Sentences with phrase «light on a computer chip»

«Engineers make sound loud enough to bend light on a computer chip: Device could improve wireless communications systems.»

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The team did this by developing a memory system that accurately transfers between light and sound waves on a photonic microchip — the kind of chip that will be used in light - based computers.

«For [light - based computers] to become a commercial reality, photonic data on the chip needs to be slowed down so that they can be processed, routed, stored and accessed,» said one of the research team, Moritz Merklein.

Instead of light, computers run on electrons moving through silicon - based chips — which, despite huge advances, are still less efficient than photonics.

Photons are faster and cooler than electrons, but no one has been able to bend useful frequencies of light around the tight corners needed to navigate the million turns on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.

For using the advantages of light, i.e. speed and energy efficiency, also on the small scale of computer chips, researchers of KIT have made an important step from fundamental research towards application.

So I introduced the idea to use light to move data on a computer chip.

Many of today's technologies (i.e. solid state lighting, transistors in computer chips, and batteries in cell phones) rely simply on the charge of the electron and how it moves through the material.

«This could be used to scale current semiconductor technologies down to the atomic scale — lasers, light - emitting diodes (LEDs), computer chips, anything,» says Dr. Linyou Cao, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.

Similar structures have been proposed to power quantum computers and for use in other optical applications that require many tiny light sources integrated together on a single chip.

To improve the efficiency of waveguides — devices that guide light on the surface of silicon optical computer chips — a complex balance must be struck.

These lights can be left on main beam and a computer chip picking up images from the driver - assist camera above the interior mirror will blank out individual sections to avoid dazzling other road users.

But while the Radeon RX Vega M processors are meant for thinner and lighter laptops for companies looking to cut down on space, these new Coffee Lake chips are designed for hardware manufacturers» top computers (presumably with more powerful discrete graphics cards) where firepower is of chief concern.

Although there have been a few connected compact fluorescent bulbs, LEDs are much easier to turn into smart lighting because they are based on semiconductors, the same material as computer chips, and the bulbs typically have a collection of chips and other electronics inside of them.