News tagged with electron leakage

Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'

(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.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 14




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An electronic green thumb

If sensors are supposed to communicate with each other to compare the measured data and to secure them, then, in the future, a network of distributed sensor nodes will aid in that: the network ensures a problem-free communication ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Universal transistor serves as a basis to perform any logic function

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of today’s electronics devices contain two different types of field-effect transistors (FETs): n-type (which use electrons as the charge carrier) and p-type (which use holes). Generally, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 17 | with audio podcast feature

Carbon nanoparticles break barriers -- and that may not be good

A study by researchers from the schools of science and medicine at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis examines the effects of carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) on living cells. This work is among ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Invention saving consumers trillions of watt hours and millions of dollars

A University of California, San Diego technology that significantly reduces the amount of energy wasted by chips in computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices has recently passed the trillion watt-hour ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

1.29 million customers' data stolen from Sega (Update)

Hackers have stolen the personal data of some 1.29 million customers of the Japanese game maker Sega, the company said Sunday, in a theft via a website of its European unit.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 440 commercial nuclear reactors in use worldwide are currently helping to minimize our consumption of fossil fuels, but how much bigger can nuclear power get? In an analysis to be published ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (48) | comments 187 | with audio podcast report

Intel redesigns transistors for faster computers

Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it has redesigned the electronic switches on its chips so that computers can keep getting cheaper and more powerful.

Electronics / Hardware

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 13

Minister: China pollution remains 'very serious'

(AP) -- Pollution in China remains very serious as the country's rapid economic growth brings on new environmental problems, with nearly 1,000 contamination incidents in the last five years, a minister said Saturday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Panasonic develops gallium nitride (GaN) power transistor on silicon with blocking-voltage-boosting structure

Panasonic today announced the development of a new technique to drastically increase the blocking voltage of Gallium Nitride (GaN) -based power switching transistor on silicon (Si) substrates. The blocking ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imec reports progress in deep sub-micron scaling for logic and memory

At the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco Imec's advanced CMOS research program reports promising advances in scaling logic, DRAM and non-volatile memory.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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