Macro-Weirdness: 'Quantum Microphone' Puts Naked-Eye Object in 2 Places at Once Mar 19, 2010
But the electronic circuitry can also be used to apply a voltage to the electrodes, so that the team can get the resonator to expand and contract at will ... In addition to its theoretical implications, the device could also find applications in the study of phonons that occur in nature, because a phonon that perturbs the resonator can be detected through the electronic circuit it is essentially a quantum microphone. (Scientific American)
News of order sends FSI stock up 13% Mar 18, 2010
stock shot up more than 13 percent Wednesday after the Chaska-based maker of electronic circuit manufacturing equipment reported an order. FSI (Nasdaq: FSII) said a major semiconductor manufacturer based in Asia had ordered one of its Orion single semiconductor wafer cleaning systems. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
UW-Madison physicists build basic quantum computing circuit Feb 27, 2010
"At some point in time you get to the limit where a single transistor that makes up an electronic circuit is one atom, and then you can no longer predict how the transistor will work with classical methods," explains UW-Madison physics professor Mark Saffman. "You have to use the physics that describes atoms quantum mechanics.". (EurekAlert!)
UN Warning: Tech Waste To Boom Soon Feb 24, 2010
The environmentally harmful practice of heating electronic circuit boards over coal-fired grills to leach out gold is widespread in both countries. The report called for regulations for collecting and managing electronic waste, and urged that technologies be transferred to the industrializing world to cope with such waste. (KSBW 8, CA)
In a Hurry? New Battery Recharging System Promises Quicker Turnaround for Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles Feb 19, 2010
The traction-drive system typically consists of a boost converter (which steps up voltage when the electronic circuit requires a higher operating voltage than the battery can provide alone), two inverters (which take direct current (DC) voltage and convert it to alternating current (AC)), and electric motors to provide motive power. has those same components but uses the inverters to charge the battery from an outlet, eliminating the need for a separate charger and enabling the car to recharge... (Scientific American)
High-Performance Microring Resonator Developed Feb 11, 2010
They have used a superconducting electronic circuit known as a Josephson phase qubit to. (Jan. (Science Daily)
Organic Transistor: Neuro-Inspired Computers? Jan 29, 2010
In the development of new information processing strategies, one approach consists in mimicking the way biological systems such as neuron networks operate to produce electronic circuits with new features ... A transistor, the basic building block of an electronic circuit, can be used as a simple switch -- it can then transmit, or not, a signal -- or instead offer numerous functionalities (amplification, modulation, encoding, etc. (Science Daily)
