Sentences with phrase «silicon technology»

The combination gives much lower cost of equivalent energy (only ~ 10 - 20 % that of silicon technology).

These carbon - based electronics could provide a cheaper alternative to traditional silicon technology and allow for flexible handheld devices for many functions, including smartphones and tablets for watching TV.

There were hardly any alternatives to classical silicon technology available.

This paper describes the effects of the temperature coefficient of power, using operational system data to quantify the First Solar CdTe technology energy - yield advantage over typical crystalline silicon technology in high - temperature conditions.

However, until now, all prototypes of devices based on conventional ferroelectrics have not been compatible with silicon technology, which is used in the production of most modern chips.

PV Market Perspective Crystalline silicon technology dominates the worldwide PV Market although in 2009 Thin Films captured 16 - 17 % market share on a MegaWatt - peak (MWp) basis led by First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) with about 13 %.

«Complete design of a silicon quantum computer chip unveiled: A reimagining of today's computer chips by Australian and Dutch engineers shows how a quantum computer can be manufactured — using mostly standard silicon technology.»

These ultra-thin solar charging devices use amorphous silicon technology, which is said to be effective even in shady or lower - light conditions.

«You could use these types of switchable materials alongside the current silicon technology used in cell phones or laptops», says Van Heumen.

This opens up new possibilities for microelectronics: «Germanium can be effectively combined with existing silicon technology, and also the addition of tin and / or gallium in such high concentrations offers extremely interesting potential applications in terms of optoelectronics,» says Sven Barth.

To date silicon technology could provide ever tinier transistors for smaller and smaller devices.

The author has helped create electronic devices that outperform traditional silicon technology yet remain compatible with standard manufacturing methods

For example, a bi-axis vector magnet is required to realize all energy state configurations and arrangements, and it would be challenging to incorporate such a magnet into commercial silicon technology.

Because silicon technology is created using temperatures up to 300 degrees Centigrade — a temperature that melts plastics — these screens have, so far, been limited to glass.

Thin - film silicon technologies from turn - key vendors will be ramping up in large scale during the second half of 2008, while cadmium telluride (CdTe) module producers such as First Solar

«Our technology, in terms of transistor density, is at the stage of silicon technology in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when the first microprocessors came out,» Jung says.

They have recently received much attention, as the efficiency of perovskite solar cells has rapidly increased to the level of silicon technologies in the past few years.

A reimagining of today's computer chips by UNSW engineers shows how a quantum computer can be manufactured — using mostly standard silicon technology.

Powerfilm, working with the Army's Natick Soldier Center, has developed three army tents that use the company's thin amorphous silicon technology.

How do advancements in crystalline silicon technology, including PERC and bifacial cells and modules, impact performance?

«Since the structures of this material are compatible with silicon technology, we can expect that new non-volatile memory devices with ferroelectric polycrystalline layers of hafnium oxide will be able to be built directly onto silicon in the near future,» says the corresponding author of the study and head of the Laboratory of Functional Materials and Devices for Nanoelectronics, Andrei Zenkevich.

«If you look at where electronics is going, silicon technology, a lot of the basic technology that we use to build computers today, we're approaching the limit in almost all of them,» says Luis Henrique Ceze, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington.

American venture capital firm focused on early stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, silicon technology, biotechnology, healthcare and clean technology sectors

Most transistors are silicon - based and silicon technology has driven the computer revolution.

«Because of the heritage of the watch industry, there are a lot of specialist technologies available in Switzerland: micro-electronics, plastic injection, silicon technology, moulding... there is deep experience in all of these areas.»

Research teams led by Zhenan Bao, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, and Jinsong Huang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at UNL used their new process to make organic thin - film transistors with electronic characteristics comparable to those found in expensive, curved - screen television displays based on a form of silicon technology.

The large depth of modulation is a consequence of the high manufacturing accuracy in silicon technology.

Almost all of the increase would go to NSF's six research directorates, with a special emphasis on clean energy, the next generation of silicon technology, climate change, and sustainability.

Nowadays, silicon technology is integrated in all our electronics, so who knows what these materials will be used for twenty years from now.»

In my opinion, the silicon technology doesn't scale [up] too well [because it's expensive to make].

With further system development, silicon technology has the potential to provide a room - temperature - operating platform for supercontinuum generation extending deeper in the mid-infrared, up to 8500 nm.

Potentially they can provide an alternative to silicon technologies, but here we're talking about completely new architecture rather than just introducing a new material into the system.

«The most probable outcome is that silicon technology will find a way to keep scaling, some way continue to deliver more value with succeeding generations,» said Nvidia Chief Scientist Bill Dally.