Sentences with phrase «for transistors»

The new method could yield improved and new classes of electronic and optoelectronic devices, including applications for superfast and ultra-efficient semiconductors for transistors in computers and smart devices, as well as advanced LEDs and lasers.
Applications include superfast and ultra-efficient semiconductors for transistors in computers and smart devices, and advanced LEDs and lasers.
With no natural energy band - gap, however, graphene's superfast conductance can't be switched off, a serious drawback for transistors and other electronic devices.
The computer industry is exploring technologies that in essence are drop - in replacements for transistors with improved characteristics: different designs such as the fin FET, a 3 - D rather than a flat configuration on a computer chip, Aidun said.
Although naphthalene - bithiophene has been used for transistors and other applications since its discovery, this is the first time it has been converted for use in energy storage.
And instead of using conventional silicon wafers for transistors and diodes, they used silicon layers only 50 nanometers thick, enabling the components to dissolve in a couple of weeks.
The same holds for the transistors and circuits in a computer.
In order for a transistor to work, it must be able to turn a flow of electrons on and off, to generate a pattern of ones and zeros, instructing a device on how to carry out a set of computations.
Once Sony found a foothold for the transistor in small, cheap, low - power devices, it was able to improve the technology in the decades and years ahead until it was eventually making the TVs and radios that RCA had wanted to sell.
In the announcements that pre orders are now available for Transistor, Supergiant Games clearly noted that while the Playstation 4 and PC versions have identical content there are platform specific features.
==== And in the extreme case, Nobel prize winners: William Shockley shared a Nobel for the transistor, and in later years, went off into eugenics.
We're reading Ars, for transistor density's sake!

Not exact matches

The invention of the transistor, for example, wasn't simply a moment of personal genius from three brilliant scientists.
For decades, we lived within Moore's Law, which predicted that the number of transistors packed into a processor would double every two years, providing a steady gallop of technology improvement.
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.
The transistor, for example, was first brought to market in 1952, when it was used in hearing aids.
In my teens I used some of those transistors they sold to build a device that allowed me and a friend to make long - distance phone calls for free, even though we didn't really have anyone to call.
Frantz Fanon was the first to draw attention to the fact that the transistor receiver was one of the most important weapons in the Third World's fight for freedom.
«Our transistors are designed for simple manufacturing.
It uses a MOSFET transistor for well - regulated output and the dual voltage compatibility lets you set it up to your workshop conditions.
This helped the group develop a quantum theory of heat loss that may reveal the best materials for tiny transistors.
The technique could be a breakthrough for computers that use subatomic particles, rather than transistors, to store and process information.
For every bit of data it stores, SRAM uses six transistors.
The research could help guide selection of materials for use in future molecular - size transistors.
Nearly all mass market devices rely on microchips of the chemical element silicon, on which manufacturers etch ever smaller transistors — essentially electrical switches that can be used to fashion logic circuits for computers.
All the transistors worked, even 8 months after production — an impressive feat for organic electronics, which often degrade quickly.
«The transistor laser has those plus a third output — a coherent photon beam,» which can be transmitted by fiber - optic line for speed - of - light processing.
Job Responsibilities: My position involves the detailed design of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) custom circuits for microprocessors at the transistor level.
For example, the type of computing logic the team used requires more transistors than other approaches, largely wiping out gains from more closely packing the components.
A team working on electronics for a space - based camera has tested ordinary transistors at ultra-low temperatures, and they passed with flying colours
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.
This will help physicists and device engineers to design better quantum capacitors, an array of subatomic power storage components capable to keep high energy densities, for instance, in batteries, and vertical transistors, leading to next - generation optoelectronics with lower power consumption and dissipation of heat (cold devices), and better performance.
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.
What you get is a corannulene (C20H10), a molecule that, according to a just - published study conducted with SISSA's collaboration, could be an important component of future «molecular circuits,» that is, circuits miniaturized to the size of molecules, to be used for various kinds of electronic devices (transistors, diodes, etc.).
«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.
Based on graphene field - effect transistors, the flexible devices open up new possibilities for the development of functional implants and interfaces.
Addressing these challenges, Jiangwei Liu, from Japan's National Institute for Materials Sciences, and his colleagues describe new work developing diamond - based transistors this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing.
For example, we can analyze the transistors based upon their activity during various games (left) or which transistors are necessary for a given game to functiFor example, we can analyze the transistors based upon their activity during various games (left) or which transistors are necessary for a given game to functifor a given game to function.
This development is promising for new electronic devices that interact with light, such as new kinds of transistors, superconducting switches and gas sensors.
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.
For the teams that designed the atom bomb, radar, even Bell Labs» transistor, one common factor was a selection of superstars from different scientific backgrounds.
Electrical engineers Joseph Lyding and Mark Hersam of the University of Illinois developed a technique for plucking single hydrogen atoms from a silicon sheet, which may lead to a millionfold increase in the number of transistors that can be packed onto a chip.
In a step toward making display screens out of a material not too different from garbage bags, researchers for the first time have got plastic transistors and glowing diodes to work together.
A surge of research in the last few years on the physics of controlling the flow of heat packets has yielded designs for heat - based diodes, transistors and logic gates that perform AND, OR and NOT operations.
This «gain» in current prevents signals from decaying as they travel, and that's a key reason why transistors are crucial for the complex circuits of electronics.
There is a need for new material systems that can be used to make field - effect transistors sensors that work at high temperatures.
«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.
For example, it suggests that graphene could be used to make a transistor - like device in a superconducting circuit, and that its superconductivity could be incorporated into molecular electronics.
UNIST announced a method for the mass production of boron / nitrogen co-doped graphene nanoplatelets, which led to the fabrication of a graphene - based field - effect transistor (FET) with semiconducting nature.
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