Search results for electron leakage
Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed and demonstrated a new type of light emitting diode (LED) with significantly improved lighting performance and energy efficiency.
Toshiba's breakthrough in SSRM technology will Improve Cutting-Edge LSI
Apr 16, 2007 |
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Toshiba Corp. today announced that it has achieved a breakthrough in imaging electron-carrier paths and impurities in semiconductors that allows analysis at the 1-nanometer level for the first time. This major ...
A 20-year old mystery mechanism influencing DRAM cell retention time fluctuation clarified
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Dec 08, 2005 |
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Hitachi, Ltd., in cooperation with Elpida Memory announced today that they have identified that the leakage current fluctuation of the p-n junction*1) is the primary factor influencing the charge retention time fluctuation ...
New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...
To peer inside a living cell
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.
The Spin Cycle: Nanoresearch could lead to next generation of transistors
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, the transistors inside radios, televisions and other everyday items have transmitted data by controlling the movement of the electron’s charge. Scientists now have discovered ...
Fujitsu Develops Technology for High-Reliability Gallium Nitride HEMT
Jun 22, 2007 |
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Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of a new high-reliability technology for high power gallium nitride (GaN) high electron-mobility transistors (HEMT), paving the way for commercialization ...
SEMATECH and NIST Collaborate on Chemical Analysis of Advanced Gate Dielectrics
May 30, 2007 |
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Nitrogen incorporation in thin HfO2/SiO2 film systems representative of high-k gate dielectric layers in advanced metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has been investigated by synch ...
Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...
Electron self-injection into an evolving plasma bubble
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Particle accelerators are among the largest and most expensive scientific instruments. Thirty years ago, theorists John Dawson and Toshiki Tajima proposed an idea for making them thousands of times smaller: ...
A light touch: Iron complexes as efficient catalysts for the light-driven extraction of hydrogen from water
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen is a promising alternative energy carrier that can be efficiently converted into electrical energy in fuel cells. One hurdle to the introduction of sustainable hydrogen technology is the fact that ...
Nano-designed transistors with disordered materials, but high performance
May 02, 2008 |
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The Holy Grail for transistor designers has been the requirement to be able to get high performance at reduced costs over very large substrate areas. Transistors on cheap and flexible substrates like glass and plastics are ...
Putting a Strain on Nanowires Could Yield Colossal Results
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown that the selective placement ...
Tapering a Free-Electron Laser to Extract More Juice
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NSLS and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) have demonstrated a technique that could be used to significantly improve the quantity and quality of light ...
Measuring Electron Orbitals
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, it has been possible to measure electron density in individual molecular states using what is known as the photoelectric effect. Now published in Science, this method repres ...
