Chips push through nano-barrier
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A major milestone in microchip production is achieved allowing smaller and higher performance chips.
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Photovoltaics made of nanowires could power small devices and lead to cheaper solar panels.
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Extended collaboration could result in chips built on 32-nanometer technology.
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Chips have become so tiny that atomic-level defects cause serious problems.
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Work is a step toward practical molecular memory devices
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A new type of memory could soon be available to device makers.
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon in chips for devices.
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A detector built from nanowire transistors can identify individual virus particles in real time in unpurified samples.
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Chip maker likely is making way for new products.
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Sheets of graphite only a few atoms thick could lead to ultrafast computer chips.
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Companies are developing MRAM, which could be used in portable electronic devices.
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Companies will use strained silicon to boost transistor speed.
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Scientists have developed an alloy they say can be used to create memory chips more than 500 times as fast as todayÂs flash chips.
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Intel said it was already starting to explore options such as carbon nanotubes and nanowires. Such materials will be needed to take chips below the 10 nanometer size, which is expected to occur early in the next decade.
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A process for transforming semiconductor nanowires into metallic nanowires makes it possible to produce nanotransistors complete with nanoscale electrical connectors.
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Nanotube transistors coated with light-sensitive polymers could replace today's digital camera technology
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In two papers published on Friday, I.B.M. researchers describe techniques that would allow electronics to be made from components far smaller than todayâs transistors and wires.