In the past decade, the state of the art Si-based electronics has gone from devices at or above 100 nm to the realm of 30 nm and below, with a defined pathway to devices, logic and memory, of about 15 nm. In addition, as devices have scaled below a gate length of about 100 nm performance per...

This talk is an overview of the Battery 500 project, an interdisciplinary consortium lead by IBM Research to develop a lithium air battery that aims to increase the range of electrovehicles to 500 miles. Particular emphasis will be given to some of the key issues that have hampered the...

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