News tagged with chip devices

Turning heat to electricity... efficiently

(PhysOrg.com) -- In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (67) | comments 9

IBM's breakthrough chip technology lights the path to exascale computing

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists today unveiled a new chip technology that integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silicon, enabling computer chips to communicate using pulses of light ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (56) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Sony unveils 'Single Wire Interface Technology'

(PhysOrg.com) -- With Sony's newly-developed 'single wire interface technology' bi-directional transmission of multiple signals, including video, audio and control signals can propagate over a single copper ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (28) | comments 16 | with audio podcast weblog

Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 3

Quantum Computer Chips Now One Step Closer To Reality

In the quest for smaller, faster computer chips, researchers are increasingly turning to quantum mechanics -- the exotic physics of the small. The problem: the manufacturing techniques required to make quantum devices have ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Applied physicists create building blocks for a new class of optical circuits

Imagine creating novel devices with amazing and exotic optical properties not found in Nature -- by simply evaporating a droplet of particles on a surface.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

'Slow light' on a chip holds promise for optical communications

A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200 in a study reported in Nature Photonics (published online Septem ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sony Develops Wireless Chip Connections

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony has recently developed a wireless chip alternative to today’s chips that use conventional pin connections. This sets new limits on how small an electronic device can be.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 12 | with audio podcast weblog

IBM Scientists Effectively Eliminate Wear at the Nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists have demonstrated a promising and practical method that effectively eliminates the mechanical wear in the nanometer-sharp tips used in scanning probe-based techniques. This discovery can potentially ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 8

Hot new material can keep electronics cool: Few atomic layers of graphene reveal unique thermal properties

Professor Alexander Balandin and a team of UC Riverside researchers, including Chun Ning Lau, an associate professor of physics, have taken another step toward new technology that could keep laptops and other electronic devices ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Graphene could lead to faster chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research findings at MIT could lead to microchips that operate at much higher speeds than is possible with today's standard silicon chips, leading to cell phones and other communications ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- What started out as 'blue-sky' thinking by a group of European researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

New device could bring optical information processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of optical device small enough to fit millions on a computer chip that could lead to faster, more powerful information processing and supercomputers.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transparent, flexible '3-D' memory chips may be the next big thing in small memory devices

New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures — twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven — and survive ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 7 | with audio podcast