Not exact matches
Many
of humanity's greatest advances came from physics: radio,
transistors,
lasers, the world wide web, leaving Earth, and so on.
Holonyak's team at the University
of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign devised a
transistor that is also an ultratiny
laser, producing a narrow beam
of light simultaneously with electrical current.
«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.
«Because
of the switching path differences between coherent and incoherent cavity photon densities reacting with collector voltage modulation via Feng - Holonyak intra-cavity photon - assisted tunneling resulting in the collector voltage difference in switch - UP and switch - DOWN operations, the
transistor laser bistability is realizable, controllable and usable,» Feng said.
A new study by University
of Illinois engineers found that in the
transistor laser, a device for next - generation high - speed computing, the light and electrons spur one another on to faster switching speeds than any devices available.
Graduate students Junyi Wu and Curtis Wang and professor Milton Feng found that light stimulates switching speed in the
transistor laser, a device they hope will usher in the next generation
of high - speed data transmission.
Rather, the researchers burned vast swaths
of transistors out
of the chip with a
laser, then allowed the systems to recalibrate.
Among thousands
of incremental advances, such as better microphones, amplifiers, filters and transmitters, came a few great leaps — > digital computing, the
transistor, the
laser and satellite communications.
Who would have thought that quantum mechanics, which in the 1920s was the most esoteric possible disharmony you could think
of, would account for such a large percentage
of our economy today —
lasers,
transistors, and all the like.
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.
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Transistors, cleanroom years preferred, using photonics measurement devices.