Sentences with phrase «just silicon»

Many people probably see MediaTek as a hardware / chip company, but hardware without software is just silicon.

I wonder if this work is something where Apple is doing a good job in helping your battery last all day through all sorts of things that they're doing besides just the silicon optimization and the software side.

The commentary soars when Harlin zeroes in on the minutiae of action filmmaking in difficult situations and the challenges of visualizing effects still just a silicon dream in a mainframe microchip, falling flat when he tries to narrate the impenetrable plot or futilely justifies non-existent motivations.

Cuomo appeared with GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt in July 2014 to announce the research and manufacturing program, which aims to use silicon carbide instead of just silicon, for specialty chips that handle electricity in devices like batteries and inverters.

Not exact matches

Each new wave of innovation — microwaves, defense, silicon, disk drives, PCs, Internet, therapeutics, — was like punctuated equilibrium — just when you thought the wave had run its course into stasis, there emerged a sudden shift and radical change into a new family of technology.

You could try using parchment (baking paper) on your silicon mat with a piping guide under it (I have one for download in my chocolate hazelnut macaron post), just until you get the hang of it.

«Stock contains minerals in a form the body can absorb easily — not just calcium but also magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and trace minerals.»

It is a silicon mat for your cookie sheet... I personally have never used one I just cook the bacon right on my cookie sheet.

Ohh... just a side not... This was the first time using my new silicon spiral Bundt pan.

If your countertops are granite or another surface that can handle high heat, then you can just place the silicon mats directly on your countertops.

The first time I tried making homemade raw vegan chocolate, I poured the melted chocolate into silicon molds, but they just didn't come out nicely.

I cooled for 2 minutes on the pan and tried to dip in the sugar but the cookie crumbled... maybe it was the silicon baking sheet... so instead I just sprinkled sugar on top.

I used silicon donut molds, which worked just right with this recipe.

I freeze the coconut milk in thin cubes in those silicon ice cube trays and just pop them out.

I just found your blog via the local parents email list (3000 parents in silicon valley) and shared it with my POIG (pediatric obesity interest group) email list of MDs, med students, PhDs, RDs and some community members in the SF Bay Area.

CHRISTINE STEWART - FITZGERALD: [inaudible] little cubes and it's silicon so basically you can kind of twist it and the thing is just you know that when they're once they're frozen they just pop out.

Just last month, SUNY Poly and GE announced they had processed the first silicon carbide wafers of their power electronics partnership.

But just as important, this process can be cost - effective and readily integrated with current widespread silicon semiconductor manufacturing techniques.

«It's a substantial cut to global energy consumption just by having a way to integrate lasers and photonic circuits with silicon.»

Ghim Wei Ho, a graduate student at Cambridge University, has created a garden of nanoflowers, lifelike bouquets of silicon carbide whose individual «blooms» span just one - thousandth the diameter of a human hair.

It uses just 1 per cent of the expensive silicon needed by a regular solar cell with the same output, and is just 5 per cent of the size (Nature Materials, DOI:...

«You can make a picture just of silicon.

As a drop cooled just a bit, the researchers pressed a flat piece of silicon dioxide on top to lift just a few flat layers of gallenene.

The only drawback is that its efficiency is just 1.2 per cent, a small fraction of what silicon is capable of.

Today, shrunk to just nanometres across and carved into beds of silicon, these electrical on - off switches mass in their billions on every single computer chip.

Silicene is a two - dimensional version of silicon just a single layer of atoms thick.

If the technology proves robust and reliable, it could produce solar cells at just one - fifth the cost of conventional silicon panels, says Russell Gaudiana, research chief at Konarka Technologies of Lowell, Massachusetts.

Physicist Harold Craighead, along with graduate student Rob Ilic and colleagues at Cornell University, fashioned a scale from a vibrating silicon rod just 1/50, 000 of an inch wide.

For the first time, silicon has been turned into a sheet just one atom thick.

Recently, materials scientist Darrell Schlom of Cornell University and his colleagues did just that, applying a several - atoms - thick layer of a compound called strontium titanate to silicon.

Just like a silicon - based AND gate that requires two electrical inputs, the bacterial logic gate will only produce an output when both its chemical inputs are present.

Although they are just a few microns tall, the wires — made of a metal, often silver, and coated in a thin layer of photovoltaic amorphous silicon — can substantially boost efficiency.

IBM has designed such a system of hermetically sealed, double - layered pipes of silicon and silicon oxide just.002 inches in diameter, illustrated here, which it hopes to make commercially available in a few years.

Yet, cadmium telluride commands only about 30 percent of the thin - film market, according to DoE statistics, compared with amorphous silicon cells (such as those produced by Sharp and ECD Ovonics), which account for more than 60 percent; CIGS cells make up just about 1 percent of this market.

«In this study, we showed that by just doing a rearrangement of the top electrode into a fractal geometry then we can stimulate the neurons within the open - circuit voltage of silicon photodiodes.»

Analyzing the light with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the researchers found the amount of elements heavier than helium to be less than one - thousandth that in the sun's neighborhood, and the ratio of carbon to silicon is just what would be expected of exploded population III stars.

«You can't put that on top of a sheet of flexible plastic or on a fully fabricated silicon cell — it will just melt.»

And on stage they had a demonstration — and they used silicon for the demonstration because it's easier to come by then the skin gel all that I have described — and they built an ear right on stage while we watched in 15 minutes; and I was just fascinated to see this happen and then I actually snapped a picture of it and uploaded it to my Twitter account, @SAeditorinchief, just because it was so neat to watch something like that emerge.

From robotic lawnmowers to intelligent lighting, washing machines and even car engines that self - diagnose faults, there's a silicon brain in just about every modern device you can think of.

A separate experiment measuring the atoms in a silicon sphere has calculated Planck's constant down to an uncertainty of 20 parts per billion, while the best watt measurement has achieved an uncertainty of just 19 parts per billion.

On silicon, which conducts heat very well, as most metals do, «the molten metal just fell off,» Varanasi says.

The scientists just mix silicon carbide crystals in water with tiny loops of genetic material containing the DNA to be inserted, and the plant cells that will receive it.

Making a conventional silicon solar cell requires many steps, all done in just the right order at just the right temperature — something like baking a fragile soufflé.

An intracortical BCI uses a tiny silicon chip, just over one - sixth of an inch square, from which protrude 100 electrodes that penetrate the brain to about the thickness of a quarter and tap into the electrical activity of individual nerve cells in the motor cortex.

And just as a prism bends visible light to reveal the rainbow, different silicon structures can bend infrared light in useful ways.

It senses the weak van der Waals forces between the tip of a cylindrical silicon probe — just 0.1 micrometres across — and atoms on the surface of the chip.

Perovskites are perhaps the most promising of these alternatives: they are cheap and easy to produce, and in just a few short years of development, perovskites have become almost as efficient as silicon at converting sunlight into electricity.

The implant is a square silicon chip just four millimeters (about 1/6 of an inch) wide, studded with an array of 100 hair - thin electrodes.

Tosi said the design sidesteps a challenge that all spin - based silicon qubits were expected to face as teams begin building larger and larger arrays of qubits: the need to space them at a distance of only 10 - 20 nanometres, or just 50 atoms apart.

Leigh's colleagues, Frances Wade and Andrew Moody, suspected that if buckyballs were trapped in the one - dimensional channels of a zeolite, they might change their properties just like porous silicon.