Sentences with phrase «made of transistors»

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Gordon Moore was a genius and he had it right, but Moore's Law was tied to the Law of Scaling, which is how you make a transistor smaller.

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.

Researchers are now reporting in the journal ACS Nano a new, inexpensive and simple way to make transparent, flexible transistors — the building blocks of electronics — that could help bring roll - up smartphones with see - through displays and other bendable gadgets to consumers in just a few years.

Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power - hungry transistors may enable intensive number - crunching tasks like codebreaking or image - processing using a fraction of the power.

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

Schn says the next steps are to self - assemble molecules of different shapes to see which ones make the best transistors, and to see how far these devices can be scaled down.

«However, making dozens of devices, as we have done in our paper, is different than making a billion, which is done with conventional transistor technology today.

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).

It is a simple device, made of only 178 transistors compared with the billions in today's silicon computers.

«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.

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.

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.

Various methods of making graphene - based field effect transistors (FETs) have been exploited, including doping graphene tailoring graphene - like a nanoribbon, and using boron nitride as a support.

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 engineers are approaching the limits of how small they can make silicon transistors and how quickly they can push electricity through devices to create digital ones and zeros.

But not yet: «There's a big step between making one transistor and making hundreds of millions of them that all work.»

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.

The device used a new process to make this world record - setting organic transistor, paving the way for a new generation of cheap, transparent electronic devices.

«Engineers make world's fastest organic transistor, herald new generation of see - through electronics.»

You can make transistors out of them in the same way you can with silicon.

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.

They then attached strips of gold to both ends of each nanotube, creating a transistor, and linked up to three such devices in various ways to make circuits that would execute simple logical functions: flipping a signal from off to on or vice versa, turning two off signals into an on, storing a unit of information or creating an oscillating signal.

In their glory days, these outfits pioneered a staggering series of epoch - making advances: the transistor, cell phones, faxes, the computer mouse, color television, the graphical computer interface, radar, and much more.

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.

Researchers, however, seem to have that under control: The same day that Intel made its announcement, SEMATECH, the semiconductor manufacturers» research consortium, announced that its engineers had tested high - k versions of both transistors.

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.

Today's chips are made from silicon, but many engineers think we are approaching the limit of how small the transistors in these chips can be built.

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.

In the screen on your smart phone, for example, every little pixel that makes up the image is turned on and off by hundreds of thousands or even millions of miniaturized transistors.»

The cluster we report in this paper serves as an excellent solution precursor to make very smooth thin films of amorphous aluminum indium oxide, a semiconductor material that can be used in transparent thin - film transistors.»

Their biological transistor, which they named the «transcriptor,» is a device made from an engineered sequence of DNA.

Engineers ensure that the millions of transistors on a chip behave reliably by slamming them with high voltages — essentially, pumping up the difference between a 1 and a 0 so that random variations in voltage are less likely to make one look like the other.

«An analogy from conventional computing hardware would be that we have finally worked out how to build a transistor with good enough performance to make logic circuits, but the technology for wiring thousands of those transistors together to build an electronic computer is still in its infancy.»

Traditional digital computers depend on millions of transistors opening and closing with near perfection, making an error less than once per 1 trillion times.

Instead of using transistors as switches the way digital computers do, Boahen builds a capacitor that gets the same voltage a neuron makes.

A cooperation between the Technical University of Munich and the University of Regensburg on the German side and the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale University in the United States has now, for the first time, produced a field effect transistor made of black arsenic phosphorus.

A lone atom of phosphorus embedded in a sheet of silicon has been made to act as a transistor.

Already used in fiber optic communications, the field of applied photonics is making steady progress in developing optical circuits, which use nanoscale «optical cavities» as switches or «transistors» for controlling the flow of light.

And it wasn't the only challenge; other fixes include making gates out of metal, connecting transistors with copper rather than aluminum wires, and using «strained» rather than ordinary silicon for the channel between source and drain.

These are made of a cylindrical mesh of interlinked carbon atoms that can carry current, but there are lots of difficulties: connecting them to the rest of the transistor, improving their not - so - hot semiconductor properties, and ensuring the nanotubes are sized and aligned correctly.

Other scientists at Bell Labs have made scientific breakthroughs leading to advances such as the invention of the transistor, Chu said.

The arrays are created out of silicon - nitride wafers, the kind typically used to make transistors.

At the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco on Monday, Akinwande's team reported both graphene and molybdenum disulfide transistors made on specially coated paper that boasted performance levels that match those of devices built on plastic.

We have seen piezoelectric transistors incorporated into synthetic skins making them sensitive enough to read fingerprints, other approaches that use multipurpose sensors to detect temperature and humidity in addition to pressure, and others that use pressure - sensitive materials made from inorganic semiconductors to only use a small amounts of power.

During her time at the Lab, she contributed to numerous programs, both internal and external, and has made fundamental scientific contributions in the areas of radiation detectors, micro-nano fabrication and materials science, opto - electronics and heterojunction transistors.

The research team used an atomic force microscope tip as a temperature probe to make the first nanometer - scale temperature measurements of a working graphene transistor.

Researchers in Australia and the US have demonstrated a working transistor by placing of single atom of phosphorous with atomic precision between gates made of wires only a few phosphorous atoms wide.

... The transistor has a cut - off frequency of 155 GHz, making it faster and more capable than the 100 GHz graphene transistor shown by IBM in February last year, said Yu - Ming Lin, an IBM researcher.

Because of the lack of energy gap in natural graphene, graphene transistors do not possess the on - off ratio required for digital switching operations, which makes conventional processors better at processing discrete digital signals.