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Electrical Engineer Granted $453K to Create Miniature On-Chip Laser

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Jelena Vuckovic, a Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership and professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, is the winner of the £350,000 IET A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize from The Institution of Engineering and Technolo...

Dec 27, 2019

Elastic kirigami patch for electromyographic analysis of the palm muscle during baseball pitching

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Surface electromyography (sEMG) is widely used to investigate human motion including athletic performance. Baseball pitchers require very precise movements to pitch the ball to the strike zone, where the palm muscle plays a key role during movemen...

Dec 27, 2019

Device splits and recombines superconducting electron pairs

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A device that can separate and recombine pairs of electrons may offer a way to study an unusual form of superconductivity, according to RIKEN physicists. This superconducting state would involve exotic particles called Majorana fermions that could...

Dec 27, 2019

Complete filling of batches of nanopipettes

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Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Analytical Chemistry an efficient method for filling a batch of nanopipettes with a pore opening below 10 nanometers. The method is based on the application of a temperature gradient to the nanopipette ...

Dec 27, 2019

A fast and inexpensive nanotube device to capture and identify viruses

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Researchers synthesized a gradient of aligned carbon nanotube forest arrays to capture different viruses according to their size and detect them in-situ using Raman spectroscopy. They designed and assembled a portable platform that enriches virus ...

Dec 27, 2019

Nanowire device splits and recombines superconducting electron pairs

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A nanowire device could help explore a form of superconductivity that features exotic particles with potential uses in quantum computing.

Dec 27, 2019

Brain-like functions emerging in a metallic nanowire network

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Emerging fluctuation-based functionalities are expected to open a way to novel memory device technology.

Dec 26, 2019

Surface acoustic waves in graphene: straintronics with nanoquakes

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Researchers have shown that the properties of graphene can be locally and dynamically modulated by means of a surface acoustic wave, a kind of earthquake on a chip, generated with an integrated transducer on a piezoelectric substrate holding the g...

Dec 26, 2019

Silicon Quantum Bits Communicate over Relatively Long Distances

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A Princeton University research team has shown that silicon quantum bits (qubits), mediated by a microwave photon, can interact even when spaced relatively far apart on a computer chip. The ability to transmit messages across relatively long dista...

Dec 26, 2019

Creating switchable plasmons in plastics

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Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed optical nanoantennas made from a conducting polymer. The antennas

Dec 26, 2019

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