Sentences with phrase «transistors used»

Moore's Law predicts that the number of transistors used on dense integrated circuits will double year on year.

The clusters of nano - sized transistors used in the prototype are extremely sensitive to chemicals, which cause changes in the electrical conductance of the sensors upon surface contact.

In the 1980s, Carver Mead, a pioneer in microelectronics at the California Institute of Technology, realized that the same transistors used to build computer chips could be used to build circuits that mimicked the electrical properties of neurons.

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

Woven into uniforms, the battery - like supercapacitors could power displays or transistors used for communication.

In a test, the magnetic chip used 1 / 35th of the power a transistor used (Nanotechnology, doi.org/tz3).

Built into the receiver are low - noise amplifiers on the basis of high - speed transistors using indium - gallium - arsenide - semiconductor layers with very high electron mobility.

Bozovic says his team will next try to fabricate a superconducting field - effect transistor using their cuprate material.

An international team of scientists has discovered a new route to ultra-low-power transistors using a graphene - based composite material.

Transistor uses a clever hybrid of real - time and turn - based combat, allowing you to mash buttons or carefully queue up a sequence of attacks depending on what best suits the situation.

Not exact matches

The transistor, for example, was first brought to market in 1952, when it was used in hearing aids.

In my teens I used some of those transistors they sold to build a device that allowed me and a friend to make long - distance phone calls for free, even though we didn't really have anyone to call.

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 uses a MOSFET transistor for well - regulated output and the dual voltage compatibility lets you set it up to your workshop conditions.

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.

«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.»

Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power - hungry transistors may enable intensive number - crunching tasks like codebreaking or image - processing using a fraction of the power.

The technique could be a breakthrough for computers that use subatomic particles, rather than transistors, to store and process information.

For every bit of data it stores, SRAM uses six transistors.

Instead, the team hopes to use their transistor - like system to simulate superconducting devices of the future.

Nevertheless, quantum teleportation is a giant step toward one of physicists» most ambitious goals: building a quantum computer — an ultrafast, supersecure, huge - memory number - crunching device that uses atomic particles instead of transistors to retain and process information.

The research could help guide selection of materials for use in future molecular - size transistors.

Now a transistor that controls the flow of atoms, rather than electrons, could be used as a model to probe the mysterious electrical property of superconductivity.

Nearly all mass market devices rely on microchips of the chemical element silicon, on which manufacturers etch ever smaller transistors — essentially electrical switches that can be used to fashion logic circuits for computers.

When I was at Bell Labs, I was surrounded by amazing organic chemists who could cook up all kinds of interesting polymers and organic molecules that we could use to build transistors.

And instead of using conventional silicon wafers for transistors and diodes, they used silicon layers only 50 nanometers thick, enabling the components to dissolve in a couple of weeks.

For example, the type of computing logic the team used requires more transistors than other approaches, largely wiping out gains from more closely packing the components.

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.

«Our design incorporates conventional silicon transistor switches to «turn on» operations between qubits in a vast two - dimensional array, using a grid - based «word» and «bit» select protocol similar to that used to select bits in a conventional computer memory chip,» he added.

Other groups are looking at using a single organic molecule, strung between two electrodes, as a transistor.

Back when transistor radios were hip, Mariner 4 sent these first close - up views of Mars across 134 million miles using a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter.

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.

Solid - state systems, such as those in computers and communication devices, use electrons; their electronic signaling and power are controlled by field - effect transistors.

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

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.).

Using snippets of DNA and DNA - clipping chemicals, researchers have created one key component of a computer's brain: the transistor, a switch that helps electronics perform logic.

We can examine every transistor in a classical microprocessor using the same techniques we use to understand the brain.

«Given the importance of developing devices that use less power and perform under harsh conditions, there has been a lot of interest within the broader scientific community in determining a way to build transistors that utilizes manufactured diamonds, which are a very durable material.»

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.»

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

For example, it suggests that graphene could be used to make a transistor - like device in a superconducting circuit, and that its superconductivity could be incorporated into molecular electronics.

Various methods of making graphene - based field effect transistors (FETs) have been exploited, including doping graphene tailoring graphene - like a nanoribbon, and using boron nitride as a support.

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

Researchers have taken yet another step toward creating super-tiny circuits using nanotubesthose miniature straws of pure carbon that can conduct electricity, mimic transistors, act as quantum wires and perform a number of other neat electrical tricks.

Henning Sirringhaus of Cambridge and his colleagues describe in Science how they fashioned this polymer into an organic transistor and used it to drive a conventional polymer - based LED built directly on top.

Easy to use and abundant, silicon has been the go - to transistor material for decades, but in February, the world saw the first silicene transistor.

The device used a new process to make this world record - setting organic transistor, paving the way for a new generation of cheap, transparent electronic devices.

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

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.