Sentences with phrase «silicon devices»

And, while the computer industry has made enormous strides in making cheaper silicon devices, those advancements don't translate to the solar industry.

Light emitted by «porous» silicon may not come from the silicon itself but from a chemical created during the manufacture of silicon devices, according to German researchers.

Researchers re-created the fly's unique mechanism by constructing a 2 - millimeter rectangular silicon device with a fulcrumlike pivot supporting a tiny beam, similar to a seesaw.

That same year, Shockley and seven other scientists founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the «first silicon device and research manufacturing company in Silicon Valley,» as a plaque marking the spot in Mountain View reads today.

To break through this bottleneck, researchers are trying to integrate photonics into silicon devices.

The design is a leap forward in silicon spin qubits; it was only two years ago, in a paper in Nature, that Dzurak and Veldhorst showed, for the first time, how quantum logic calculations could be done in a real silicon device, with the creation of a two - qubit logic gate — the central building block of a quantum computer.

Electroluminescent porous silicon devices could also be used as cheap, easily built large - area displays, or for high - resolution displays that can be integrated with silicon circuitry.

At the beginning of 2007, shortly after I joined the engineering faculty at Yale, I began to assemble a team to find ways of using light to drive silicon devices on a nanometer scale.

Stiff silicon devices are powerful, of course, but not the best fit for some situations such as advanced medical sensors.

For years, scientists have been experimenting with carbon nanotube devices as a successor to silicon devices, as silicon could soon meet its physical limit in delivering increasingly smaller, faster and cheaper electronic devices.

This past spring another 20 patients got the silicon device.

Physicists have constructed a sort of anti-laser, a silicon device that turns very specific kinds of light into energy

«Then we're going to engineer the structure of the surface of the silicon device to get some unusual Casimir forces to produce repulsion,» he says.