http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Intel Corp. has raised its quarterly dividend by 16 percent, boosting what was already one of the highest-yielding shareholder payouts in technology. http://phys.org/news224350442.html Technology Wed, 11 May 2011 16:34:28 EST news224350442 (PhysOrg.com) -- IBM researchers are hopeful that, over the next decade, silicon-based transistors will be replaced by carbon-based transistors. IBM has already laid out the ground work for carbon-based transistors. http://phys.org/news184420861.html Nanotechnology Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:01:57 EST news184420861 Nowadays, a myriad of silicon transistors are responsible to pass on the information on a microchip. The transistors are arranged in a planar array, i.e. lying flat next to each other, and have shrunk down already to a size of only about 50 nanometers. Further miniaturization of transistors with a planar structure will soon come to an end due to fundamental physical limits. Still, even smaller transistors are desirable in order to continuously improve their functions while reducing the cost of the electronics. http://phys.org/news184355174.html Nanotechnology Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:20:01 EST news184355174 For the first time, French researchers at CNRS and CEA have developed a transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse. http://phys.org/news183373216.html Nanotechnology Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:00:49 EST news183373216 (PhysOrg.com) -- A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), have demonstrated how an incredible material, graphene, could hold the key to the future of high-speed electronics, such as micro-chips and touchscreen technology. http://phys.org/news183135827.html Nanotechnology Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:10:03 EST news183135827 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated a new microwire fabrication technique in which microwires self-assemble themselves in a three-dimensional template made of nematic liquid crystals. Amidst concerns about Moore’s law eventually approaching a limit in two dimensions, the new fabrication method could enable researchers to continue to increase the density of transistors on integrated circuits by making use of the third dimension. http://phys.org/news183024614.html Physics Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:50:01 EST news183024614 (PhysOrg.com) -- Computers keep getting more powerful because silicon transistors keep getting smaller. But that miniaturization can't continue much further without a change to the transistors' design, which has remained more or less the same for 40 years. http://phys.org/news181997025.html Nanotechnology Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:44:13 EST news181997025 Consumers will be able to fix their automobiles while the car gives step-by-step advice, attack their ailments by making computer models of various treatments to find the best one, and duck into virtual fitting rooms to try on a store's clothes without leaving home. http://phys.org/news181389485.html Technology Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:58:42 EST news181389485 Taiwan has developed tiny microchips that could lead to lighter and cheaper laptops or mobile phones, researchers and observers said Wednesday. http://phys.org/news180166164.html Technology Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:30:01 EST news180166164 NEC Corporation, in collaboration with the National Institute of Materials Science, today announced the successful integration of NanoBridge, a solid electrolyte non-volatile crossbar switch, in Cu interconnects placed on CMOS logic. This development enables the realization of high performance non-volatile programmable logic at a low cost. http://phys.org/news180038763.html Technology Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:00:01 EST news180038763 Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that, using carbon nanotubes as heat-dissipation material in amplifier transistors, Fujitsu has become the first to achieve the successful operation of high-frequency, high-power (100W-class) flip-chip amplifiers employing carbon nanotubes, for mobile base stations designed for fourth-generation (4G, IMT-Advanced) systems. http://phys.org/news179762688.html Technology Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:05:53 EST news179762688 (PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS technology. The technology opens the door to a future generation of LSI fabricated with bulk CMOS technology, the mainstream technology in today's LSI, by achieving the world's first practical fabrication process applicable to 20nm generation CMOS devices. http://phys.org/news179592956.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:03:32 EST news179592956 (PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed MOSFET cell based on spin transport electronics, or spintronics, an advanced semiconductor technology that makes use of the spin and magnetic moment inherent in electrons. Toshiba has fabricated a spintronics cell and verified its stable performance for the first time, and will present full details of the cell and its technologies on December 7 (EST), at the International Electronics Devices Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. http://phys.org/news179572434.html Technology Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:26:31 EST news179572434 (PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon transistors are now getting so small that they’re running up against fundamental physical limits: soon, it will be impossible to squeeze any better performance out of them. http://phys.org/news179518970.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:25:46 EST news179518970 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications. http://phys.org/news179518616.html Physics Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:17:33 EST news179518616 Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based monolithic inverter integrated circuit (IC) for motor drive. The integrated six GaN-based transistors can be independently driven in a single chip, which enables successful motor drive with high efficiency. The new GaN inverter IC is applicable to motor drive in a variety of consumer electronics. http://phys.org/news179516515.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:00:05 EST news179516515 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon. The results have just been published in Nano Letters. http://phys.org/news179331125.html Nanotechnology Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:16:01 EST news179331125 Scientists at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh, Manchester, Southampton and York universities, have developed technology which will help microchip designers create future integrated circuits. http://phys.org/news178721729.html Technology Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:20:02 EST news178721729 Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures while employing chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) techniques which are in widespread use in semiconductor manufacturing. http://phys.org/news178552799.html Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:00:59 EST news178552799 (PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips. http://phys.org/news177088957.html Technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:24:39 EST news177088957 (PhysOrg.com) -- An Arizona State University engineering student may have found the tiniest - yet most cleverly inventive - way to show school spirit. http://phys.org/news176106977.html Technology Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:00:01 EST news176106977 Researchers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program have developed a comprehensive transistor noise model capable of extracting defect characteristics from low frequency noise data in advanced gate stack transistors using both conventional and novel dielectrics. The proposed model is a key step towards identifying and minimizing defects to support aggressive device scaling. SEMATECH’s results were presented at the IEEE Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW) on Thursday, October 22, in Lake Tahoe, CA. http://phys.org/news175882600.html Technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:40:01 EST news175882600 A multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means. http://phys.org/news175871026.html Nanotechnology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:05:04 EST news175871026 (PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described in this week’s online edition of Nature Chemistry. http://phys.org/news175415776.html Nanotechnology Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:37:08 EST news175415776 Every hour, the sun floods Earth with more energy than the entire world consumes in a year. Yet solar power accounts for less than 0.002 percent of all electricity generated in the United States, primarily because photovoltaic cells remain expensive and relatively inefficient. http://phys.org/news175195934.html Nanotechnology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:32:55 EST news175195934 (PhysOrg.com) -- "If you open up almost any electronic gadget, you will see various elements that operating using electric circuitries," Nader Engheta tells PhysOrg.com. "Many of them have different functionalities, such as inductors, capacitors, resistors, transistors, and so forth. These well-known elements have been around for decades. But what if you could bring these concepts to the nanoscale, and what if they could operate with light instead of electricity?" http://phys.org/news175161170.html Nanotechnology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:53:59 EST news175161170 With the speed of computers so regularly seeing dramatic increases in their processing speed, it seems that it shouldn't be too long before the machines become infinitely fast -- except they can't. http://phys.org/news174750105.html Physics Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:42:19 EST news174750105 Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described in this week's online edition of Nature Chemistry. http://phys.org/news174643920.html Nanotechnology Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:13:07 EST news174643920 (PhysOrg.com) -- What if atoms could be used to perform the functions currently the province of electronic devices? The goal of atomtronics is to do just that by creating analogues to the common items found in electronic devices. Ron Pepino, a graduate student at JILA and the University of Colorado, believes that he and his colleagues have found a way to create the atomtronic versions of diode and transistor circuits. The work of Pepino, Cooper, Anderson and Holland is described in Physical Review Letters: "Atomtronic Circuits of Diodes and Transistors." http://phys.org/news174303837.html Physics Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:44:44 EST news174303837 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional silicon-based transistors. http://phys.org/news173626785.html Nanotechnology Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:40:28 EST news173626785