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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 ...


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, ...





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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.


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 ...


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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 ...


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, ...


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 ...


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

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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 ...


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 ...



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