Sentences with phrase «transistor works»

When you first start learning engineering, you are given all these ideal equations that theorize how an ideal transistor works.

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.

All the transistors worked, even 8 months after production — an impressive feat for organic electronics, which often degrade quickly.

Adjusted for today's dollars, RCA and the other vacuum - tube companies spent upward of $ 1 billion trying to make the transistor work in the market as it existed at that time.

A dopant in a semiconductor can be at the 1 PPM level, yet if you change something from 1 PPM to 2 PPM it could spell the difference between a transistor working well or not.

Not exact matches

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

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

«Since humans designed this processor from the transistor all the way up to the software, we know how it works at every level, and we have an intuition for what it means to «understand» the system,» Jonas says.

«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.

Addressing these challenges, Jiangwei Liu, from Japan's National Institute for Materials Sciences, and his colleagues describe new work developing diamond - based transistors this week in the journal Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing.

The research group focused their work on enhancement - mode metal - oxide - semiconductor field - effect transistors (MOSFETs), a type of transistor that is commonly used in electronics.

«Single molecules can work as reproducible transistors — at room temperature: Researchers are first to reproducibly achieve the current blockade effect using atomically precise molecules at room temperature, a result that could lead to shrinking electrical components + boosting data storage + computing power.»

In a step toward making display screens out of a material not too different from garbage bags, researchers for the first time have got plastic transistors and glowing diodes to work together.

The device works in a similar way to a field - effect transistor.

There is a need for new material systems that can be used to make field - effect transistors sensors that work at high temperatures.

«Most of the other studies created single - molecule devices that functioned as single - electron transistors at four degrees Kelvin, but for any real - world application, these devices need to work at room temperature.

«We are trying to develop the basic working unit of a quantum chip, the equivalent of the transistor on a silicon chip,» Vuckovic said.

New types of solar cells and flexible transistors are also in the works, as well as pressure and temperature sensors that could be built into electronic skin for robotic or bionic applications.

The work was described in a paper, «High - temperature performance of MoS2 thin - film transistors: Direct current and pulse current - voltage characteristics,» that was just published in the Journal of Applied Physics.

Prior to this work, quantum - wells were incorporated near the collector in the base of a III - V heterojunction bipolar transistor, resulting in a heavily reduced radiative spontaneous recombination lifetime of the device.

But not yet: «There's a big step between making one transistor and making hundreds of millions of them that all work.»

CNT FETs work like traditional transistors, but use carbon nanotubes instead of silicon.

Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world's fastest thin - film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high - resolution television screens and similar electronic devices.

Experiments over the past decade show that quantum computers (which process information using the quantum states of particles rather than transistors) really can work.

Mostly, the original work has actually been done on germanium and it wasn't until he decided that he was going to build silicon transistors that everybody else switched this world.

According to Shurkin, it was Bardeen and Brattain who did the key work in creating the first transistor.

Testing and analysis of this new combination reveal that it works as an effective transistor, even as it is repeatedly stretched up to 100 % of its length.

Like its electronic cousin, the bio transistor should be able to work within all sorts of biological circuitry.

Industry «does not have the heart» — or the monopoly profits — to invest in work with the same kind of «long - term payoff» as, say, the transistor, invented in 1947 by a trio of Bell Labs researchers.

Shepard is part of a team of scientists from Columbia and IBM working under a $ 4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop field - effect transistors made of graphene, which is particularly good at amplifying weak signals at high frequencies.

«We've found a way to integrate high - frequency active transistors into a useful circuit that can be wireless,» says Ma, whose work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

They are the first to apply inhomogeneous deformations, that is strain, to the conducting channel of an organic transistor and to understand the observed effects, says Reyes - Martinez, who conducted the series of experiments as part of his doctoral work.

In order for a transistor to work, it must be able to turn a flow of electrons on and off, to generate a pattern of ones and zeros, instructing a device on how to carry out a set of computations.

The results were impressive: The Number One Electronic Switching System, which DeMarco worked on; the Telstar 1, the first orbiting communication satellite; the laser; the metal - oxide semiconductor field - effect transistor; and the touchtone telephone.

«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.»

In 1959 Leo Esaki, a doctoral student at the University of Tokyo, submitted a thesis on the quantum behavior of semiconductors, work that eventually led to the development of transistors.

Instead of the simple manipulation of single genes, he wants to engineer many genes to work together, like transistors wired in a circuit.

Cao is also working to create field - effect transistors and LEDs using the technique.

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

To work around the limits of that approach, Intel flipped the planar transistor's silicon on its side into a fin that juts up out of the plane of the chip.

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

To minimize cost, IBM is working to fit theradio equipment onto an integrated circuit that can be made cheaply.The key here is what is called a (brace yourself) heterojunctionbipolar transistor.

That means electrons move faster and transistors therefore can work faster.

Most computers work by using a series of transistors, gates that allow electricity to pass or not pass.

Led by Prof Coleman, in collaboration with the groups of Prof Georg Duesberg (AMBER) and Prof. Laurens Siebbeles (TU Delft, Netherlands), the team used standard printing techniques to combine graphene nanosheets as the electrodes with two other nanomaterials, tungsten diselenide and boron nitride as the channel and separator (two important parts of a transistor) to form an all - printed, all - nanosheet, working transistor.

The research team used an atomic force microscope tip as a temperature probe to make the first nanometer - scale temperature measurements of a working graphene transistor.

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.

Commercialized graphene transistors will provide a performance boost in applications related to wireless communications, networking, radar and imaging, said Phaedon Avouris [winner for experimental work, 1999 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology], an IBM fellow.

They are the first to apply inhomogeneous deformations, that is strain, to the conducting channel of an organic transistor and to understand the observed effects, saysReyes - Martinez, who conducted the series of experiments as part of his doctoral work.

Supergiant Games senior programmer Chris Jurney leaves the Bastion and Transistor studio to work on virtual reality.