Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, academics and students (both graduate and undergraduate) are invited to attend this symposium, held in conjunction with IEEE CNNA 2010 — the International Workshop on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and Applications, Feb. 3-5.
To register please visit http://memristor.ucmerced.edu
The 2010 symposium will cover:
Memristor technology updates
New device technologies (materials and fabrication)
Device ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
A press release from HRL Laboratories discusses their recent work in developing neuromorphic electronics which emulate the functioning of the human brain by using artificial synapses formed from nanoscale junctions. This development is in conjunction with work done by HPLabs on memristive neural networks supported by DARPA's SyNAPSE project.
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
The Europeon Union have recently supported the creation of a project called VERSATILE which is focusing on the examination of crossbar architectures for the creation of non-volatile memory. Crossbar architectures have been applied to the creation of programmable logic devices in the past few decades but only recently have been proposed at the nanometer level by ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Basic concepts of a "space elevator" predate the development of rocket-based space travel but have always lacked a practical system or materials to achieve the objective. Recently, as reported in a TimesOnline article, a team of British scientists led by Alan Windle have developed a process for manufacturing carbon nanotube ribbons which ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Although innovative, none of the applications of nanomaterials to energy production devices such as solar panels and fuel cells go so far as to violate the laws of physics. However, a company called Blacklight Power is developing a system based on a new theory of the hydrogen atom which is in conflict with conventional quantum ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Last month a symposium was held at UC Berkeley on a new type of nanoscale circuit element called the memristor which could have a big impact in areas such as non-volatile memory and neuromorphic computing. Youtube has video of the conference available here and a six minute primer available here.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
An article in the current issue of Nanotechnology Law and Business (available free: here), spun-off from an April post here on nanoREV explores the patent challenges of graphene based inventions. While several companies are now jumping on the graphene bandwagon, especially for its promising uses in electronics, each is hoping to be the ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
The memristor was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top inventions of 2008 and could revolutionize non-volatile memory by replacing transistor based memory cells with a new type of nanoscale resistance switch. In addition, there has been some speculation that the memristor may be a key ingredient to a ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
In the article "Alternative Nanoelectronics: A Comparative Analysis," published in the December 2006 article of Nanotechnology Law and Business, D-Wave was noted as one of the top four companies producing new paradigms of electronics in the 21st century with their focus being on quantum computing. In the last several months D-Wave has taken ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Advancements in both neuroscience and microelectronics over the past decades has brought about new ways for computer interfacing with the human brain. Neuroscience has brought about enhanced understanding of the working of the brain via electroencephalography and has applied such understanding to neuroprothetics offering various ways of repairing damage caused by stroke or trauma. Meanwhile, microelectronics continues ...
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