Sentences with phrase «transistor at»

From what I saw during my time with Transistor at this year's PAX East, Red may be silent, but she's anything but passive.

A team working on electronics for a space - based camera has tested ordinary transistors at ultra-low temperatures, and they passed with flying colours

«Most of the other studies created single - molecule devices that functioned as single - electron transistors at four degrees Kelvin, but for any real - world application, these devices need to work at room temperature.

3, For a next experiment you need a large copper plate, a very good conductor, mount 2 large high watt transistors at some distance from each other near the middle.

Not exact matches

Consider that regular microprocessors, the kind that lie at the heart of your iPhone or desktop computer, represent data in binary format, as a series of ones and zeros, via transistors that can be either «on» or «off.»

We are now approaching a point at which transistors are near atomic - scale, chips can't fit many more processors, and we're unhappy with having the same kinds of batteries in our devices.

The transistors on the processor inside your PC might be only about 100 atoms across, and improvements in manufacturing technology will keep them shrinking — at least, for the time being.

Unlike traditional computers, in which a silicon chip's transistors are either turned on or off, a qubit can be both at the same time.

In the seventies we moved from analog and transistor information generation to silicon chips that have developed in capabilities at an exponential rate since then.

Carbon nanotubes, one - tenth to one - hundredth the thickness of the smallest silicon transistors, remain functional at smaller scales.

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

Transistors are at the heart of the electronic circuits that make modern computers possible.

Holonyak's team at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign devised a transistor that is also an ultratiny laser, producing a narrow beam of light simultaneously with electrical current.

When I was at Bell Labs, I was surrounded by amazing organic chemists who could cook up all kinds of interesting polymers and organic molecules that we could use to build transistors.

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.

«Our technology, in terms of transistor density, is at the stage of silicon technology in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when the first microprocessors came out,» Jung says.

Job Responsibilities: My position involves the detailed design of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) custom circuits for microprocessors at the transistor level.

At the University of California, Berkeley, electrical engineer Ali Javey and his team attached a grid of nanowire transistors to a polyimide film placed atop a layer of rubber.

Other groups are looking at using a single organic molecule, strung between two electrodes, as a transistor.

l Carbon nanotubes: Cees Dekker and colleagues at Delft University of Technology made the first practical carbon nanotube transistor in 1998, leading to the first carbon nanotube computer (see main story).

And other Bell Labs researchers recently produced some of the smallest and fastest transistors ever, proving that for now, at least, Moore's Law marches on.

In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the Department of Physics and the Department of Electronics Engineering at the UAB, and from the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University (USA), studied the heating of small current lines placed on top of a silicon substrate, simulating the behavior of current transistors.

The computer also represents a victory for much - hyped carbon nanotube transistors, created in 1998 by Cees Dekker and his group at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Men with higher levels of DDE — a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT — and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were used in transistors and electronics, at 14 years old had higher rates of abnormal sperm.

«Since humans designed this processor from the transistor all the way up to the software, we know how it works at every level, and we have an intuition for what it means to «understand» the system,» Jonas says.

«Manufactured diamonds have a number of physical properties that make them very interesting to researchers working with transistors,» said Yasuo Koide, a professor and senior scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science leading the research group.

Eight days earlier, on 23 December 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, two of Shockley's colleagues at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, had unveiled a device that would change the world: the first transistor.

While computer chips are typically made of bulky carbon compounds, scientists at the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry at Oregon State University are looking to replace these bulky compounds with metal oxides, which would allow more transistors to fit on a chip.

«Single molecules can work as reproducible transistors — at room temperature: Researchers are first to reproducibly achieve the current blockade effect using atomically precise molecules at room temperature, a result that could lead to shrinking electrical components + boosting data storage + computing power.»

There is a need for new material systems that can be used to make field - effect transistors sensors that work at high temperatures.

The availability of transistors and circuits to operate at temperatures above 200 degrees Celsius is limited.

For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy - efficient transistors to power next - generation electronic devices.

But this method can damage the transistors on the panel, introduce tiny contaminants onto the screen, and create streaks across it, says Mahesh Samant, a chemist at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.

A first step in this field is for researchers to demonstrate that single molecules can function as reproducible circuit elements such as transistors or diodes that can easily operate at room temperature.

They range from highly efficient detectors for optical and wireless communications to transistors operating at very high speeds.

This week, in the Journal of Applied Physics, from AIP Publishing, a research team from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign present their findings regarding the optical and electrical bistability of a single transistor operated at room temperature.

The current switching was found to be due to the transistor base operation shift between stimulated and spontaneous electron - hole recombination process at the base - quantum - well.

Mitra and Wong are presenting a second paper at the conference showing how their team made some of the highest performance CNT transistors ever built.

Even at this stage, off - center spin coating produced transistors with a range of speeds much faster than those of previous organic semiconductors and comparable to the performance of the polysilicon materials used in today's high - end electronics.

The result is similar to what happens with transistors in electronic circuits, where a voltage applied at one electrode controls whether current can flow between two other electrodes.

As Americans huddled around the Philco Corporation's popular television sets in the late 1950s, it was only natural that the transistor - manufacturing giant would take a flier at the computing business.

Later, when I was thinking about graduate school, I read about a professor at Yale named Robert Wheeler, who was making tiny one - dimensional conductors and transistors — really skinny wires, basically.

Taking yet another tack, physicist Jan Hendrik Schn, with help from other researchers at Bell Laboratories, has refined a technique he recently described for making transistors out of a layer of small carbon molecules.

«Single - walled carbon nanotube field - effect transistors (FETs) have characteristics similar to polycrystalline silicon FETs, a thin film silicon transistor currently used to drive the pixels in organic light - emitting (OLED) displays,» said Mark Hersam, Dodabalapur's coworker and a professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.

These ultra-thin carbon filaments have high mobility, high transparency and electric conductivity, making them ideal for performing electronic tasks and making flexible electronic devices like thin film transistors, the on - off switches at the heart of digital electronic systems.

Shepard is part of a team of scientists from Columbia and IBM working under a $ 4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop field - effect transistors made of graphene, which is particularly good at amplifying weak signals at high frequencies.

Chemist Charles Lieber and co-workers at Harvard University created simple logic circuits incorporating up to six transistors by crisscrossing nanometer - wide wires of silicon and gallium - nitride, each junction of which forms a transistor.

His team passed the structure of the best candidate along to Zhenan Bao, a synthetic chemist at Stanford, and her colleagues, who spent six months making the chemical and then tested it in an experimental transistor.

It was roughly 15 years ago that carbon nanotubes were first fashioned into transistors, the on - off switches at the heart of digital electronic systems.

The doping solves two problems: It makes the material more conductive for applications like transistors and sensors, and at the same time improves the quality of the materials by passivating the defects called sulfur vacancies.