Student Rebecca French has been awarded a €6,000 scholarship from the Cochlear UK Graeme Clark Scholarship Award, which will help to support her through university. Rebecca, 19, from Durham, is profoundly deaf, but was given the sensation of hearing from a cochlear implant at the age of 3 ½. The scholarship is a unique award open to Cochlear Nucleus implant recipients nationwide, which is awarded on the basis of academic achievement, as well as Cochlear’s ideals of leadership and humanity.
Existing communications and computer architecture are increasingly being limited by the pedestrian speed of electrons moving through wires, and the future of high-speed communication and computing is in optics, experts say. The Holy Grail of results would be "wireless interconnecting," which operates at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current technology. The new discovery, made by researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Iowa and Philipps University in Germany, has identified a way in which nanoscale devices based on gallium arsenide can respond to strong terahertz pulses for an extremely short period, controlling the electrical signal in a semiconductor. The research builds on previous findings for which OSU holds an issued patent.
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