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.
With today's device microprocessors, electric current passes
through transistors, which are essentially very small electronic switches.
HP and researchers at Oregon State University have been developing see -
through transistors since 2002 by baking zinc tin oxide — a semiconductor — into glass or plastic.
The result was a great improvement in carrier mobility, which measures how quickly electrical charges travel
through the transistor.
The flow of current
through a transistor is regulated by tiny switches, known as gates, which must be electronically isolated.
Electricity flows
through the transistor on all three sides of the fin, allowing gates to wrap around the fin instead of touching only one face of the conductive channel.
A pulse of voltage is supplied by a further electrode,» opening» the switch and allowing current to flow
through the transistor.
Not exact matches
We somehow feel that what we can see with our own eyes is true, even when what we are seeing is mediated
through the lens of a camera, thousands of
transistors, miles of wire, and millions of phosphors projected on the back of a picture tube.
Researchers are now reporting in the journal ACS Nano a new, inexpensive and simple way to make transparent, flexible
transistors — the building blocks of electronics — that could help bring roll - up smartphones with see -
through displays and other bendable gadgets to consumers in just a few years.
Natelson's research involves complicated electron flow
through single - molecule
transistors, as well as organic semiconductors — carbon - based materials that are intended to replace silicon
transistors in some electronic devices.
The computer's performance has generally been improved
through upgrades in digital semiconductor performance: shrinking the size of the semiconductor's
transistors to ramp up transaction speed, packing more of them onto the chip to increase processing power, and even substituting silicon with compounds such as gallium arsenide or indium phosphide, which allow electrons to move at a higher velocity.
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 crossed fibers then acted as a
transistor, so that when a voltage was applied to one of the conducting threads, current began to flow
through the crossing thread, the researchers reported online yesterday in Nature Materials.
«Engineers make world's fastest organic
transistor, herald new generation of see -
through electronics.»
Today's electronic devices are powered by
transistors, which are tiny silicon structures that rely on negatively charged electrons moving
through the silicon, forming an electric current.
Just as spikes ripple down the branching tendrils of a neuron, pulses of electricity cascaded like flash floods
through the chip's
transistors and nanowires.
Many of today's technologies (i.e. solid state lighting,
transistors in computer chips, and batteries in cell phones) rely simply on the charge of the electron and how it moves
through the material.
The transport of these electrons as a current can be encouraged or discouraged by a voltage applied to an overlying electrostatic gate, pretty much the same arrangement used to move currents
through field - effect -
transistors (FETs), one of the universal components of myriad electronic devices.
But as the size of modern
transistors continues to shrink, the gate material becomes so thin that it can no longer block electrons from leaking
through — a phenomenon known as the quantum tunneling effect.
Creating a voltage between them allowed current to flow between the two perpendicular electrodes — separated from each other by just 20 nanometres,
through the single phosphorus atom, which acted as a
transistor.
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.
Transistor is, by all outward appearances, a third - person action game with a story told primarily
through narration (performed once again by Logan Cunningham) with a painterly art style reminiscent of Bastion.
The power comes
through pin 2 to the control
transistor.
Top - line interior displays are more elaborate: The driver gets a 7.0 - inch TFT (thin - film
transistor) display, and the top - level Uconnect and Apple CarPlay / Android Auto operate
through a brilliant 12 - inch screen.
He then made
transistors in which charges could flow
through molecules that were well aligned with each other, and others where the molecules were misaligned across the grain boundaries.
Pulling together bits from Oldboy, Akira,
Transistor, and Hotline Miami, Ruiner never reaches the highest points of its genre, but is a fun romp
through cyberhell that champions style over substance.
A single - player experience,
Transistor is a sci - fi themed action RPG that invites players to wield an extraordinary weapon of unknown origin as they fight
through a stunning futuristic city.
Transistor is a sci - fi themed action RPG that invites you to wield an extraordinary weapon of unknown origin as you fight
through a stunning futuristic city.
Transistor puts players in the shoes of Red, a singer in the city of Cloudbank who,
through a series of events, gets to wield the
Transistor, a big sword - like item that employs a variety of functions to take down enemies called The Process.
The game utilizes the specific features of the Playstation 4's controller by emitting the
Transistor's speech
through the controller's built in speaker and synching the speech with the controller's light bar.
A dozen people at Supergiant Games brought us the wonderful
Transistor, a watercolour - lush action RPG with music running
through its veins.
I can't wait to play
Transistor since I've played
through Bastion and I loved that too.
«How are we going to get the message
through to the front if all we have is this old
transistor radio?»
To that end they are typically mounted onto a metal heat sink that conducts the heat out of the
transistor, then gets rid of the heat
through some combination of radiation and convection.
In the LCD space, the backlight has to pass
through filters, which aren't 100 percent efficient, and the pixel controlling
transistor also takes up a notable amount of space that blocks some light in every sub-pixel.