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Images recorded in the electron microscope showing the formation of a nickel silicide (NiSi2) nanoparticle (coloured yellow) in a silicon nanowire

New technique to synthesise nanostructured nanowires

16 Jul 2015

Researchers have developed a new method for growing ‘hybrid’ crystals at the nanoscale, in which quantum dots – essentially nanoscale semiconductors...

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥radiation pattern from a dipole antenna showing symmetry breaking of the electric field

New understanding of electromagnetism could enable ‘antennas on a chip’

09 Apr 2015

New understanding of the nature of electromagnetism could lead to antennas small enough to fit on computer chips – the ‘last frontier’ of...

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Circuit board

̽»¨Ö±²¥next generation of computing

04 Jul 2011

Progress in electronics has relied heavily on reducing the size of the transistor to create small, powerful computers. Now spintronics, hailed as the...

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Sir Richard Friend and David Harding

Physics of sustainability programme launched

24 Mar 2011

Funded by a £20 million donation from David Harding, the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability aims to address some of the major...

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Dr Andrea Ferrari

Royal Society award given to Cambridge academic

21 Jun 2010

̽»¨Ö±²¥Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has recognised the work of Dr Andrea Ferrari at the Department of Engineering with one of...

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Electronic reader

Plastic Logic: from innovation to impact

01 Aug 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the fascinating story behind the development of a new type of electronic...

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Quantum

Behaviour of building block of nature could lead to computer revolution

31 Jul 2009

A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles...

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King's College Cambridge

Cambridge academics elected as Fellows of the Royal Society

15 May 2009

Nine of the 44 new Royal Society Fellows announced today are Cambridge academics. Their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society recognises...

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LED

‘Magic’ lights to slash household electricity use

28 Jan 2009

A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% in five years time, thanks to research at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥.

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CERN

One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics

16 Jul 2008

Scientists at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature super-conductivity...

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Science award boosts physics research at Cambridge

21 Dec 2006

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is to form one third of a new £6 million research collaboration looking at quantum physics.

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