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New plasma transistor could create sharper displays

New plasma transistor could create sharper displays

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- By integrating a solid-state electron emitter and a microcavity plasma device, researchers at the University of Illinois have created a plasma transistor that could be used to make lighter, ...


Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor

Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (84) | comments 8

Since their development in the 1940s, transistors have been at the heart of computers and other modern electronic devices. Transistors - whose job is to start, stop, or amplify electric current - come in all ...


Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma

Upping the power triggers an ordered helical plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

If you keep twisting a straight elastic string, at some moment it starts kinking in a wild way. Something similar occurs when one increases the electrical current flowing in a magnetized plasma doughnut: it ...


New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes

New Flexible, Transparent Transistors made of Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 27, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (77) | comments 0

The ability to create flexible, transparent electronics could lead to a host of novel applications, such as e-paper and electronic car windshields. Now, scientists have constructed a transistor made of a network ...


Cool plasma packs heat against biofilms

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9

Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth. But it's not ...


TSMC Qualifies Applied Materials' Gate Stack System for Its Leading-Edge 65nm Transistor Processes

Technology /

created May 06, 2005 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has qualified the Applied Centura Gate Stack system with DPN (decoupled plasma nitridation) technology for all of its 65nm-generation ...


HIV-1's 'hijacking mechanism' pinpointed by researchers

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital - along with colleagues at the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia ...


Signs of ideal surfing conditions spotted in ocean of solar wind

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Warwick have found what could be the signal of ideal wave "surfing" conditions for individual particles within the massive turbulent ocean of the solar wind. The discovery ...


With stimulus aid, scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where ...


Roadrunner supercomputer models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure ...


High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 48

In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability ...


Scientists obtain clearer view of how eye lens proteins are sorted

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research reveals how proteins that are critical for the transparency of the eye lens are properly sorted and localized in membrane bilayers. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 3rd issue of Biophysical Jo ...


U.S. ITER awards contracts worth $33 million for materials for ITER's largest magnets

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has awarded two contracts totaling $33.6 million for 8,270 km of niobium tin strand and 4,795 km of copper strand for the Toroidal Field Conductor, ...


Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of "nanolithography" required to make future computer chips.


Ad Astra VASIMR

Plasma Rocket Could Travel to Mars in 39 Days

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (125) | comments 72

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Wednesday, the Ad Astra Rocket Company tested what is currently the most powerful plasma rocket in the world. As the Webster, Texas, company announced, the VASIMR VX-200 engine ran at ...