Technology Research Advances of 2004

January 3, 2005 | Source: Technology Research News

The profusion of technology research in 2004 includes a nanowire-based biochip developed by Harvard University researchers that detects single viruses, fault-tolerant chip design for nanowire logic circuits, a software program for designing computer chips made from DNA-assembled carbon nanotubes, and a scheme for storing light pulses using a photonic crystal that could make possible blazingly fast all-optical computer chips, quantum computers and quantum communications systems.