Researchers studying
the behavior of nanoscale materials at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have uncovered remarkable behavior that could advance microprocessors beyond today's silicon - based chips.
Not exact matches
The confined electronic structure
of nanoscale materials has increasingly been shown to induce
behavior quite distinct from that
of bulk analogs.
«A classical framework doesn't apply to this complex system,» said Sankaranarayanan, who helped to create complex models
of the perovskite's
behavior at Argonne's Center for
Nanoscale Materials and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, both DOE Office
of Science User Facilities.
The DSI tests allowed the team to target small volumes
of material in specific locations on the structure and determine variations in the micro - /
nanoscale mechanical
behavior at different stages
of fatigue life.
Analytical tests from Vanderbilt's Institute
of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Nashville, TN, as well as the University
of New Mexico's Center for High Technology
Materials in Albuquerque, NM and Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy Team (http://quantumdot.lanl.gov) confirmed that the final products had the desired shape, composition and
behavior by analyzing individual quantum dots at the atomic level.