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New material for nanoscale computer chips

New material for nanoscale computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen have developed nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires. ...


Nanowire Formation

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...


New 'finFETS' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...


Life after silicon

Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon ...


Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips

Carbon nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 2

Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less ...


Large area transistors get helping hand from quantum effects

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers from the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan, and the Advanced Technology Institute of the University of Surrey today report that nano-designed transistors for the large area display and sensor application ...


Weixiao Huang

Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 13, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (105) | comments 13

Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 ...


Scientists Develop World's Fastest Graphene Transistor

Scientists Develop World's Fastest Graphene Transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Researchers today announced that they demonstrated the operation of graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies, and achieved the highest frequencies reported so far using this ...


Two chips in one: Researchers combine microprocessor materials

Two chips in one: Researchers combine microprocessor materials

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An MIT team led by Tomás Palacios, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has succeeded in combining two semiconductor materials, silicon ...


Organic flash memory developed

Organic flash memory developed

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a non-volatile memory that has the same basic structure as a flash memory but is made from cheap, flexible, organic materials.


Graphene used to create world's smallest transistor

Graphene used to create world's smallest transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (50) | comments 4

Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide.


Research shows there could be no end in sight for Moore's Law

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (39) | comments 13

The fast pace of growing computing power could be sustained for many years to come thanks to new research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) that is applying advanced techniques to magnetic semiconductors.


A bright future for plastics -- robot 'skin,' flexible laptops and electric posters

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 0

WITH market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry, from £1.5 billion to £15.5 billion, by 2014, it is no wonder that scientists and governments alike are keen ...


New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.


Could a paper transistor offer an alternative to silicon?

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology advances, scientists look for ways to enhance electronic applications and devices. Indeed, electronics are getting smaller and more diverse. And as this happens, there is an increased requirement ...