The metal wire in the biomedical sector
Metal wire and bars, when used for biomedical applications, must own specific mechanical and hypoallergenic characteristics. They have then developed suitable alloys that do not deteriorate in time and avoid rejection phenomena by…
All the rules of Horizon 2020
Revised in view of higher simplicity and to streamline the bureaucratic processes that in the past made tortuous the access to European calls, the rules and the procedures of the new Horizon 2020…
LiFi, the optical equivalent of WiFi
Light Fidelity is a rising technology of wireless data communication that uses light pulses, unlike the radiofrequency signals of the classical WiFi. In detail, the researchers of the Edinburgh University, who first studied…
An optical switch constituted by a single atom
The researchers of the Wien Universität Technische, in Austria, have actually transformed an optical fibre cable into a “laboratory” for quantum experimentations, with the target of creating, to manipulate light, the smallest possible…
Advances in nano-optics
The new frontier of Information Technology is the confinement of single light particles in nanostructures to control their movements in the integrated circuits of the future: actually, the possibility of implementing chips where,…
Nanofibres with high thermal conductivity
Polymers generally operate as thermal insulators, but with a process of electro-polymerization the researchers of the Georgia Institute of Technology have obtained some arrays of polymer nanofibres able to conduct heat 20 times…
Nanotechnlogies at the service of photovoltaic
When a technology becomes consolidated with large-scale productions, this is generally the optimization time, with researches aimed at both obtaining better efficiency and at granting the same results with the use of fewer…
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Self-assembling of silicon micro-wires
The application potentialities of silicon micro-wires are not completely known, yet, and if these structures might be obtained through repeatable and controllable processes, we would pave the way to technological innovations that are…
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PHOTON PROCESSORS IN THE FUTURE OF COMPUTERS
The researchers of the Physics Department of La Sapienza in Rome, of the Institute for photonics and nanotechnologies of the National Research Council (Ifn-Cnr) and of Milan Polytechnics have implemented what can be…
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Automotive fibre
Plastic Optical Fibres (POF, Plastic Optical Fiber) have been used by the automotive industry since 1998, after that they had been successfully introduced by Mercedes Benz in its top models as basis for…
