Tag Archives: organic

DNA Computing: Advances in organic circuits

Impact: Computer Power    June 11, 2011
DNA logic gate components……Credit: Royal Publishing Society Let’s come at computers from a different angle for a moment. An alien species lands on earth. Their spaceship doesn’t look like a spaceship. It looks like a very large blob, of sorts. It’s a blob because the whole thing is organic, not a scrap of metal on [...]
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A new use for nanowires: E-skin (electronic skin)

News: Nanotechnology    October 6, 2010
What’s in a word? Call it a membrane and most people associate it with something scientific. Call it skin and there are definite human associations. So when the engineers at the University of California Berkeley (USA) developed a pressure sensitive electronic material made of nanowires, is it a membrane or skin? They’d like to call [...]
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A first: Computer display ready to roll (up)

News: Computer Power    May 27, 2010
Sony rollable OLED display                 Credit: Sony Corporation Here’s another innovation making the transition from science fiction to commercial reality: A digital display that can roll up like paper. Sony’s newly developed 4.1 inch (10 cm) rollable OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) is only 80 micrometers thick – [...]
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