Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software 1. Japan is planning to build nine new nuclear power plants by 2020, and 14 by 2030, according to a draft strategy document by METI, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Nuclear power’s security of supply and low-carbon output have made it a strategic priority …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has successfully demonstrated an ultra-high-capacity optical transmission of 69.1 terabits per second (tera = one trillion) over a single 240 km-long optical fiber. The 69.1 Tb/s transmission, based on the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) of 432 wavelengths with a capacity of …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A UT Dallas team’s study published in the Journal of Applied Physics expands the extraordinary capabilities of nanotechnology to include laser-powered acoustic speakers made from assemblies of carbon nanotubes. The study confirms earlier research that carbon nanotubes that are stretched into sheets and electrically powered can produce …
The death toll from the massive earthquake in the capital Port-au-Prince could reach 200,000, Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime says. “We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies. We anticipate there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number,” the minister said. The security situation is …
Nanowerk reports that RUSNANO (russian nanotechnology initiative) is financing production of nanostructured membranes and separating modules for treating water. The products to come from this project are membrane plating and membranous roll-fed modules that are used in the process of filtration and reverse osmosis. Participants in the project, which is estimated at 1.92 billion rubles, …
1. Swedish telecommunications company TeliaSonera has launched the world’s first commercially available 4G mobile broadband network. Based on the much talked about LTE or Long Term Evolution Technology, the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards aims to give users a seamless service across several different networks and systems. It will have speeds of up to …
Nature Nanotechnology: Large-area spatially ordered arrays of gold nanoparticles directed by lithographically confined DNA origami The development of nanoscale electronic and photonic devices will require a combination of the high throughput of lithographic patterning and the high resolution and chemical precision afforded by self-assembly. However, the incorporation of nanomaterials with dimensions of less than 10 …
This is a follow up of Sanders report of day one of the International Electron Devices Meeting Sander Olson reports on Day 2 and 3. Days 2 and 3 of the International Electron Devices Meeting focused on both conventional and radical switching paradigms to continue Moore’s law as long as possible. Conventional techniques, such as …
China is expecting to have 1400-1500 GW of electrical generation capacity in 2020 China has announced plans to double its nuclear power generation goal from 4% to 8% of total installed power capacity by 2020. China’s Ministry of Finance and its State Administration of Taxation already implemented a 15 year tax preference policy for the …
The antimatter rocket described in Walter’s paper can achieve a specific impulse of about0.58c (after correcting for a missed Lorentz factor). This is much higher than Walter’s figure of 0.21c, and it agrees with some calculations previously published by Vulpetti. Even better efficiency and even higher specific impulses could be achieved if a way to …
In a paper appearing today in Physical Review Letters, however, MIT researchers present a new algorithm that could exponential speed solutions of systems of linear equations — whose solution is crucial to image processing, video processing, signal processing, robot control, weather modeling, genetic analysis and population analysis, to name just a few applications. Researchers at …