Device News 01.15.12

Nanowires

• Wires only 4 atoms wide• Nanowires exhibit strong pizoelectric effects in 3D•

• Reconfigurable nanowire based transitors

Reconfigurable nanowire transistor

Superconducting nanowhisker cloth

Nanolithography for 4 nm chip features

a) nanoimprint template and b) b) imprint and pattern transfer into

silicon.

Metal assisted chemical etching

Terahertz pulse increases electron density 1000-fold

Exciton Avalanche

Quantum dots in bulk from carbon fiber

IBM's atomic scale magnetic memory

Graphene Mixers

Energy storage membrane outstrips batteries

Large Scale Energy Storage

• Zinc-air– 3x Li-ion enengy for hald the cost.

• Sodium-ion– Thousands of discharge cycles with no loss of capacity

• Lithium-ion– Proven technology that can scale but costly

• Iron-copper nanoparticles• Sodium sulfur

– In use (Texas)• Lead Acid

Smartphone Platform Market Share

Mobile Content Usage

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