News tagged with transistor circuitry

An optical diode made with silicon technology can be used for quantum information

(PhysOrg.com) -- Transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes. All of these are examples of common electrical circuit elements that can be found on a computer motherboard, for instance. Billions of transistors ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New path to flex and stretch electronics: Researchers develop solution-based fabrication technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable promises to revolutionize a number of industries and make "smart devices" nearly ubiquitous. Among the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

Printed CNT transistor circuits may lead to cheaper OLED displays

(PhysOrg.com) -- While flexible OLED displays have begun appearing in some cell phones, the technology is still too expensive to be widely used in consumer electronics. In one of the latest attempts to enable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

New energy-saving flip-flop circuit developed by Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a new flip-flop circuit using 40nm CMOS process that will reduce power consumption in mobile equipment. Measured data verifies that the power dissipation ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nanowires made of 'strained silicon' show how to keep increases in computer power coming

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers keep getting more powerful because silicon transistors keep getting smaller. But that miniaturization can't continue much further without a change to the transistors' design, which ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1