Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Recently the Space Review had an article by Jeff Foust which indicated that Zubrin believes it is quite optimistic to get an alpha of 20 kg/kW for a power source for a VASIMR plasma rocket. The VASIMR mission architectures with the 39-day travel times had assumed …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is a 20 page presentation of a DOE roadmap of nuclear energy and uranium through 2100. There is an assumption that reactors can use up to 35 million tons of regular uranium and uranium in phosphate resources. The plan is to shift to breeder reactors …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. The Chinese government is preparing to spend $25 billion on wafer fabs to boost domestic chip manufacturing over the next five years. China’s chip industry had stumbled during the recession. So this is an effort to revive growth. In 2009 Mainland China produced 40 billion …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Physical Review Letters – Ultrafast Fourier Transform with a Femtosecond-Laser-Driven Molecule 4 page pdf) Vibrations of the atoms in a molecule are used to implement a Fourier transform orders of magnitude faster than possible with devices based on conventional electronics. Abstract : Wave functions of electrically …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software We are going to revolutionise the treatment of cancer during the next five years, says Professor Jonathan K.C. Knowles. Professor Jonathan K.C. Knowles from the Insitute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) is a global opinion leader in personalized medicine. So what will happen in personalized medicine during …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Journal Angewandte Chemie – A High-Performance Polymer Tin Sulfur Lithium Ion Battery A tin-sulfur lithium ion battery has an energy density value of the order of 1000 W h kg-1, which is five times higher than those of conventional batteries that containing intercalated materials (see picture). Replacement …
Quantum encrypted communication is currently limited to about 100 kilometers (60 mile) range. Improving the light storage efficiency will enable better quantum repeaters. Improving quantum repeaters by over ten times will allow for quantum encrypted communication with ranges of thousand of kilometers. Improvements in materials used can increase the effiency of light storage even more …
Junctionless transistors could be implemented commercially at around the 20-nm manufacturing node. The junctionless transistor scales far better than a conventional transistor which will need to implant and control complex dopant gradients and profiles in diminishing distances. “The junctionless device does scale better. You still need the high resolution etching but you don’t have to …
At today’s International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre report a 2.4GHz/915MHz wake-up receiver which consumes only 51µW power. This record low power achievement opens the door to battery-less or energy-harvesting based radios for a wide range of applications including long-range RFID and wireless sensor nodes for logistics, smart buildings, healthcare etc. Today’s …
A Wall Street Journal article written by a Director of an Indian Think Tank This seems to be an expression of what the Indian Government is thinking about climate change * It is in the Indian government’s interest to perpetuate a weak IPCC and a toothless Mr. Pachauri at its helm * The IPCC was …
Hitachi plans to use millimeter-wave communication to transfer high-definition (HD) video streams between AV equipment, such as wall-screen TVs and Blu-ray Disc recorders. Millimeter-wave communication will enable 1 gigabits per second and faster wireless communication. Hitachi, Toshiba and Panasonic are introducing their millimeter wave products in the second half of 2010. Sony appears to be …