| Engineers perfecting carbon nanotubes for highly energy-efficient computing Posted: 14 Jun 2012 10:12 AM PDT Carbon nanotubes represent a significant departure from traditional silicon technologies and offer a promising path to solving the challenge of energy efficiency in computer circuits, but they aren't without challenges. Now, engineers have found ways around the challenges to produce the first full-wafer digital logic structures based on carbon nanotubes.  |
| Researchers 'heal' plasma-damaged semiconductor with treatment of hydrogen radicals Posted: 14 Jun 2012 05:26 AM PDT Researchers have developed and tested a new way to heal defects in gallium nitride (GaN), a highly promising material for a wide range of optical and high-power electronic devices.  |