News tagged with semiconducting
New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources
Dec 14, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...
Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics
Nov 26, 2009 |
4.6 / 5 (12) |
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 ...
Stretchable Nanotube Films May Advance Medical Electronics (Update)
May 04, 2009 |
3.6 / 5 (10) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues hindering the development of medical electronic devices capable of being implanted in the human body is the lack of suitable materials. Most semiconducting materials are ...
New, Unusual Semiconductor is a Switch-Hitter
Jan 30, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (17) |
8
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group in Germany has discovered a semiconducting material that can switch its semiconducting properties -- turning from one type of semiconductor to another -- via a simple change in temperature. ...
Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells
Jan 08, 2009 |
5 / 5 (6) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a simple chemical process, scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink," which can then be printed into ...
