Sentences with phrase «which transistors»

In this scenario, each silicon photodetector is like a bucket that collects light, after which the transistors read the information in that bucket to generate each image, says Ted Sargent, InVisage's founder and chief technology officer.

For example, we can analyze the transistors based upon their activity during various games (left) or which transistors are necessary for a given game to function.

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.

This increases the speed at which the transistor can turn on and off.

Not exact matches

Gordon Moore was a genius and he had it right, but Moore's Law was tied to the Law of Scaling, which is how you make a transistor smaller.

For decades, we lived within Moore's Law, which predicted that the number of transistors packed into a processor would double every two years, providing a steady gallop of technology improvement.

Unlike traditional computers, in which a silicon chip's transistors are either turned on or off, a qubit can be both at the same time.

By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan extended its domination to the global electronics industry as it manufactured the majority of the world's consumer electronics products and introduced innovative and revolutionary new products such as the pocket transistor radio, the VHS recorder and the Sony Walkman, which created a consumer love affair that was similar to the Apple iPod and iPhone craze of recent years.

Each of these phases in digitalization required massive amounts of invested capital, which yielded substantial gains in productivity, as transistors became smaller, more powerful, more affordable and ubiquitous.

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.

This transparent transistor, which functions even when wrapped around a thin pen, could help make flexible electronics widely accessible.

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 field gives rise to two - dimensional electron gas by which carriers travel across the transistor from source to drain.

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.

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

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.

Schn says the next steps are to self - assemble molecules of different shapes to see which ones make the best transistors, and to see how far these devices can be scaled down.

«The transistor laser has those plus a third output — a coherent photon beam,» which can be transmitted by fiber - optic line for speed - of - light processing.

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.

l Silicon: Bell Labs developed the first silicon transistor in 1954, which led to the Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, released in 1971.

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

«In fact,» Prof. Lugli explains, «the electrical resistivity of such films can be modulated by either an applied voltage (to provide a transistor action) or by the adsorption of gas molecules, which in turn is a signature of the gas concentration for sensor applications.»

The material belongs to a class called transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), which show promise in replacing silicon in transistors.

Each point of light is a single light - emitting diode (LED) powered by an electric current, which is switched on and off by a transistor.

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.

She opened the desk drawer and pulled out her grandfather's transistor radio, out of which a romantic love song wafted.

Ordinary transistors rely on the motion of millions of electrons, which, when pressed close together, generate a great deal of heat.

The discovery relies upon a «conjugated redox polymer» design with a naphthalene - bithiophene polymer, which has traditionally been used for applications including transistors and solar cells.

The result was a great improvement in carrier mobility, which measures how quickly electrical charges travel through the transistor.

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

The flow of current through a transistor is regulated by tiny switches, known as gates, which must be electronically isolated.

In addition, these carbon materials can be made smaller than silicon - based transistors, which are nearing their size limit due to silicon's limited material properties.

Today's electronic devices are powered by transistors, which are tiny silicon structures that rely on negatively charged electrons moving through the silicon, forming an electric current.

Novoselov says the miniature transistor will be well suited for the demands of ever - shrinking electronic devices, which require a lot of power packed into a small area.

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.

Magerle's technique, which lends itself to full automation, should prove especially useful on hard materials, such as metals, crystals, semiconductors and ceramics, and might be able to flesh out defects in transistors that are now missed.

Rather than processing and storing information as bits in transistors or memories, which limit information to the binary» 1» or» 0», quantum computers would instead use quantum systems, such as atoms, ions, or electrons, as «qubits» to process and store «quantum information» in, which can be in an infinite number of combinations of» 1 and 0».

About a dozen possible next - generation candidates exist, including tunnel FETs (field effect transistors, in which the output current is controlled by a variable electric field), carbon nanotubes, superconductors and fundamentally new approaches, such as quantum computing and brain - inspired computing.

Chemist Charles Lieber and co-workers at Harvard University created simple logic circuits incorporating up to six transistors by crisscrossing nanometer - wide wires of silicon and gallium - nitride, each junction of which forms a transistor.

«These impurities can act as charged defects that trap charge carriers in semiconductors and reduce carriers» mobility, which eventually could deteriorate the performance of transistors.»

He could see that Moore's Law, which observes that the number of transistors crammed into integrated circuits doubles every two years, would eventually plateau, «which is what is happening right now,» says Knight.

The secret to their success is their unique process, which eliminates many steps and slashes both the time and cost of fabricating the transistors.

In conventional digital electronics, the key to building logic gates is the transistor, a component in which a modest control signal can regulate the flow of a large electric current.

The thin - film transistor (TFT) has been designed to replicate the junction between two neurons, known as a biological synapse, and could become a key component in the development of artificial neural networks, which could be utilised in a range of fields from robotics to computer processing.