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Silicon nanowires give Moore's Law some breathing space

Australian scientists have fabricated a silicon wire just four atoms wide. Although it is a mere 10,000th the size of a... Read more

17 January, 2012
Modeling of Reliability for Programmable <endeca_term>Nanowires</endeca_term> Interconnect

Modeling of Reliability for Programmable Nanowires Interconnect

A Field-Programmable Nanowire Interconnect (FPNI) is from hybrid CMOS/nano circuit family, that generalizes CMOL... Read more

7 February, 2012
IBM spins nanotubes, wire and graphene

IBM spins nanotubes, wire and graphene

...percent yield of working magnetic tunnel junctions with around 50-percent good nanowires. Image credit: IBM Read more

8 December, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Researchers detail programmable nanoprocessor

...detailed the architecture for a programmable nanoprocessor built out of ultra-small 'nanowires'. The nanoprocessor, outlined in a Nature article published on Wednesday, is formed... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

Delft researchers put qubits in a nanowire spin

...researchers have used a nanowire makes the research a little more intriguing. Nanowires have been used recently to make LEDs, and that suggests (with more... Read more

25 December, 2010
Design of an Addressable Internetworked Microscale Sensor

Design of an Addressable Internetworked Microscale Sensor

...many significant breakthroughs that suggest a bright future for the technology. Silicon nanowires have received particular attention for their use as sense elements because of... Read more

1 December, 2010

The future is very, very small, say Intel

...By 2014, chips may include transistors constructed with carbon nanotubes or silicon nanowires, rather than silicon. By 2020, more radical changes will likely be required... Read more

25 October, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Nanowires

...but you can do billions at a time. Once you have your nanowires, you can deposit other stuff around them to create transistors that work... Read more

24 June, 2008

IDF: Where no chip has gone before

...said that it is working with Harvard and other universities on silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes, two experimental structures made up of, respectively, self-assembling... Read more

13 September, 2002 by Michael Kanellos

Silicon's successor lurks in the lab

Other researchers also say that silicon nanowires -- solid microscopic strands of silicon -- could prove to be easier for semiconductor... Read more

20 October, 2003 by Michael Kanellos

Start-up looks to extend battery life

Intel-backed ZPower's silver-zinc battery is to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising 40 percent longer battery life Read more

9 October, 2008 by Matthew Broersma
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency

IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency

...in a statement on Friday. IBM is also developing nanotechnology structures, involving nanowires and quantum dot semiconductors, to make photovoltaic cells more efficient. The magnifying... Read more

16 May, 2008 by Tom Espiner

IBM hopes to use DNA to build chips

...these structures as bread boards on which to assemble carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, quantum dots," said Greg Wallraff, an IBM scientist and a lithography and... Read more

20 February, 2008 by Michael Kanellos
Researchers claim battery-life breakthrough

Researchers claim battery-life breakthrough

...a single charge. The researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to give rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, used in laptops, iPods... Read more

15 January, 2008 by Alex Serpo
The transistor turns 60

The transistor turns 60

...and power efficiency of processors by using an overhead grid of tiny nanowires for chip communications. This diagram shows how the crossbar network of wires... Read more

17 December, 2007 by ZDNet UK

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