Researchers claims to have developed a method for producing a layer of graphene on a silicon carbide (SiC) wafer to form a semiconductor with a band gap of 0.6 eV and with room temperature electron mobility 10-20 times larger than other 2D semiconductors. They used a quasi-equilibrium annealing method to produces high-quality semiconducting epigraphene (SEG) …
Diamond anvils can make superconductors at or near room temperature in the lab. Now a path to useful room-temperature superconductors has been briefly shown using 10 THz lasers. A few watts of Continuous 10 Thz lasers hitting K3C60 (a fullerene), can make the material behave as a room temperature superconductor. What still must be done …
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has made a new type of accelerator structure that gives 10 times larger energy gain over the same distance in a regular accelerator. Accelerators can be made 10 times shorter or more powerful. Above – SLAC scientists have invented a copper accelerator structure that could make future X-ray lasers and accelerators …
Following three years of extensive research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) physicist Dr. Uriel Levy and his team have created technology that will enable our computers—and all optic communication devices—to run 100 times faster through terahertz microchips. Until now, two major challenges stood in the way of creating the terahertz microchip: overheating and scalability. However, …
An off-the-wall new study by Brown University researchers shows that terahertz frequency data links can bounce around a room without dropping too much data. The results are good news for the feasibility of future terahertz wireless data networks, which have the potential to carry many times more data than current networks. Today’s cellular networks and …
Researchers have demonstrated the transmission of two separate video signals through a terahertz multiplexer at a data rate more than 100 times faster than today’s fastest cellular data networks. Multiplexing, the ability to send multiple signals through a single channel, is a fundamental feature of any voice or data communication system. An international research team …
Alec Peters discusses how they intend to tell the most story for the two 15 minute segments that are permitted in the lawsuit settlement. He thinks it will be two 15 minute episodes in the documentary format. The second one focusing on the battle itself and perhaps the end of the first one. There will …
Researchers from The University of Manchester have shown that it is possible to build a new super-fast form of computer that “grows as it computes”. Professor Ross D King and his team have demonstrated for the first time the feasibility of engineering a nondeterministic universal Turing machine (NUTM), and their research is to be published …
Hans Rosling (1948–2017), physician and epidemiologist, famously upturned assumptions widely held by the public and by the development community — assumptions that, thanks to US President Donald Trump, are back in the spotlight. A recurring theme of Rosling’s was that family sizes have been shrinking even though child survival rates have improved. Rosling’s global statistics …
A new design reduces converter’s resting power consumption by 50 percent. he “internet of things” is the idea that vehicles, appliances, civil structures, manufacturing equipment, and even livestock will soon have sensors that report information directly to networked servers, aiding with maintenance and the coordination of tasks. Those sensors will have to operate at very …
Nantero Inc., the nanotechnology company developing next-generation memory using carbon nanotubes, today announced the closing of an over $21 million financing round. The lead investor in the round was Globespan Capital Partners and also included participation from both new and existing strategic and financial investors. Nantero currently has more than a dozen partners and customers …