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PNNL silicon sponge delivers high capacity with long cycle life as Li-ion anode material

2014-07-09 13:30:34| Green Car Congress

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ADM buying Capri Sun parent; Corn avalanche coming; Is Silicon Valley funding the wrong startups?

2014-07-08 10:58:58| Agriculture - Topix.net

I, Jlantzy [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons Archer Daniels Midland is set to buy the Swiss company WILD Flavors for about $3 billion, the largest acquisition in ADM's history.

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Move Over, Silicon, There's A New Circuit In Town

2014-06-26 10:52:55| rfglobalnet Home Page

When it comes to electronics, silicon will now have to share the spotlight. In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering describe how they have overcome a major issue in carbon nanotube technology by developing a flexible, energy-efficient hybrid circuit combining carbon nanotube thin film transistors with other thin film transistors.

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The vacuum tube strikes back: NASAs tiny 460GHz vacuum transistor that could one day replace silicon FETs

2014-06-24 14:12:20| Extremetech

Way back in the salad days of digital computing (the 1940s and '50s), computers were made of vacuum tubes -- big, hot, clunky devices that, when you got right down to it, were essentially glorified light bulbs. This is why early computers like the ENIAC weighed more than 27 tons and consumed more power than a small town. Later, obviously, vacuum tubes would be replaced by probably the greatest invention of all time -- the solid-state transistor -- which would allow for the creation of smaller, faster, cheaper, and more reliable computers. Fast forward to 2014, though, and the humble CMOS field-effect transistor (FET) is starting to show its age. We've pretty much hit the limit on shrinking silicon transistors any further, and they can't operate at speeds much faster than a few gigahertz. Which is why NASA's Ames Research Center is going back to the future with its new vacuum transistor -- a nanometer-scale vacuum tube that, in early testing, has reached speeds of up to 460GHz.

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Biz Break: Oracle and Google keep Silicon Valley acquisition spree rolling, with more expected

2014-06-24 04:23:00| IT Services - Topix.net

The Oracle logo is displayed on the exterior of the Oracle headquarters on June 19, 2014 in Redwood City, California.

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