3D NAND hits four bits per cell

Storage specialist Western Digital has developed a 3D NAND flash memory capable of storing 4bit/cell. This allows a 64 l...

Jul 27, 2017

Two-dimensional materials that can multitask

Naturally produced patterned monolayers have been discovered by scientists at Vanderbilt University and the Chinese Acad...

Jul 26, 2017

High temperature superconductivity in B-doped Q-carbon

A novel, boron-doped Q-carbon material is said to significantly increase the temperature at which carbon-based materials...

Jul 26, 2017

Chemical route towards graphene electronic devices

Electronic components, such as diodes and tunnel barriers, can be incorporated into single graphene wires – or nanoribbo...

Jul 26, 2017

First bio-compatible ion current battery

Engineers at the University of Maryland claim to have invented a bio-compatible battery which produces the same kind of ...

Jul 25, 2017

The next frontier in mesh networking

At a recent meeting of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) it was announced that Bluetooth technology will now be...

Jul 25, 2017

Photonics funded £31million from EPSRC

A set of Prosperity Partnerships announced by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Ind...

Jul 25, 2017

Power source problem solved for EUV

Extreme ultraviolet lithography – or EUV – has been regarded as the saviour of semiconductor manufacturing for more than...

Jul 25, 2017

Packaged MEMS microphones with a 70dB signal-to-noise ratio

Infineon Technologies is entering the packaged silicon microphone market to address the need for high performance, low n...

Jul 25, 2017

Breakthrough in spin wave data processing

A novel method for the simultaneous propagation of spin wave signals in multiple directions at the same frequency withou...

Jul 24, 2017