News tagged with device architecture

Thin drives -- the next generation of portable memory

Tablets are fast becoming the media device of choice nowadays for work and play, particularly with the advent of iPads and the Samsung Galaxy Tab into the mobile device market. With a volume of 19.5 million ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip stokes tablet wars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia has launched its Tegra 3, the quad-core chip designed for mobile devices. Tech and investor blogs were busy yesterday assessing what this means for upcoming tablets and smartphones ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Innovative organic solar cell architecture sets new performance level

The Belgian research centre imec, together with Plextronics and Solvay, present this week at the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (PVSEC) in Hamburg an organic polymer-based single ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

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

New solid state drives launched for tablets, ultra-thin notebooks

SanDisk Corporation today introduced two new solid state drives (SSDs) for the mobile computing market. The U100 drive, successor to the popular SanDisk P4 modular SSD series, delivers a flexible, cost-effective ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Read-write device offers new architecture for information processing

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Silicon based logic devices may run out of steam soon because as devices get smaller, they run into different problems," Laurens Molenkamp tells PhysOrg.com. Molenkamp is a physics professor at Universität Wü ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 18 | with audio podcast feature

Advance made toward communication, computing at 'terahertz' speeds

Physicists in the United States and Germany have discovered a way to use a gallium arsenide nanodevice as a signal processor at "terahertz" speeds, the first time it's been used for this purpose and an important step forward ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

FlashFind - Lightning-Fast Search on Mobile Devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fraunhofer researchers will be presenting fast and easy-to-use search technologies for mobile devices at the 2010 Mobile World Congress.

Technology / Software

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers create all-electric spintronics

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.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 3

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

HP Enables New Field of Flexible Electronics with Reflective Display Technology

HP today announced the launch of a new display technology for the personalization of consumer electronics products.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0