Sentences with word «transistor»

Moore's law correctly predicted that the number of transistors in microchips would double every two years — check the graph from 1971 to 2011.

Still another embodiment of the present invention provides a method of using amorphous silicon thin film transistors in operating a gyricon active matrix display.

Sony has developed a large (A4 paper size) flexible digital paper notepad using E Ink Mobius; high precision thin film transistors on plastic instead of glass has been used.

In 1965 Gordon Moore predicted that the density of transistors on integrated circuits doubles every two years or so.

Combining the two types enables switching of current in such devices as transistors used in computer memories and other electronics.

This is a false - color, plan - view SEM image of a lateral gallium oxide field effect transistor with an optically defined gate.

A cooperation between the Technical University of Munich and the University of Regensburg on the German side and the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale University in the United States has now, for the first time, produced a field effect transistor made of black arsenic phosphorus.

The computer industry is exploring technologies that in essence are drop - in replacements for transistors with improved characteristics: different designs such as the fin FET, a 3 - D rather than a flat configuration on a computer chip, Aidun said.

This will be using a Low - Temperature Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Film Transistor Technology which will be solving the grainy image issue plaguing current VR display.

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

For close to a decade, researchers have been trying to improve the performance of plastic semiconductors to the level of amorphous silicon — the semiconductor used in low - cost electronics such as photovoltaic cells for solar power and thin - film transistors used in flat screen laptops and TVs.

But RCA could only service its customers by making transistors more cost - and performance - effective in its existing markets.

«Graphene electronics are still in their infancy; however, our measurements and simulations project that thermoelectric effects will become enhanced as graphene transistor technology and contacts improve» said Pop, who is also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the U. of I....

Compared to prior investigations, which contained optical hysteresis in cavities containing nonlinear absorptive and dispersive gain media, the operation principles as physical processes and operating mechanisms in transistor laser electro - optical bistabilities are considerably different.

This is possible, Lim realized, because proteins in a cell function like transistors on a silicon chip.

«Extending Moore's Law: Shrinking transistor size for smaller, more efficient computers.»

Other research efforts into e-paper have involved using organic transistors embedded into flexible substrates, [33][34] including attempts to build them into conventional paper.

Researchers in Australia and the US have demonstrated a working transistor by placing of single atom of phosphorous with atomic precision between gates made of wires only a few phosphorous atoms wide.

But Moore's Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who 47 years ago predicted a steady, two - year cadence of chip improvements, keeps defying the pessimists because a brigade of materials scientists like Mayberry continue to find ways of stretching today's silicon transistor technology even as they dig into alternatives.

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.

Historically, we have achieved faster processing speeds by cramming more transistors onto silicon chips.

It conducts heat and electricity better than copper, and can be made into transistors which are faster than those made from silicon.

From what I saw during my time with Transistor at this year's PAX East, Red may be silent, but she's anything but passive.

Researchers at Chalmers are the first to have shown that graphene based transistor devices could receive and convert terahertz waves, a wavelength located between microwaves and infrared light, and the results were published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

«However, making dozens of devices, as we have done in our paper, is different than making a billion, which is done with conventional transistor technology today.

Kane points out that the atomic transistor works at temperatures below 1 kelvin and that fabrication is difficult.

Although the first transistor radios appeared in the mid-1950s, the invention's full commercial potential did not begin to be realized until the 1970s and»80s.

They also had several 9V powered transistor radios, including a Little Green Sprout model made in Hong Kong.

We are now approaching a point at which transistors are near atomic - scale, chips can't fit many more processors, and we're unhappy with having the same kinds of batteries in our devices.

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

To shrink its microprocessor circuitry elements to today's 22 - nanometer size — just 22 billionths of a meter — Intel had to develop a technology called tri-gate transistors in which silicon semiconductor material protrudes in fin - shaped ridges.

Yet, the pace of innovation and new efficiencies to be had from shrinking transistors has slowed.

Such materials may provide insight into quantum physics and have possible applications in creating transistors based on the spin of particles rather than their charge.

It seems the clear solid can be used as a mask to build transistors more precisely.

The two other research goals are to develop new transistor structures that use graphene - like materials as the active layer and to exploit the commercialization of graphene for flexible electronics.

Indro Mukerjee Chairman of Plastic Logic said «I believe that the full potential of plastic electronics is now emerging as transformational developments in flexible transistor performance and bold, new concepts drive more and more applications.

The tuning of this property can sequentially create and destroy the hourglass fermions, suggesting a range of potential applications such as efficient transistor switching.

, but for the fun of it, I made up this design using single transistors only.

In October, IBM announced they fit 10,000 carbon nanotube transistors onto a single chip, bringing nanotube - based computers closer to reality.

Today's computer chips pack billions of tiny transistors onto a plate of silicon within the width of a fingernail.

The researchers constructed the optical transistor by interconnecting the silver nanowire to a flake of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2).

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.

Sandwiched in between are many layers of metal needed to connect the silicon electronic transistors together.

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

It's also equipped with transistor ignition, special suspension, heavy - duty radiator, special ducted hood, heavy - duty 4.10 posi - traction rear axle, power disc brakes, white - letter tires, AM radio and code - Z21 style trim group.