Research

Carbon nanotubes could replace tungsten filaments

Could lead to low cost devices

Germanium-on-insulator is compatible with CMOS processing

Metal-on-silicon and resist-on-silicon structures are two-dimensionally chiral

Design can be applied to any potential quantum computing system

'Emergent' behaviours have begun to be recognised in a wide variety of systems

Almost half of company R&D money comes from foreign-owned companies, says DTI scoreboard

Semi-metallic devices operate at room temperature and could be made smaller than semiconductor Fets

Bristol University spinout wins funding for elliptic curve cryptography

Scotland creates early stage fund to encourage research to move from universities to SMEs