News tagged with electronic noise

Nanowires have superior electrical, mechanical properties and can be put to good use in pressure sensors

Miniaturized pressure sensors are widely used in mechanical and biomedical applications, for example, in gauging fuel pressure in cars or in monitoring blood pressure in patients. Woo-Tae Park and co-workers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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

Adding up photons with a transition edge sensor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated that a superconducting detector called a transition edge sensor (TES) is capable of counting the number of as many as 1,000 photons in a single pulse of light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

All that glitters is not gold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers developing key new technology electronics like quantum computing or advanced detectors, as well as those studying basic material science and metal surface properties, often find ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists develop device to enable improved global data transmission

Researchers have developed a new data transmission system that could substantially improve the transmission capacity and energy efficiency of the world's optical communication networks.

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Turning down the noise in graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is a two-dimensional crystalline sheet of carbon atoms - meaning it is only one atom thick - through which electrons can race at nearly the speed of light - 100 times faster than ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

When noise becomes the signal

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a new class of electronics that uses noise -- normally a problem -- as part of the signal. It means better, faster electronics.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Cell-inspired electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A single cell in the human body is approximately 10,000 times more energy-efficient than any nanoscale digital transistor, the fundamental building block of electronic chips. In one second, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Samsung's New CMOS Imagers Offer High-Performance, HD Capable Solutions for Mobile Phones

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed two new CMOS image sensors - the S5K4E2 and the S5K5CA - for the mobile phone market. Designers and manufacturers of high-end smart phones and slim mobile handsets ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0