Sentences with phrase «of transistors»

The rapid fall in sequencing prices may give genomics an equivalent of Moore's Law, which describes how the number of transistors on computer chips doubles every 18 months, steadily driving down the cost of computing power.

In 1965, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, famously observed that the number of transistors on computer chips were doubling every 2 years.

The consumer electronics revolution was not brought about so much by the fact that microfabrication technologies allowed the formation of microscale transistors as that they allowed the cost - effective integration of millions of transistors in a functioning unit (e.g., a Pentium processor).

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.

The invention of the transistor in 1948 changed everything, of course; but that same year, a quiet Bell Labs engineer named Claude Shannon wrote a short monograph that became «a fulcrum around which the world began to turn,» says Gleick.

«We would want to use the nanowires one at a time because we are pushing the size of a transistor as small as possible,» Kim said.

As the density of transistors doubles, the prices get halved by the improvements in manufacturing — inverse corollary

«In the semiconductor industry, for example, large single crystals of silicon are used to produce microchips, to avoid grain boundaries that otherwise alter the local electronic properties and degrade the performance of transistors in these devices.»

Sony's use of the transistor enabled a whole new population of people, whose bank accounts and apartments had been too small, to own a TV.

It refers to the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip.

Here's what Krzanich said in response to the analyst's comment, citing, among other things, Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors doubles approximately every two years.

Looking back on it, I can definitely see the similarities in terms of what it takes to envision, manage, and build complex structures, whether that's accomplished on the enormous scale of a city or on the microscopic level of a semiconductor chip with billions of transistors.

In his new book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Penguin), Jon Gertner vividly tells the story of the transistor, as well as the dozens of other innovations that rolled out of Bell Labs.

Microchips continue to become more powerful as designers find ways to cram greater numbers of transistors into tighter spaces.

Nevertheless, quantum teleportation is a giant step toward one of physicists» most ambitious goals: building a quantum computer — an ultrafast, supersecure, huge - memory number - crunching device that uses atomic particles instead of transistors to retain and process information.

As a result, the team designed a new type of transistor — with the concept published in the journal Applied Physics Letters — that could open new routes for graphene - based high - speed electronic and optoelectronic devices.

The random presence or absence of a single electricity - conducting dopant atom on the silicon surface can radically change the behavior of a transistor and lead to errors, even in digital mode.

We are the first company worldwide able to manufacture transistor arrays (basically a matrix of transistors) on plastic.

As for MSAA - I'd rather like the GPU vendors to use that (rather significant) amount of transistors in other parts of GPUs.

Varying the placement of the transistor gate or gates also can help.

Varying the placement of the transistor gate or gates also can help.

However, a practical analogue of the transistor for optical interconnects does not yet exist.

«We are trying to develop the basic working unit of a quantum chip, the equivalent of the transistor on a silicon chip,» Vuckovic said.

They are rapidly reaching the limits of physics in terms of transistor size — it isn't possible to continue shrinking the transistors to fit more on a chip.

In a method patented by two of the article's authors, often referred to as Feng and Holonyak's idea, the optical absorption can be further enhanced by the cavity coherent photon intensity of the transistor laser.

And so it begins: Scientists have managed to build a biological version of the transistor.

While we are slowing approaching the end point of Moore's Law: a state where we physically can not shrink the dimension of our transistors much further.

In 1959 Leo Esaki, a doctoral student at the University of Tokyo, submitted a thesis on the quantum behavior of semiconductors, work that eventually led to the development of transistors.

A heterojunction bipolar transistor like the one IBM is developing has a similar structure, but its central region is made of a material (a silicon germanium alloy, for example) different from the rest of the transistor (5).

The measurements revealed that thermoelectric cooling effects can be stronger at the areas where the graphene touches the metal contacts, and this effect overpowers resistive heating, actually lowering the temperature of the transistor.

«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.»

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.

That's a lot of transistors — but what do they all do?

I loved going in there and just looking around, wondering what half the stuff was, particularly their walls of transistors, capacitors, plugs and patch cords.

«The main application of our transistors is for next - generation displays, like OLED or LCD displays,» said Yang.

The device can also amplify its flow, another important function of transistors.

Because combinations of transistors can carry out computations, this should make it possible to build living gadgets with integrated control circuitry.

Computer chips are made of transistors, which work by letting current flow through a channel only when voltage is applied to a gate, IBM researcher Aaron Franklin explains.

Researchers have taken a step in this direction by printing cheap, reliable arrays of transistors — the key components of modern electronics — and using them to carry out elementary computing tasks.

Between the layers of transistors they deposited thin films of a protective material called parylene.

Researchers want to use molecules with controllable properties to take the place of transistors in many applications.

One of the distinguishing features of transistors is inclusion of an insulated terminal called a «gate» whose input voltage determines whether the transistor will conduct electricity or not.

The availability of transistors and circuits to operate at temperatures above 200 degrees Celsius is limited.

It is the researchers» belief the operations of the electro - optical hysteresis and bistability in the compact form of the transistor laser can be utilized for high speed optical logic gate and flip - flop applications.

When William Shockley died in 1989, he might have wished to be remembered simply as the inventor of the transistor and as the father of Silicon Valley.