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Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have discovered a way to make liquid flow vertically upward along a silicon surface, overcoming the pull of gravity, without pumps or other mechanical devices.In a paper in the journal Optics Express, professor Chunlei Guo and his assistant Anatoliy Vorobyev demonstrate that by carving intricate patterns in silicon with extremely short, high-powered laser bursts, they can get liquid to climb to the top of a silicon chip like it...
SAN JOSE, Calif. and CORK, Ireland, March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Prof. Roger W. Whatmore, CEO of Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, is in Silicon Valley this week, participating in a Trade and Investment Mission led by Ireland's Prime Minister, Brian Cowen. The Mission was organized by Enterprise Ireland, the Irish state agency responsible for the development and promotion of Ireland's indigenous business sector. Prof. Whatmore will present information on a recent technology...
GENEVA, March 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a leader in power applications, has announced innovative plastic air-cavity packages that enable high-power transistors for Radio-Frequency (RF) applications such as transceivers, broadcast equipment and MRI scanners to deliver performance and cost advantages over alternative devices in ceramic packages. Air-cavity packages provide high electrical isolation for silicon die, and are well suited for high-frequency,...
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM scientists today unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using pulses of light. As reported in the recent issue of the scientific journal Nature, this is an important advancement in changing the way computer chips talk to each other. View Animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWhcwVxI2sQ (Logo:...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $24.5 million to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, to head an ambitious, multi-institutional center that could one day lead to a million-fold reduction in power consumption by electronics.The researchers said such a dramatic increase in energy efficiency could allow the digital revolution to continue well beyond the limits that would otherwise be imposed by its growing demand for energy, and allow portable applications...
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, a committed leader that collaborates with technology companies to create breakthrough designs, has launched its latest generation power MOSFETs for synchronous DC-DC conversion. The seventh generation trench process in the Toshiba fast switching series, UMOS VII-H, enables a significant reduction in gate switch charge and on-state resistance (RDS(ON)) resulting in greater power efficiency. Please...
GENEVA, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a world leader in protection ICs, has announced the world's first device combining field signal-termination and protection functions, enabling designers of industrial control and building-automation equipment to increase system performance and EMI robustness while simultaneously cutting power consumption, size, and heat dissipation. Digital automation in factories and buildings helps companies collect detailed...
A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule. The team, which includes researchers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea, published their findings in the December 24 issue of the journal Nature.The team, including Mark Reed, the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Science at Yale, showed that a benzene molecule attached to gold contacts could behave just like a silicon...
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The new ECOMOS(TM) series of N-channel and P-channel MOSFETs from ROHM Semiconductor are designed to meet the prescribed operation at lower gate drive voltages that emerging generations of portable electronic devices require. ROHM's advanced proprietary processing has produced devices that exhibit RDS(ON) values as much as 90% lower than comparable devices when operated at ultra-low 1.5 V or 1.2 V gate drive (VGS( )) voltages. This improved electrical...
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Dielectrics and Substrates in Semiconductors: Technologies and Global Markets http://www.reportlinker.com/p0166827/Dielectrics-and-Substrates-in-Semiconductors-Technologies-and-Global-Markets.html Provides a comprehensive overview of the global market for dielectrics and substrates in semiconductors Covers low- and ultra-low-k solutions, including porous and...
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A transistor, made of a solid piece of semiconductor material, is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals. It has at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of transistor's terminals changes the current flowing through another pair of terminals. The transistor amplifies the signal since the controlled power can be much more than the controlling power. The transistor is a fundamental building block of...
A chip, also known as an integrated circuit, is a miniaturized electronic circuit consisting mainly of semiconductor devices and passive components, that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material. There are many different types of chips: microcircuit, microchip, silicon chip, etc. Integrated circuits are regularly used in present-day electronic equipment and have modernized the world of electronics. Computers, cellular phones, and other electronic...
Germanium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ge and atomic number 32. This is a lustrous, hard, silver-white, metalloid that is chemically similar to tin. Germanium forms a large number of organometallic compounds and is an important semiconductor material used in transistors. Notable characteristics Germanium is a hard, grayish-white element that has a metallic luster and the same crystal structure as diamond. In addition, it is important to note that...
