TECH NEWS: IT, TECHNOLOGY

Sunday, 05 February 2012 12:30

Nano Tech

When a photon hits the stack of carbon nanotubes generated by an electron-pairs of holes. The electron and hole are separated at the interface between carbon nanotubes in bundles. Both steps are essential for power to be generated. Photo: J. Crochet, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Bundles of nanotubes does the trick for the efficiency of thin film solar cells. The claim U.S. researchers. The goal is photovoltaics of graphene and carbon nanotubes.

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Silicon challenger is shrinking transistor

Molybdensdisulfid can provide smaller and more energy efficient than silicon transistors. The claim Swiss researchers. Now they have made the first chip.
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World's smallest V12 engine

A Spanish-precision mechanics have built an engine that is said to be the world's smallest V12 with engine capacity 12 cc.
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Stem cells and nanofibres save the lives of cancer

Your own stem cells can serve as a building material to the body's own parts. At the Karolinska Hospital, two patients so far rescued at life with the new method.

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RFID wallet under the skin

Automation Region are looking for volunteers for a project with implanted RFID tags as a new wallet ... technically, it is no joke. The picture shows the RFID tag Verichip, approved in the U.S. for implants in humans. Verichip was promoted earlier by Verichip Corporation, now a Positive ID.

During the skin of the arm is a chip that will let you pay in shops and on buses. It is one of this year's April Fool, but a fully viable idea.

The Automation Region, a regional cooperation oriented organization, which in a newsletter and on its website looking for volunteers for a project with so-called RFID tags which are worn on the body.

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