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Transistors in the Mobile Era
Transistors are the fundamental building blocks out of which all modern electronic devices are built. Invented in the early 1950s, transistors are the semiconductor switches that control and amplify electronic signals. As demand has grown over the years for greater performance from these devices, chipmakers have responded by packing wafers with twice as many of [...]
Cheap Separation Method of Graphene Developed
Recently an Innovative, environment friendly and cheap separation technology has been developed by the research team of Prof. Byung Jin Cho and Prof. Taek soo Kim. The research was initiated by Korea Research Foundation and the Ministry of Education and Science supported by Research Support Program and the Global Frontier program. It has been a [...]
In Focus: Efficient Electronics
Grid power is something that most of us take for granted. We do not really about where it comes from and how it is generated and are happy as long as we get it continuously without any major disturbances in the supply. Both modern domestic industrial needs though place incredible amount of demand on our [...]
Energy Efficient Transistors through Quantum Tunneling
Transistors are pretty much part of our daily lives. We may not understand them, and many of us might not even recognize one when they see it, but there are everywhere around us, hidden in the many electronic devices and gadgets we use daily. The current problem that plagues them though is that we have [...]
FUTUREWATCH: Transistors Made from Human Ingredients
The latest innovation of technology is the nano sized transistor made from organic materials found in the human body. Earlier silicon a semi-conductor formed the basis of modern technology including cellphones, computers and various other electronic devices but now this semi-conductor has become outdated. Recently researchers from Tel Aviv University have joined together different techniques [...]
When Are 3D Transistors Coming?
Imagine two micrographs side-by-side, one of a transistor from an Intel286 microprocessor from 1982 and one of a transistor from the brains ofthe latest smartphone. While they appear quite similar, the new one is100 times smaller. But conventional transistor scaling is reaching its limits. Beyond the 22nm technology node – sometime in the middle of [...]
The Incredibly Low and Ever-falling Price of Transistors
Applied Materials was highlighted in an article released byFORTUNE today about the incredibly low and ever-falling price oftransistors, the new kinds of jobs they are doing and the pervasivenessof the technology. Below is a brief excerpt of the article: For comparison, your brain and mine each contain about 100 billion neurons. By itself, that comparison doesn’t [...]