News tagged with silicon transistors

Graphene on boron nitride work may lead to breakthrough in microchip technology

(Phys.org) -- Graphene is the wonder material that could solve the problem of making ever faster computers and smaller mobile devices when current silicon microchip technology hits an inevitable wall. Graphene, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

NLT announces naked-eye display with better 3-D view

(Phys.org) -- NLT Technologies has announced its development of an autostereoscopic multiview display based on the success of its HxDP technology. HxDP stands for Horizontally x times Density Pixels. The company ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Multiple groups claim to create first atom-thick silicon sheets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since its discovery in 2004, graphene -- sheets of carbon an atom thick -- has sparked a flurry of research into the nanomaterial's potential applications for blazing fast, tiny electronics. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

More energy efficient transistors through quantum tunneling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Pennsylvania State University have announced breakthroughs in the development of tunneling field effect transistors (TFETs), a semiconductor ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Biodegradable transistors -- made from us

Silicon, a semi-conducting element, is the basis of most modern technology, including cellular phones and computers. But according to Tel Aviv University researchers, this material is quickly becoming outdated in an industry ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Computational sprinting pushes smartphones till they're tired

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computational sprinting is a groundbreaking new approach to smartphone power and cooling that could give users dramatic, brief bursts of computing capability to improve current applications ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers move graphene electronics into 3D

In a paper published this week in Science, a Manchester team lead by Nobel laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov has literally opened a third dimension in graphene research. Their ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have built the first carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor with a channel length below 10 nm, a size that is considered a requirement for computing technology in the next decade. Not ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 32 | with audio podcast feature

A new class of electron interactions in quantum systems

Physicists at the University of New South Wales have observed a new kind of interaction that can arise between electrons in a single-atom silicon transistor.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New advance could lead to even smaller features in the constant quest for more compact, faster microchips

The microchip revolution has seen a steady shrinking of features on silicon chips, packing in more transistors and wires to boost chips’ speed and data capacity. But in recent years, the technologies behind these chips ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New 3-D transistors promising future chips, lighter laptops

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Purdue and Harvard universities have created a new type of transistor made from a material that could replace silicon and have a 3-D structure instead of conventional flat computer chips.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

First molybdenite microchip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Molybdenite, a new and very promising material, can surpass the physical limits of silicon. EPFL scientists have proven this by making the first molybdenite microchip, with smaller and more ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays

Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several advantages over LCDs, including ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Biocompatible graphene transistor array reads cellular signals

Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a graphene-based transistor array that is compatible with living biological cells and capable of recording the electrical signals they generate. This proof-of-concept ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The impending revolution of low-power quantum computers

By 2017, quantum physics will help reduce the energy consumption of our computers and cellular phones by up to a factor of 100. For research and industry, the power consumption of transistors is a key issue. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast