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Photonics

The word ‘photonics’ is derived from the Greek word “photos” meaning light and Electronics; Photonics is the technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant...

September 28, 2014

Claytronics

Claytronics is an emerging field of engineering, drawing on nano technology and computer engineering. Claytronics or programmable matter refers to an assemblage of tiny components called claytronic atoms...

September 28, 2014

Spintronics

Spintronics meaning “spin transport electronics, is the field of basic and applied research in physics and engineering where the detection and manipulation of electron spin is studied for...

September 28, 2014

Sappan Wood

Sappan Wood or East Indian red wood is a multipurpose tree botanically known as Caesalpinia Sappan L. It is a natural dye yielding medicinal plant which grows up to...

September 28, 2014

Which is the fastest Computer Memory- Register or Cache?

In a computer, a register is the fastest memory. Register a part of the computer processor which is used to hold a computer instruction, perform mathematical operation as...

September 28, 2014

LaNiGa2

Researchers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have discovered a new class of unconventional superconductors. While in conventional superconductors the electrons in a Cooper pair (radical re-organisation of electrons...

September 28, 2014

Exabyte

In computer terminology, an Exabyte is used as a unit of information or computer storage and memory capacity. Exa – stands for SI prefix EXA and Byte is...

September 28, 2014

Sympathetic Haptics

Haptics is the process of simulating the sense of touch using computer. Sympathetic haptics is a method of transmitting the sense of touch to another person. This technology...

September 28, 2014

Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML)

Virtual reality is a virtual (artificially simulated) environment that is created with computer programs and software and presented to the user in such a way that the user gets...

September 28, 2014

Piezoelectricity

A definition of piezoelectricity – piezo being Greek for “subjected to pressure” – is the generation of the electrical polarisation of a material as a response to mechanical...

September 28, 2014

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