Sentences with phrase «transistor with»

«An analogy from conventional computing hardware would be that we have finally worked out how to build a transistor with good enough performance to make logic circuits, but the technology for wiring thousands of those transistors together to build an electronic computer is still in its infancy.»

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.

«Graphene - based field - effect transistor with semiconducting nature opens up practical use in electronics.»

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

Even at this stage, off - center spin coating produced transistors with a range of speeds much faster than those of previous organic semiconductors and comparable to the performance of the polysilicon materials used in today's high - end electronics.

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.

IBM is working on replacing silicon channels in transistors with carbon nanotubes.

And it wasn't the only challenge; other fixes include making gates out of metal, connecting transistors with copper rather than aluminum wires, and using «strained» rather than ordinary silicon for the channel between source and drain.

J. P. Llinas, A. Fairbrother, G. Borin Barin, W. Shi, K. Lee, S. Wu, B. Yong Choi, R. Braganza, J. Lear, N. Kau, W. Choi, C. Chen, Z. Pedramrazi, T. Dumslaff, A. Narita, X. Feng, K. Mullen, F. Fischer, A. Zettl, P. Ruffieux, E. Yablonovitch, M. Crommie, R. Fasel, and J. Bokor, Short - channel field - effect transistors with 9 - atom and 13 - atom wide graphene nanoribbons, Nat Commun, vol.

The success of this effort relies on new or improved processing techniques and materials for plastic electronics, including methods for (i) rubber stamping (microcontact printing) high - resolution (≈ 1 μm) circuits with low levels of defects and good registration over large areas, (ii) achieving low leakage with thin dielectrics deposited onto surfaces with relief, (iii) constructing high - performance organic transistors with bottom contact geometries, (iv) encapsulating these transistors, (v) depositing, in a repeatable way, organic semiconductors with uniform electrical characteristics over large areas, and (vi) low - temperature (≈ 100 °C) annealing to increase the on / off ratios of the transistors and to improve the uniformity of their characteristics.

Not exact matches

Looking back on it, I can definitely see the similarities in terms of what it takes to envision, manage, and build complex structures, whether that's accomplished on the enormous scale of a city or on the microscopic level of a semiconductor chip with billions of transistors.

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.

The li - on became the backbone of the mobile electronics revolution, with some calling its impact as big as the transistor's.

This level of productivity was previously unattainable with existing silicon devices and existing silicon design methodologies, with transistors working in active mode, not slow sub-threshold.

It reminds me of going on fishing trips with my friends to the remote lakes in northern Ontario, drinking beer in an old cabin, listening to Gordon on a transistor radio.

And in the villages, the rice paddies are plowed while transistor radios next to the field broadcast the changing prices of oil — which influence fertilizer and marketing costs — along with the latest pop music from all over the world.

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.

Manchester University had been installed with the first commercially - produced computer, the Ferranti Mark 1, and was about to develop the first computer to use transistors instead of valves.

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.

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.

«This is a material that we are very familiar with,» explains Professor Lieven Vandersypen of QuTech and the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, «Silicon is widely used in transistors and so can be found in all electronic devices.»

«A huge number of computing processes can now be done simultaneously with very low power consumption as you don't need the connecting wires transistors need.

Electronic components such as transistors and amplifiers with adaptive functions could be reduced to single, complex molecules.

Holonyak's team at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign devised a transistor that is also an ultratiny laser, producing a narrow beam of light simultaneously with electrical current.

The researchers engineered their transistor's base with microscopic pockets called quantum wells, which trap the electrons and release them as laser light.

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.

The researchers verified the structure of the nitrogenated crystal by atomic - resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy imaging and confirmed its semiconducting nature by testing it with a field effect transistor.

Because today's state of the art microprocessors consist of millions of transistors, most of the design is done using automated programs with prefabricated circuits.

Living systems achieve this functionality with their own version of electronics based on lipid membranes and ion channels and pumps, which act as a kind of «biological transistor.»

«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.

With combined characteristics of a memristor and transistor, the memtransistor also encompasses multiple terminals that operate more similarly to a neural network.

A team working on electronics for a space - based camera has tested ordinary transistors at ultra-low temperatures, and they passed with flying colours

This will help physicists and device engineers to design better quantum capacitors, an array of subatomic power storage components capable to keep high energy densities, for instance, in batteries, and vertical transistors, leading to next - generation optoelectronics with lower power consumption and dissipation of heat (cold devices), and better performance.

«Memtransistor» brings world closer to brain - like computing: Combined memristor and transistor can process information and store memory with one device.»

«Biologically powered chip created: System combines biological ion channels with solid - state transistors to create a new kind of electronics.»

It is a simple device, made of only 178 transistors compared with the billions in today's silicon computers.

Men with higher levels of DDE — a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT — and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were used in transistors and electronics, at 14 years old had higher rates of abnormal sperm.

What you get is a corannulene (C20H10), a molecule that, according to a just - published study conducted with SISSA's collaboration, could be an important component of future «molecular circuits,» that is, circuits miniaturized to the size of molecules, to be used for various kinds of electronic devices (transistors, diodes, etc.).

«Manufactured diamonds have a number of physical properties that make them very interesting to researchers working with transistors,» said Yasuo Koide, a professor and senior scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science leading the research group.

Graphene transistors integrated in a flexible neural probe enables electrical signals from neurons to be measured with high accuracy and density.

This development is promising for new electronic devices that interact with light, such as new kinds of transistors, superconducting switches and gas sensors.

While computer chips are typically made of bulky carbon compounds, scientists at the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry at Oregon State University are looking to replace these bulky compounds with metal oxides, which would allow more transistors to fit on a chip.

The findings were published in a recent paper, «Selective chemical vapor sensing with few - layer MoS2 thin - film transistors: Comparison with graphene devices,» in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

Materials that flip from insulator to conductor could make more energy - efficient transistors, although the metals are not yet close to competing with silicon

UNIST announced a method for the mass production of boron / nitrogen co-doped graphene nanoplatelets, which led to the fabrication of a graphene - based field - effect transistor (FET) with semiconducting nature.

Flat - panel displays are essentially big integrated circuits, with millions of transistors that turn pixels on and off across the display.

«If it can interact with transistors and memory, it would probably be really important,» says Daniel Radack, who oversees advanced computing issues for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Virginia.

But its solution has practical applications, for instance in connecting transistors on a chip with the minimum amount of gold wire.

«We're just starting with simple circuitry and low numbers of transistors, but the ability to print transistors is a breakthrough in itself,» he says.

«Because of the switching path differences between coherent and incoherent cavity photon densities reacting with collector voltage modulation via Feng - Holonyak intra-cavity photon - assisted tunneling resulting in the collector voltage difference in switch - UP and switch - DOWN operations, the transistor laser bistability is realizable, controllable and usable,» Feng said.