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The fourth element of eletrical engineering

This month there is an article on the Memristor in IEEE spectrum. Anyone who knows anything about electronics is familiar with the holy trinity of electrical engineering: the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor. In 1971, Leon Chua of UC Berkeley, predicted that there should be a fourth element: a memory resistor, or memristor. But no one knew how to build one. 37 years later, electronics have finally gotten small enough to create this device. Hewlett-Packard researchers revealed in the journal Nature (subscription required) that it was hiding within the electrical characteristics of nano-scale devices.

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 7:42 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Graphene the soul of a new machine???

Earlier this week the Purdue Computer and Electrical Engineering school had their semi-annual meeting in Dallas. At this presentation Professor Jim Cooper of the Birck NanoTechnology Center talked about Graphene.

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Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 8:13 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Nano train leaving the station!

NewScientist.com has an article and picture of a nanoscale "monorail" that can move along a nanotube track. It has carried a gold nugget a distance of 0.5 micrometers.  The new device developed by researchers in Europe is made from two nanotubes nested like the parts of a telescope.

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Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:35 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Meaning of Global

I've been working with a large manufacturing company that has operated internationally for a very long time. This company has been working towards being truly global across all lines of business, including functional areas, for many years. Some areas of the business have succeeded in functioning global but others have only recently become aware of the frame of reference change required for their area of the business to operate as a global function.

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Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:53 PM by Terry White | 2 Comments

Another nanotech roadmap

Foresight Nanotech Institute, a leading nanotechnology think tank, and Battelle, a leading global research and development organization, have officially unveiled Productive Nanosystems: A Technology Roadmap.

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Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:56 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

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