Sentences with phrase «of transistors into»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

By the early 2000s, transistor size had dipped below a ten - millionth of a meter, bringing computers and cell phones into the nano realm.

New types of solar cells and flexible transistors are also in the works, as well as pressure and temperature sensors that could be built into electronic skin for robotic or bionic applications.

Henning Sirringhaus of Cambridge and his colleagues describe in Science how they fashioned this polymer into an organic transistor and used it to drive a conventional polymer - based LED built directly on top.

The sandwiches can be sculpted into numerous basic devices such as transistors, light detectors and light emitters, says Wasiq Bokhari, CEO of Bioident Technologies in Menlo Park, Calif., a U.S. subsidiary of Nanoident.

When the buffer is placed on top of the CNT FET, the voltage across the device causes the molecules in the buffer to arrange into an electrically stable bilayer above the transistor.

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.

Novoselov says the miniature transistor will be well suited for the demands of ever - shrinking electronic devices, which require a lot of power packed into a small area.

Computer engineers have dreamed of a machine that would translate speech into something that a vacuum tube or transistor could understand.

He could see that Moore's Law, which observes that the number of transistors crammed into integrated circuits doubles every two years, would eventually plateau, «which is what is happening right now,» says Knight.

It was roughly 15 years ago that carbon nanotubes were first fashioned into transistors, the on - off switches at the heart of digital electronic systems.

«We've found a way to integrate high - frequency active transistors into a useful circuit that can be wireless,» says Ma, whose work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

The team hopes to link nanofluidic transistors together into an integrated circuit within the year as the next step to harnessing massive numbers of transistors in parallel.

Built into the receiver are low - noise amplifiers on the basis of high - speed transistors using indium - gallium - arsenide - semiconductor layers with very high electron mobility.

The sensors, which the researchers have already shrunk to a 1 millimeter cube — about the size of a large grain of sand — contain a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasound vibrations from outside the body into electricity to power a tiny, on - board transistor that is in contact with a nerve or muscle fiber.

On page 314 of this issue, Tee et al. (3) report a Digital Tactile System («DiTact») based on a low - power flexible organic transistor circuit that transduces pressure stimuli into oscillating signals like those generated by skin mechanoreceptors.

This means that what previously would have taken centimetres to achieve can now be realised on the micrometre (one millionth of a metre) scale, bringing optical processing into the range of electrical transistors, which currently power personal computers.

To work around the limits of that approach, Intel flipped the planar transistor's silicon on its side into a fin that juts up out of the plane of the chip.

Moore's Law keeps defying the pessimists because a brigade of materials scientists continues to find ways of stretching today's silicon transistor technology even as they dig into alternatives

Such materials may provide insight into quantum physics and have possible applications in creating transistors based on the spin of particles rather than their charge.

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.

Even the most sophisticated chips to date have (millions of) transistors embedded within them and configured into complex circuits, assigned with many discrete and specific operations through different stages.

Windshield Displays Organic Light Emitting Diode, or OLED, and Transparent Thin - Film Transistor, also called T - TFT, technologies might turn your windscreen into a panoramic flat - screen display, an epicenter for an endless supply of vehicle information and entertainment.

Providing insight into a frustrating inconsistency in the performance of electronics made with organic materials, Stanford researchers have shown that the way boundaries between individual crystals in a film are aligned can make a 70-fold difference in how easily current, or electrical charges, can move through transistors.

Set in a futuristic world on the brink of ruin, players step into the shoes of Red, a singer whose voice was stolen by the very weapon she wields — the Transistor.

This week, Eric joins the boys of Summer, Robert becomes one of Destiny's Children, Jeremy lets loose with a pent - up pile of game impressions, and Sage transforms Transistor impressions into an onslaught of innuendo.

Transistor belies its generic name by being anything but run - of - the - mill; it's an action game with turn - based combat: a combination that, before you get into it, will cause you to take a step back and ask of developer SuperGiant games, «Will they get away with it??».

The artistic direction in both games is some of the best I've ever seen in the industry, with Transistor standing out especially as a game that to this day I can not fathom just how much work was put into every single environment.

At first I thought it a bit of an obnoxious idea, broadcasting music out into the silent wilderness, but when we're out there and we tune in on small transistor radios, it is pretty cool.