Sentences with phrase «small transistor»

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.

Christensen offers many examples from business history: the large business computer was displaced by the personal computer, the fixed radio set by the small transistor - driven portable.

It was the CSR program that earlier this year unveiled a breakthrough computer chip based on 5 nanometer architecture with the smallest transistors ever created.

Nearly all mass market devices rely on microchips of the chemical element silicon, on which manufacturers etch ever smaller transistors — essentially electrical switches that can be used to fashion logic circuits for computers.

«The carbon bonds are so stable that small transistors of even only a few atoms can sustain high currents,» Novoselov says.

Today's chips are made from silicon, but many engineers think we are approaching the limit of how small the transistors in these chips can be built.

But people are already thinking about possible alternative materials and technologies to replace silicon when it will fail to deliver for increasingly smaller and smaller transistors.

The MST technology gives more precise control over elements added to the silicon channel, a process Mears says reduces variability so smaller transistors that consume less power are practical.

It was called Building 9 and originally stored the small transistors made by Sprague Electric (the industry that occupied MASS MoCA before it was a museum).

Not exact matches

Gordon Moore was a genius and he had it right, but Moore's Law was tied to the Law of Scaling, which is how you make a transistor smaller.

If scientists work out the challenges, the result could be a transistor that's not necessarily smaller, but that is a lot faster.

Each of these phases in digitalization required massive amounts of invested capital, which yielded substantial gains in productivity, as transistors became smaller, more powerful, more affordable and ubiquitous.

Carbon nanotubes, one - tenth to one - hundredth the thickness of the smallest silicon transistors, remain functional at smaller scales.

This is crucial, because as transistors get ever smaller, we need to know in the finest detail how they heat up — so we can help them keep their cool.

But the unreliability of silicon transistors smaller than about 10 nanometers means the pace of progress in silicon - based computing will soon slow.

And other Bell Labs researchers recently produced some of the smallest and fastest transistors ever, proving that for now, at least, Moore's Law marches on.

In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the Department of Physics and the Department of Electronics Engineering at the UAB, and from the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University (USA), studied the heating of small current lines placed on top of a silicon substrate, simulating the behavior of current transistors.

Because even a fairly chubby molecule is hundreds of times as small as today's tiniest transistor, it's an appealing idea.

Because of that — in addition to increasingly smaller sizes of transistors and similar charge - carrying materials — electrons have a tendency to bottleneck, or create traffic jams.

For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy - efficient transistors to power next - generation electronic devices.

By combining a novel design with high - precision techniques for carving semiconductors, the NEC team has developed an experimental transistor with a key feature that's 20 times smaller than in the transistors found on the densest commercially available chips.

But engineers are approaching the limits of how small they can make silicon transistors and how quickly they can push electricity through devices to create digital ones and zeros.

The new study confirms that, in terms of size, carbon - nanotube transistors can beat out silicon — and that's no small feat.

Commercial transistors are now as small as 32 nanometers, but that's closing in on the limits of current fabrication technology.

The smaller you can make a transistor, the faster it is.

But that rule seems to be nearing its limit: Today's silicon transistors can't get much smaller than they already are.

In addition, these carbon materials can be made smaller than silicon - based transistors, which are nearing their size limit due to silicon's limited material properties.

Taking yet another tack, physicist Jan Hendrik Schn, with help from other researchers at Bell Laboratories, has refined a technique he recently described for making transistors out of a layer of small carbon molecules.

And because graphene is essentially a two - dimensional material, building smaller devices with it and controlling the flow of electricity within them are easier than with three - dimensional alternatives like silicon transistors.

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.

The inexorable trend in electronics for the past four decades has been to do more with less — to make transistors ever smaller in order to squeeze more processing power into a given space on a microchip.

Smaller is better when it comes to the transistors that form the heart of modern electronics, and in April a team of European physicists reported in Science [subscription required] that they had created the tiniest transistor in history.

Many researchers believe that this power - wasting phenomenon could spell the end of Moore's Law, named for Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore, who predicted in 1965 that the density of transistors would double roughly every two years, leading to smaller, faster and, as it turned out, cheaper electronics.

But as transistors become tinier they waste more power and generate more heat — all in a smaller and smaller space, as evidenced by the warmth emanating from the bottom of a laptop.

As transistors get smaller and smaller, occupying ever - tinier regions of a silicon chip, it becomes increasingly likely that any given region (barely tens of nanometers across) may have too many or too few dopant atoms.

Last year an international team achieved the next astonishing milestone in downsizing: They devised a way to make a single - atom transistor, the smallest possible electronic switch.

By replacing the bulky switches with smaller, cooler - running transistors, Cocconi came up with a new, digital - chip - based inverter package that tipped the scales at a mere 60 pounds.

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

The next step is to use microbes to create biological transistors, which could detect small amounts of pathogens or deadly chemicals.

With today's device microprocessors, electric current passes through transistors, which are essentially very small electronic switches.

If scientists work out the challenges, the result could be a transistor that's not necessarily smaller, but that is a lot faster.

Graphene quantum dots vary with their size: Large dots form molecular - scale transistors, intermediate ones show quantum chaos, and the smallest act as single - electron detectors.

Flash memory, and other solid - state memory, stores information as small regions of charge — effectively a little cluster of electrons — on a transistor.

That would enable graphene to form extremely small, fast transistors.

These compounds could lead to smaller and faster transistors, photovoltaics, sensors and catalysts, according to the researchers.

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.

Smaller, faster, cooler: graphene transistors show promise for practical analog signal processors, for magnetic memory devices, and for self - cooling electronic circuits.

Once Sony found a foothold for the transistor in small, cheap, low - power devices, it was able to improve the technology in the decades and years ahead until it was eventually making the TVs and radios that RCA had wanted to sell.

Meanwhile, the transistor got its start in small, low - power devices such as hearing aids and the staticy - sounding pocket radios sold by Sony starting in the 1950s.

This seems to be a key feature of his theory: The small personal computer did not supplement the large business computer of the early days of the computer revolution, but instead served those who didn't have any computers at all; the transistor - driven small radio was embraced by those who had no other access to radios.