Sentences with phrase «in nanoscale devices»

The effect now found in the two - dimensional magnetic structures comes with the promise that it will be of practical use in nanoscale devices, such as magnetic nanomotors, actuators, or sensors.

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The Central New York hub will be part of the state university system's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, focusing on innovations in the film industry and other sectors, such as medical devices and energy.

He thinks the motor will eventually pump fluids through minuscule lab - on - a-chip devices that could perform diagnostic tests and turn gears in nanoscale electric circuits that detect chemicals.

Whereas in this experiment the scientists tested nanoscale environments at room temperature to about 1300 degrees Celsius (2372 degrees Fahrenheit), the HERMES could be useful for studying devices working across a wide range of temperatures, for example, electronics that operate under ambient conditions to vehicle catalysts that perform over 300 C / 600 F.

The discovery, to be published April 26 in the journal Nature, could have major implications for a wide range of applications that rely upon ferromagnetic materials, such as nanoscale memory, spintronic devices, and magnetic sensors.

While nanowriting could generate some interest among spies, Kubiak believes its real value will be in making numerous nanoscale electronic devices in a highly reproducible fashion.

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Manchester, U.K.; Imperial College, London; University of California San Diego; and the National Institute of Material Science (NIMS), Japan, have demonstrated that confined surface phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit unique metamaterial properties that enable novel nanoscale optical devices for use in optical communications, super-resolution imaging, and improved infrared cameras and detectors.

This may be used in small - scale thermal and electrical contacts and other nanoscale devices.

Such materials could be used in applications ranging from nanoscale electronics to biomedical devices.

Most likely, continued success with the compounds would more immediately result its use in nanoscale data storage devices.

According to some experts, the future of constructing devices at the nanoscale may lie in taking inspiration from the natural world.

«The way to create viable, profitable technology in the nanoscale regime, and build billions of copies of tiny devices, is to harness nature's properties of self - assembly,» says nanotechnologist Uzi Landman of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US.

The researchers designed the electrodes at the nanoscale — thousands of times thinner than the thickness of a human hair — to ensure the greatest surface area would be exposed to water, which increases the amount of hydrogen the device can produce and also stores more charge in the supercapacitor.

The origin of noise in nanoscale electronics is currently of much interest, and devices that operate using noise have been proposed.

So it's amazing, and it opens up a number of intriguing technological possibilities for real nanoscale devices in the future.

The results, published in Nanoscale, have profound implications for healthcare diagnostics and open up opportunities for producing pre-packaged microfluidic platform blood or urine testing devices.

The model, discussed in their publication appearing this week in Physics of Fluids, from AIP Publishing, could help researchers improve the quality of nanoscale printing and coating, important to everything from printing and coating tiny devices and structures to 3 - D printing machines and robots.

Parviz's research involves embedding nanoscale and microscale electronic devices in materials like paper or plastic.

BBCurrent trends in optical and X-ray metrology of advanced materials for nanoscale devices V (MATERIAL PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION)

Nadrian C. Seeman, of New York University in the U.S., is the founding father of structural DNA nanotechnology, a field that exploits the structural properties of DNA to use it as a raw material for the next generation of nanoscale circuits, sensors, and biomedical devices.

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, superparamagnetism may become a familiar term in the context of nanoscale electronics and devices.

Researchers hope to build and better characterize nanoscale molecular devices using DNA segments that can, for example, store and deliver drugs to targeted areas in the body.

It is based on boron nitride, a graphene - like 2D material, and was selected because of its capability to manipulate infrared light on extremely small length scales, which could be applied for the development of miniaturized chemical sensors or for heat management in nanoscale optoelectronic devices.

Abstract: Carbon nanotubes bound for electronics need to be as clean as possible to maximize their utility in next - generation nanoscale devices, and scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have found a way to remove contaminants from the nanotubes.

NNCI staff have expertise in many areas of fabrication and characterization of nanoscale materials and devices.

The results reported in Advanced Materials are works of art that may someday lead to nanoscale electronic devices, catalysts, molecular sieves and battery components, and on the macroscale could become high - load - bearing, impact - resistant components for buildings, cars, and aircraft.

«Optomechanics is an area of research in which extremely minute forces exerted by light (for example: radiation pressure, gradient force, electrostriction) are used to generate and control high - frequency mechanical vibrations of microscale and nanoscale devices,» explained Gaurav Bahl, an assistant professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois.

As for bismuth ferrite - based substances, we'll likely first see them in nanoscale data storage devices.