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SKoreans demonstrate spin-injected field effect transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

South Korean scientists said Friday they had demonstrated a spin-injected field effect transistor in a high-mobility InAs heterostructure.


Scientists develop world’s smallest diamond transistor

Scientists develop world's smallest diamond transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed the world’s smallest diamond transistor.


NEC Succeeds in Fabrication of CNT Transistor Using Coating Process

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 13, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

NEC Corporation today announced the successful development of a carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor using a coating process. The basic operation of the new transistor with advanced characteristics has been verified, confirming ...


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Michigan Tech Team Models Molecular Transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when ...


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 ...


High-speed signal mixer demonstrates capabilities of transistor laser

High-speed signal mixer demonstrates capabilities of transistor laser

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Illinois have successfully demonstrated a microwave signal mixer made from a tunnel-junction transistor laser. Development of the device brings researchers ...


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 ...


Single-atom transistor discovered

Scientists build 'single-atom transistor'

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (35) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, ...


Searching for a single-electron source of standard quantized current

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 14, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (23) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- “More than fifteen years ago, efforts were made to come to some kind of practical and standard realization of single-electron sources of quantized current. However, it was too difficult to combine the wanted ...


‘Electron Trapping’ May Impact Future Microelectronics Measurements

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Using an ultra-fast method of measuring how a transistor switches from the “off” to the “on” state, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently reported that they have uncovered an unusual ...


Physicists create first superconductor hybrid nanoscale heat transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 25, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (51) | comments 0

Low temperature research has been at the forefront of cooling applications for quite some time. One project, a nanoscale heat transistor, has been built in Finland in cooperation with an Italian researcher at the Helsinki ...


Bioelectronics: Progress toward drug screening with a cell–transistor biosensor

Chemistry /

created Jun 25, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

To develop selective measurement techniques for diagnostics, drug research, and the detection of poisons, researchers would like to combine the high specificity of biochemical reactors with universal microelectronics.


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, ...


Memory in artificial atoms

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 07, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 1

Nanophysicists have made a discovery that can change the way we store data on our computers. This means that in the future we can store data much faster, and more accurate. Their discovery has been published in the scientific ...


Carbon-Nanotube Memory that Really Competes

Carbon-Nanotube Memory that Really Competes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Finland have created a form of carbon-nanotube based information storage that is comparable in speed to a type of memory commonly used in memory cards and USB "jump" drives.