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International team to demonstrate first heralded single-photon generation from a silicon chip

An international consortium of researchers has overcome an important barrier to the generation of single photons using a tiny, chip-scale device constructed from the most widely used material underpinning ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Retroreflector transmits light with negligible power consumption

(Phys.org) -- In free-space optical communications (FSO), data is wirelessly transmitted by light propagating through open space. Among their applications, FSO systems are used for communications between spacecraft ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

ARM Announces 45nm SOI Test Chip Results That Demonstrate 40 Percent Power Savings Over Bulk Process

ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

UMC, ARM Partner to Deliver Comprehensive SOI Solutions for 65nm Technology

UMC and ARM today announced that a test chip built with ARM SOI (Silicon On Insulator) libraries was taped-out successfully on UMC's 65-nanometer (nm) SOI process. The test chip consists of a set of ARM physical IP that uses ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 04, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

World's first SOI MOSFET with crystalline Gd2O3

Researchers at AMICA have successfully fabricated the world's first MOSFETs on ultra-thin-body silicon-on-insulator (SOI) material with a crystalline gadolinium oxide (Gd2O3) gate dielectric.

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created Nov 28, 2005 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Freescale, Soitec achieve 70-percent improvement in electron mobility using strained SOI technology for sub-65-nm device

Marking an important advancement in strained silicon technology for next-generation devices, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. and the Soitec Group today announced the results of their joint development effort to optimize CMOS ...

Technology /

created Apr 12, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New SOI transistor developed beyond 65-nm technology nodes

20% increase in speed and 1/10 power reductions by employing back-bias control Hitachi, Ltd. announced that it has developed a new SOI (Silicon On Insulator)*1) transistor which dramatically improves speed and lowers power ...

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created Dec 29, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UMC Announces a Device Technique that Enhances Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) Transistor Performance

HSINCHU, Taiwan, May 26, 2004 -- UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today announced the discovery of a new engineering technique that enhances Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) transistor performance. The Direct-Tunneling induce ...

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created May 26, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IBM's new Power 5 chips based on SOI and copper interconnects.

IBM is to show off a range of servers using its Power 5 CPUs, according to US reports. The eServer i5 series using the Power 5 chip are being touted as 40% faster than machines using the previous Power family. The machines ...

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created May 04, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Building a 'blind-friendly' Internet

Rakesh Babu demonstrates how a blind person uses the Internet.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New EU project targets first 100GHz optical RAM silicon chips

A new EU project that aims to develop a 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) optical random access memory (RAM) chip has just kicked off. This chip will be the first of its kind.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research focuses on implementing radio frequency MEMS resonators on a silicon chip

Semiconductor Research Corporation and Cornell University researchers are working to advance on-chip silicon development to enable new generations of smaller and more sophisticated mobile electronic devices.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Implant-free quantum-well SiGe pFETs for future high-performance CMOS architectures

Imec announces that it has successfully fabricated implant-free quantum-well (IF-QW) pFETs with an embedded silicon-germanium (SiGe) source/drain. These devices show an excellent short channel control and a record logic performance. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IBM microprocessors to power the new Wii U system from Nintendo

IBM announced that it will provide the microprocessors that will serve as the heart of the new Wii U system from Nintendo.  Unveiled today at the E3 trade show, Nintendo plans for its new console to hit ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Nanoscale waveguide for future photonics

The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast