Sentences with phrase «converts electric signals»

In modern cell phones, neodymium is a key ingredient in the wafer - thin permanent magnet that converts electric signals to sound waves in speakers and headsets.

By the integration of smallest carbon nanotubes into a nanostructured waveguide, they have developed a compact miniaturized switching element that converts electric signals into clearly defined optical signals.

Headphones convert electric signals to sound; a microphone converts sound to electric signals.

Not exact matches

A plastic optical fiber collects the emitted light, which is converted into an electric signal that appears as an image on a computer screen, allowing scientists to track cells without limiting the rats» mobility.

Schematic of the detector: the metamaterial couples the incident light to the semiconductor, and then it can be converted into an electric signal.

Surface acoustic wave devices transmit a high - frequency signal by converting electric energy to acoustic energy.

This chip, called Rhea, converts the electric charge created by a passing proton into a digital signal with additional logic to provide accurate timing (to one hundredth of one millionth of a second) while preventing erroneous signals being recorded.

When hooked up to an electronic sensor, the pad converts signals from the sensor into small pulses of electric current across the grid, which the tongue «reads» as a pattern of tingles.

To overcome this so - called von Neumann bottleneck, it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor, as the optical signals have to be converted into electric signals again.