Sentences with phrase «transistors onto»

The one used in the PlayStation 3 crams 234 million transistors onto a single die.

Historically, faster processors have been made by cramming more transistors onto silicon chips.

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

Silicon offers the opportunity to build conventional and nanofluidic transistors onto the same chip for computerized control of chemical and biological processing.

The key is making the insulator as thin as possible in order to switch the channel faster and pack more transistors onto a chip.

By «printing» plastic transistors onto the card instead, banks could issue cards that are much more robust.

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

Not exact matches

Yang Yang and colleagues note that transistors are traditionally made in a multi-step photolithography process, which uses light to print a pattern onto a glass or wafer.

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.

To build their transistor, Jan Hendrik Schn of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and colleagues, who describe their findings in the current issue of the journal Nature, allowed many thousands of organic molecules to assemble themselves onto a gold film like bristles on a brush.

Electrical engineers Joseph Lyding and Mark Hersam of the University of Illinois developed a technique for plucking single hydrogen atoms from a silicon sheet, which may lead to a millionfold increase in the number of transistors that can be packed onto a chip.

Garnier's device is about 50 micrometres in size, more than ten times larger than conventional transistors that are etched onto silicon chips.

But this method can damage the transistors on the panel, introduce tiny contaminants onto the screen, and create streaks across it, says Mahesh Samant, a chemist at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.

While the number of electricity - hungry transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip has doubled about every two years over the past few decades, it took more than 20 years (from 1970 to 1990) to double the amount of energy that rechargeable batteries can store per pound.

For decades the electronics industry has hummed along according to what is known as Moore's law: As technology progresses and circuitry shrinks, the number of transistors that can be squeezed onto a silicon chip doubles every two years or so.

A goal shared by computer chip makers is to keep shrinking the transistor: squeeze ever more onto a single chip and you increase its computational power.

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.

The collaboration is based on the deposition of organic printed photodetectors (OPD), pioneered by ISORG, onto a plastic organic thin - film transistor (OTFT) backplane, developed by Plastic Logic, to create a flexible sensor array.

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.

Nozzles akin to those inside an ink - jet printer spray a solution of semiconducting polymers onto plastic sheets, forming transistors.

This encapsulated «ink» is then printed onto a plastic film and laminated on to a layer of circuitry, or — to be even more specific — a transistor matrix layer.

Featuring 7 billion transistors, this 50 x 50 mm package then gets placed onto the motherboard, which gives the engine power and memory to utilize.

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.