Creating something from nothing

The innovation driver in emerging markets.





Editor's note: This article is by IBM Research - India Director, and IBM Chief Technologist for South Asia Ramesh Gopinath.  

Speaking with a journalist here in Bangalore,
recently, he quoted our website’s
statement: “IBM Research spends over USD $6 billion in research and
development, and has the most number of US patents to its credit.” He then

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Exfoliating wafer-scale graphene down to one layer

Editor’s note: This
article is by IBM Research scientists Jeehwan Kim and Hongsik Park, who work in carbon electronics.




Dr. Jeewhan Kim


Graphene
holds promise as the linchpin material for breakthroughs in everything from high-frequency
transistors and photo-detectors, to flexible electronics and biosensors because
of its supreme electrical, optical and mechanical properties. And
while

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Carbon nanotubes to keep up with Moore’s Law

Editor’s note: This article is by Dr. Hongsik
Park and Dr. Wilfried Haensch. Dr. Park is a research scientist at IBM’s Thomas
J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Haensch is a senior manager and
the Carbon Nanotube project leader at IBM Research.  





The end of silicon microprocessors is near.
Well, the end of continued performance improvements in silicon chips is near.
One of its promising

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Institute models the utility of the future

Editor’s note: This
article is by Dario Gil, IBM Research’s director of energy and natural
resources.



Lightning hits telephone poles. Wind knocks down power
lines. Mother Nature and power outages just seem to go hand-in-hand. IBM
Research wants to help energy and utility companies with technology that
predicts the future state of their assets – not just reacts to when they need repairing

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Shedding light on new frontiers of solar cell semiconductors

IBM sets world record
for photovoltaic energy conversion efficiency with earth-abundant materials



Editor’s note: This
article is by Teodor Todorov and David Mitzi, IBM Research photovoltaic scientists.







Beyond 11% Efficiency:
Characteristics of State-of-the-Art Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 Solar Cells  



by
David Mitzi, Teodor K. Todorov, Jiang Tang, Santanu Bag, Oki Gunawan, Tayfun

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Diagnosing psychosis with word analysis

Editor’s note: This article is by Dr. Guillermo
Cecchi of IBM Research’s Computational Biology Group. 



Analyzing the spoken words of people with mental
health disorders could significantly improve the accuracy of diagnosing mania
and schizophrenia. In a PLoS ONE paper, my Computational
Biology team collaborating with researchers and clinicians in Brazil showed
that quantifying and graphing

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IBM Mobile Systems Remote now on Android

Last year, IBM research scientist Patrick Bohrer released the Mobile Systems Remote on Apple’s App
Store. Now, the app – a remote that lets IT administrators manage IBM
BladeCenter or System x server – is available for Android
OS devices.




Patrick Bohrer


The following interview with Bohrer, a newly named IBM
Distinguished Engineer, discusses the remote’s new features, ideas for future

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Is the Internet reaching its limit?

Editor's note: This entry was written by Dr. Yaron Wolfsthal, Senior Manager of the System Technologies and Services at IBM Research – Haifa.

With billions of people, devices, and objects now connected to the Internet, it is quickly reaching its architectural limits -- and doesn’t have the ability to scale up to capacity for the vast amounts of new data being created. It's quickly becoming clear

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