MIT Work to make e-beam lithography mass-production technique at 9 nanometers

Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) present a way to get the resolution of high-speed e-beam lithography down to just nine nanometers. Combined with other emerging technologies, it could point the way toward making e-beam lithography practical as a mass-production technique. The main difference between e-beam lithography and photolithography is the exposure phase. …

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Efficiently solving Rubik Cubes of any size

Erik Demaine, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at MIT; his father, Martin Demaine, a visiting scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; graduate student Sarah Eisenstat; Anna Lubiw, who was Demaine’s PhD thesis adviser at the University of Waterloo; and Tufts graduate student Andrew Winslow showed that the maximum number …

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Efficiently solving Rubik Cubes of any size

Erik Demaine, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at MIT; his father, Martin Demaine, a visiting scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; graduate student Sarah Eisenstat; Anna Lubiw, who was Demaine’s PhD thesis adviser at the University of Waterloo; and Tufts graduate student Andrew Winslow showed that the maximum number …

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IBM making more reliable phase change memory

Long-term memory: Each cell in this 200,000-cell phase-change memory chip can store multiple bits of data reliably over a period of several months. Credit: IBM MIT Technology Review – IBM encoding phase-change memory for greater reliability IBM researchers have developed a programming trick that makes it possible to more reliably store large amounts of data …

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IBM making more reliable phase change memory

Long-term memory: Each cell in this 200,000-cell phase-change memory chip can store multiple bits of data reliably over a period of several months. Credit: IBM MIT Technology Review – IBM encoding phase-change memory for greater reliability IBM researchers have developed a programming trick that makes it possible to more reliably store large amounts of data …

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Meeting all of the earth’s energy needs with tethered platforms

A tethered platform hovering at an altitude of 20 kilometers would operate in the stratosphere, above most clouds and weather. At that altitude, a platform covered with photovoltaic cells would be able to collect considerably more sunlight than a ground-based solar collector. A company called stratosolar has developed a proposal to use either concentrated solar …

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Meeting all of the earth’s energy needs with tethered platforms

A tethered platform hovering at an altitude of 20 kilometers would operate in the stratosphere, above most clouds and weather. At that altitude, a platform covered with photovoltaic cells would be able to collect considerably more sunlight than a ground-based solar collector. A company called stratosolar has developed a proposal to use either concentrated solar …

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Current and Future Superconducting Wire Markets to 2017

Development of 2G HTS Wire for Demanding Electric Power Applications (30 pages, by Superpower Inc) Superpower Inc is improving the cost performance of its superconducting wire and is expecting major market gains over the next few years. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian …

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Current and Future Superconducting Wire Markets to 2017

Development of 2G HTS Wire for Demanding Electric Power Applications (30 pages, by Superpower Inc) Superpower Inc is improving the cost performance of its superconducting wire and is expecting major market gains over the next few years. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian …

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