transistors

Northwestern transistors on space station

harminka — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:54:57 -0500

Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International Space Station for radiation testing.

Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip

harminka — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:51:23 -0500

Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 graduate’s invention could replace one of the most common pieces of technology in the world—the silicon transistor for high-power and high-temperature electronics.

Engineers make first active matrix display using nanowires

harminka — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:36:02 -0500

Engineers have created the first "active matrix" display using a new class of transparent transistors and circuits, a step toward realizing applications such as e-paper, flexible color monitors and "heads-up" displays in car windshields.

Switchyard for single electrons

harminka — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:10:27 -0600

PTB scientists achieved to transfer very small charge "packets", comprising a well-defined number of few electrons, between metallic electrons precisely by using a single-electron pump. A single-electron transistor, being able to resolve charge variations of a single electron or less, served as a charge detector to monitor the charge movement.

New kind of transistor radios shows capability of nanotube technology

harminka — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:39:46 -0600

Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it.

Unisantis, Institute of Microelectronics Develop 3D Transistor in Singapore

admin_huliq — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:34:44 -0600

New quantum dot transistor counts individual photons

harminka — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:12:17 -0500

A transistor containing quantum dots that can count individual photons (the smallest particles of light) has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Toshiba Announces World's Highest Output Power in Ku-band

harminka — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:01:06 -0500

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) power field effect transistor (FET) for the Ku-band (12GHz to 18GHz) frequency range that achieves an output power of 65.4W at 14.5GHz, the highest level of performance yet reported at this frequency band.

NEC to Enhance LCD Modules With White LED Backlight System

harminka — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:55:34 -0500

NEC LCD Technologies today introduced two new 6.5-inch (17cm-diagonal) amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) modules with high luminance and video graphics array (VGA) resolution.

Photon-transistors for future supercomputers

harminka — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:19:00 -0500

Scientist from the Niels Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen and from Harvard University have worked out a new theory which describe how the necessary transistors for the quantum computers of the future may be created. The research has just been published in the scientific journal Nature Physics.

First heat transistor

harminka — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:31:46 -0500

A team of physicists at the Low Temperature Laboratory in Helsinki, Finland have built the world's first heat transistor. A working prototype, which uses an electrical signal to control the flow of heat, measures only a few millionths of a meter across.

Microsemi: Radiation Hardened Transistor Line

Nymphadora — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:41:38 -0600