaller than the tip of a fingernail promises big results for detecting and analyzing trace chemicals. Developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, […]

This idea presents apiece of firmware that has proven to be both compact and extremely useful in several field applications involving embedded controllers. The concept originated when one of our […]

Resistance temperature detectors (RTDs) are among the most versatile and accurate of the commonly used temperature sensors. However, the typical RTD's temperature response consists of resistance variations on the order […]

A self-assembling DNA motor developed by researchers from Bell Labs, Murray Hill, N.J., and the University of Oxford in the U.K. may provide the basis for building microprocessors when Moore's […]

Scientists at Bell Labs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an electronic circuit that mimics the biological circuitry of the cerebral cortex. In the future, devices that behave […]

Magma Design Automation Inc. has founded a research and development center at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. The center is chartered with developing next-generation logical and physical […]

Super-resolution displays stem from the convergence of computer graphics and video signals, bringing the promise of unprecedented, high-quality, visual content to homes and businesses. Quad XGA (QXGA) features 2048 by […]

Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley are on a process working to make semiconductor nanocrystals shaped like rods. Until now, all nonmetal […]

The Metal Processing Institute (MPI) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) was awarded a $1 million grant to continue its work in metalcasting activities. Specifically, the money will be used to […]

By applying an inorganic electro-luminescent technology to the fabrication of full-color flat-panel emissive displays, researchers at iFire Technology Inc., Toronto, Canada, have been able to achieve a brightness of 150 […]

Is there a more accurate way to measure changing magnetic fields in applications like automotive navigation systems, medical imaging, landmine detection, and industrial controls? Fluxgate-technology-based magnetometers served some of these […]

The University of Notre Dame's Center for Nanoscience and Technology has opened Researchers can freely explore the potential for new nanoscience-based applications and industries at the centers cutting-edge facilities. Industry […]

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N.M., have created what are believed to be the world's first diamond micromachines. These devices are etched from a surface of amorphous diamond, the […]

Researchers from Stanford University Menlo Park, Calif., and the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., are working to uncover dues to high-temperature (Tc) superconductivity. This data may […]

A new, single-disc type memory, representing a novel approach to the fast-access, large-storage problem, was shown at the Eastern Joint Computer Conference by the Laboratory for Electronics, Inc. Named the […]

A team of international scientists led by researchers from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory may have devised a new way to use the annihilation of matter […]

The National Science Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the University of Tennessee to create an experimental technology grid that will serve the Knoxville campus. This technology, to be […]

For decades, researchers have been studying the behavior of the human brain. Advances in computer technologies, software algorithms, and mathematical analysis have led to great strides in modeling the brain. […]

For decades, researchers have been struggling to come up with the right gate-oxide material to allow the fabrication of a gallium-arsenide-based, metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). Such a device would […]

The laser micromachining of aluminum-nitride (AIN) holds promise as a piezoelectric material for acoustic sensing, as demonstrated by experiments at Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich. Researchers Feng Zhong, Changhe Huang, […]

A test chip for researching signal integrity effects in a 0.13-µm process has been taped out. The ATG-SI, a collaboration between UMC, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, Calif., […]