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IEEE Spectrum
November 2010
Bedair et al. |
Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage   |
Technology Research News
October 17, 2005 |
Data storage technologies Today's magnetic disk drives could be improved by incorporating much larger magnetoresistance or replaced by microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), near-field optics, holographic systems, or even molecules for better data storage solutions. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003
Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs A magnetic microscope for the brain... Spin and energy -- free?... Finest nanowire arrays... Solar-cell burnout... etc. |
Technology Research News
September 24, 2003 |
Rapid Process Shapes Aluminum Rapid prototyping processes are routinely used for plastics and some metals, but aluminum has proved elusive. Researchers in Australia have come up with a rapid manufacturing process for aluminum that infiltrates an aluminum alloy powder with a liquid aluminum alloy. |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004
Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Opening the x-ray water window... Zero thermal expansion... Magnetoresistor computing... A pressure-driven battery |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2010
Edward H. Sargent |
Infrared Optoelectronics You Can Apply With a Brush Infrared quantum dots will lead to cheaper photovoltaic cells. When the fabrication of optoelectronic devices becomes almost as easy as splashing paint on a canvas, our assumptions about the high cost of high-performance optoelectronic devices will be turned on its head. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Richard Stevenson |
Lasers Get the Green Light Compact green-light sources could slash the cost of laser TV |
Industrial Physicist
Eric Lerner |
Briefs Penetrating the fog... Plasma self-organization... Stronger than spider silk... Slow light... etc. |
Wired
October 2001
Wil McCarthy |
Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch... |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Paniccia & Koehl |
The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing |
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
News Superlenses... Self-organizing device... Silicon photonics... Millennia of global warming... |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2004
Alfred Poor |
What's New With Displays Our guide explains state-of-the-art display technology and looks ahead. |
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
News Briefs Detecting a Single Spin... Handheld Chem Lab... Superprisms... Growing Nanotrees... |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Andrew J. Steckl |
Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2006
Holonyak & Feng |
The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Jason Heikenfeld |
The Electronic Display of the Future Kindle, iPad, Droid -- these compact mobile devices are essentially all display. But the screens aren't all we'd like them to be. Yet. |
Technology Research News
November 3, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron. |
Technology Research News
January 28, 2004 |
Inkjet goes 3D Just as color printers are becoming status quo, a new technology may enable something more -- three-dimensional desktop printers. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2010
Richard Stevenson |
Winner: NanoGaN's Crystal Method NanoGaN's substrates will grow better, cheaper lasers |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2008
Peide D. Ye |
Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors |
Technology Research News
October 8, 2003
Eric Smalley |
E-paper closes in on video Watching full motion video on a display that you can roll up and stuff in your pocket is a tantalizing prospect. An electronic ink that changes about 70 times a second brings this vision closer to reality. The technology is all about combining oil and water. |
Industrial Physicist
Feb/Mar 2004 |
New Products Pump-Compressor... High-Speed Camera... Laser Scan Arm... Oil-Shear Brakes... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2012
Miles et al. |
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs A laser could ionize a distant puff of air and thus safely detect the fumes from buried explosives |
Industrial Physicist
Apr/May 2003
Patrick Young |
Salute to new Fellows Thirteen members of the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics were elected Fellows of the American Physical Society, an honor bestowed each year by the society on a select group of its members from industry, academia, and government. |
IndustryWeek
January 20, 2010
Peter Alpern |
Beam Me Up a Part, Scotty As rapid prototyping matures as a technology, it's branched into new industries and is being used for more than producing prototypes. |
AboutSafety
May 8, 2001 |
Laser Safety Guidelines for understanding the dangers of lasers and the importance of working with them safely... |
Technology Research News
January 26, 2005 |
Plastic Records Infrared Light Researchers have extended the sensitivity of photorefractive polymers so that they can be used at the common infrared communications frequency of 1550 nanometers. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006
Brian R. Santo |
Acronym Addiction When you live on the cutting edge of technology, there are, literally, no words to describe it. Instead we have acronyms. Lots and lots of acronyms. ABT... BEOL... CSP... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
Saswato R. Das |
Power Tool for Making Nanoscale Objects A physics team uses a special electron microscope to carve tiny gold, silver, and aluminum structures a few nanometers across. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
Glenn Zorpette |
Lighter, Brighter Displays Electrowetting combines the best of LCD and E Ink. The Korean technology colossus Samsung will be the first to market a display based on electrowetting. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2007
Willie D. Jones |
You Tell Us: Is It a Mirage or Is It Holographic Storage? The idea of using holograms to store data on computers has tantalized engineers since the 1960s, and now it finally looks like it's going to market. |
Scientific American
April 18, 2005
Kauffmann & van den Bosch |
CT Scan for Molecules Producing 3-d images of electron orbitals. |
Technology Research News
January 1, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility. |
Technology Research News
September 24, 2003 |
Teamed lasers make smaller spots Researchers from Boston University have tapped the properties of polarization in order to focus a laser beam more tightly in space. The method could be used to scan objects in finer detail and to make finer features in processes like rapid prototyping and photolithography. |
National Defense
September 2012
Eric Beidel |
Contractor Hits 'Print,' And Creates Drone The 3-D printing process, also known as additive layer manufacturing, is based on the principles of rapid prototyping and creates products out of fine powder metal (such as titanium, stainless steel and aluminum), nylon or carbon-reinforced plastics. |
Chemistry World
November 22, 2012
Jon Cartwright |
Magnesium oxide might be liquid in super-Earths There may be more planets outside our solar system with protective magnetic fields than previously thought. That's the implication of a US study, which has demonstrated that the common planetary mineral magnesium oxide turns into a metallic liquid at high pressure. |
Technology Research News
June 1, 2005 |
Computer Displays: Points of Light Different types of displays use different means to produce and control pixels. CRT, LCD, and plasma technologies manipulate light electronically. Another way is through micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS). |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Richard Stevenson |
Tapping the Power of 100 Suns Concentrated solar power will keep future armies on the march |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
3d Television a Step Closer to Reality Watching televisions in 3D could be a reality in future thanks to a polymer that allows holograms to be recorded and erased on a single display. |
National Defense
April 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Making Metals Lighter, But Stronger Than Steel The military is looking for ways to engineer lighter materials that off the same protective qualities of steel and iron. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
A Nanometer-Scale Etch A Sketch Scientists use a microscope to write and erase nanowires. |
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003 |
Electricity loosens tiny bits Researchers have found a way to make flipping small bits easier. The electrically-assisted magnetization reversal process weakens the magnetization of a ferromagnetic semiconductor's magnetization by applying a pinpoint electric field, making the magnetization of individual bits easier to flip. |
Wired
July 2001 |
Electric Word Freeze-O-Matic... Liquid Audio... Welcome To The Cubicle Dome... Flesh For Fantasy... Beam Therapy... Bugs That Scale... Going With The Flow... |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2014
Stephen McCarthy |
Multiferroic material breaks symmetry with layers Scientists have made a material capable of both piezoelectric and ferromagnetic behavior. The discovery opens up the possibility of a new class of polarizable and magnetic compounds, and could lead to better devices for storing electronic information. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2010
Neil Savage |
The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology |
Technology Research News
January 15, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Device demos terabit storage Researchers from Tohoku University, the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science, and Pioneer Corporation in Japan have found a way to store huge amounts of data after figuring out how to make many tiny, inverted dots in a thin film of metal and determining how to sense the state of each dot. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Hadjipanayis & Gabay |
The Incredible Pull of Nanocomposite Magnets Nanotechnology could make rare earth magnets even stronger. |
Technology Research News
October 20, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Wide laser makes simple tweezers Much of medical diagnostics and biomedical research involves trapping, manipulating and sorting individual cells and like-sized bits of matter. A recently demonstrated way of manipulating cells promises to be less expensive than laser tweezers. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 57
David Bradley |
Smart Materials Self Repair Dumb materials succumb to rust, but smart materials might be able to heal themselves, thanks to researchers in Europe. |
Technology Research News
May 18, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter. |
