Sentences with phrase «as silicon transistors»

As silicon transistors are scaled down, Franklin says, the gate becomes less effective at controlling the current.

Not exact matches

Natelson's research involves complicated electron flow through single - molecule transistors, as well as organic semiconductors — carbon - based materials that are intended to replace silicon transistors in some electronic devices.

The computer's performance has generally been improved through upgrades in digital semiconductor performance: shrinking the size of the semiconductor's transistors to ramp up transaction speed, packing more of them onto the chip to increase processing power, and even substituting silicon with compounds such as gallium arsenide or indium phosphide, which allow electrons to move at a higher velocity.

But isn't the conventional silicon transistor doomed by fabrication problems as sizes shrink?

You could use them the same way as you would a silicon transistor but with higher performance — like silicon transistor chips.

Although circuits made with single - walled carbon nanotube are expected to be more energy - efficient than silicon ones in future, their drawbacks in field - effect transistors, such as high power dissipation and less stability, currently limit their applications in printed electronics, according to Dodabalapur.

In 1965, three years before he founded the Intel Corporation, Moore was merely, modestly suggesting that within a decade, by 1975, we would be able to combine as many as 65,000 transistors on a single wafer of silicon.

As transistors get smaller and smaller, occupying ever - tinier regions of a silicon chip, it becomes increasingly likely that any given region (barely tens of nanometers across) may have too many or too few dopant atoms.

Instead of relying on mechanical manipulations, Majumdar and his colleagues speculated that silicon transistors might electrically control ions dissolved in fluids as well as they could electrons.

For decades the electronics industry has hummed along according to what is known as Moore's law: As technology progresses and circuitry shrinks, the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip doubles every two years or sas Moore's law: As technology progresses and circuitry shrinks, the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip doubles every two years or sAs technology progresses and circuitry shrinks, the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip doubles every two years or so.

Heat, too, is causing headaches: As engineers pack transistors closer and closer together, the heat they generate threatens to warp the silicon wafer.

A lone atom of phosphorus embedded in a sheet of silicon has been made to act as a transistor.

We need better performing transistors as we continue down - scaling, and transistors based on silicon won't give us improvements anymore,» said Heinz Schmid, a researcher with IBM Research GmbH at Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland and the lead author on the paper.

Moore's Law keeps defying the pessimists because a brigade of materials scientists continues to find ways of stretching today's silicon transistor technology even as they dig into alternatives

The researchers used the single layer of silicon atoms as the channel in a field - effect transistor, which shuttles charge from the source to the drain electrodes (Nat.

The performance of these systems is excellent: (i) the transistors have characteristics (e.g., on and off currents, etc.) that are comparable to, or better than, those of similar devices fabricated on rigid silicon supports by using conventional photolithographic methods, and (ii) the optical characteristics (e.g., switching time, contrast ratio, etc.) of the resulting displays are as good as those of low - resolution signs that use similar electronic inks and direct - drive dressing schemes.

Transistor count alone can't be used to judge «power» as such (though that's what Moore's Law is based on) but it's safe to say there'd need to be a huge amount of efficiency gains to produce anything like the same amount of processing power as the 360 with that silicon budget.»