tag: ETH Zurich

System Bits: May 13
By Ann Mutschler - 13 May, 2014 - Comments: 0

Bringing hyperbolic metamaterials closer to reality Purdue Researchers have taken a step toward practical applications for hyperbolic metamaterials, which are ultra-thin crystalline films that could bring optical advances for microscopes, quantum computers and high-performance solar cells. Optical metamaterials harness clouds of electrons called surface plasmons to manipulate and control li... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: April 22
By Ann Mutschler - 22 Apr, 2014 - Comments: 0

Plasmonics could improve solar performance, data storage According to researchers at Purdue University, plasmonic metamaterials that operate at high temperatures could significantly improve solar cell performance and make advanced computer data storage technology possible that uses heat to record information on a magnetic disk. These materials could make it possible to harness clouds of ele... » read more

System Bits: March 11
By Ann Mutschler - 11 Mar, 2014 - Comments: 0

Colored diamonds: a superconductor’s best friend Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and UCLA have figured out that colored diamonds can measure the tiny magnetic fields in high-temperature superconductors, providing a new tool to probe these much ballyhooed but poorly understood materials. Diamond sensors will give us m... » read more

System Bits: Jan. 14
By Ann Mutschler - 14 Jan, 2014 - Comments: 0

Fastest organic transistor Research teams from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Stanford University have worked together to produce what they believe are the world’s fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television screens and similar electronic devices. The researchers sa... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Nov. 12
By Brian Bailey - 12 Nov, 2013 - Comments: 0

Back To The Future In the hunt for sources of renewable energy, researchers at ETH Zurich have gone back to a 19th century discovery. Thermoelectric materials have the remarkable property that heating them creates a small electrical current. But enhancing this current to a level compatible with the needs of modern technologies has revealed an extraordinary challenge for scientists of the last ... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: Sept. 3
By Ann Mutschler - 03 Sep, 2013 - Comments: 0

Flexible, organic solar cells Work by a team of chemical engineers at Penn State and Rice University may lead to a new class of inexpensive organic solar cells. If solar cells could be made as easily as posters or newspapers are printed, sheets of organic solar cells could be made, representing a fundamental shift in the way solar cells are made, the researchers said. Today, most solar c... » read more

System Bits: August 20
By Ann Mutschler - 20 Aug, 2013 - Comments: 0

RF jammer technology To thwart electronic warfare technology, a research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is developing a new generation of advanced radio frequency (RF) jammer technology as part of a project known as Angry Kitten by using commercial electronics, custom hardware development, novel machine-learning software and a unique test bed to evaluate unprecedented level... » read more

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