Inventing this new memory technology was also the key to creating the high - rise chip because RRAM can be made at much lower
temperatures than silicon memory.
The hybrid material developed by USC and Northrop Grumman is twenty times better at maintaining
temperature than silicon alone.
Not exact matches
Moreover, the process required
temperatures no higher
than 120 °C, compared with many hundreds of degrees on a typical
silicon wafer fabrication line, the team reports in ACS Nano.
Not only did the results match experimental results, they found that localized modes contributed more
than 10 percent to the total thermal conductivity and are largely responsible for the increase in thermal conductivity of amorphous
silicon above room
temperature.
In the new study, researchers placed tiny particles of
silicon carbide (one represented by the group of tan molecules in this artist's concept) covered with graphite (hexagonal networks of gray atoms) in a vacuum chamber that duplicated the deep - space conditions surrounding many stars (
temperatures between 900 and 1500 kelvins and pressures less
than one - billionth that found at Earth's surface).
And while making crystalline
silicon requires
temperatures up to 2000 ° Celsius, perovskite crystals form at easier - to - reach
temperatures — lower
than 200 °.
It might also withstand higher
temperatures than diamond, allowing it to be used as a conductor or semiconductor to replace
silicon in high -
temperature electronics.
In the presence of oxygen, silver dissolved readily into the glass when
temperatures are higher
than 650 degrees Celsius, causing more silver to eventually end up at the
silicon surface and in turn forming a better contact.
The most important and impressive under the hood improvement is the use of the highest performance LCDs with low
temperature poly
silicon LTPS, the same technology used in the iPhone 4 and 5, but on the Kindle with more
than 5 times the screen area — the largest LTPS on a mobile display.
While most LCDs still use amorphous
silicon (a-Si), many high - ppi LCDs use low -
temperature polysilicon (LTPS), which has considerably higher electron mobility
than a-Si, allowing the circuitry to be made much smaller.
For those who are wondering, OLED is better
than the tech currently inside the iPhone 7, which is LTPS (low -
temperature poly -
silicon).