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Even though sales aren't going to begin until April 29, Intel has officially spoken of its first central processing units based on the 22nm manufacturing process.
Thirteen third-generation chips have been revealed, most of which are aimed at desktops, although the high-end laptop parts are there as well.
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23 April 2012
10:42 GMT |
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In a paper published in the latest issue of the top scientific journal Nature Physics, experts from the Chalmers University of Technology (CUT) demonstrate a quantum microphone (noise detector) that can pick up extremely faint sounds.
The new paper could be of great use to physicists seeking to uncover new phenomen... |
27 February 2012
10:25 GMT |
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A group of experts in Australia and the United States have built the world's smallest possible transistor. The device is basically a single-atom. The achievement proves that Moore's Law of miniaturization can be bypassed.
The transistor is made up of a single phosphorous atom, and was developed by experts... |
20 February 2012
05:40 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, announce the creation of the world's smallest carbon nanotube transistors, a device that measures only 9 nanometers across. That is the equivalent of 9 billionths of a meter. As the drive towards miniaturizing electronics... |
26 January 2012
10:25 GMT |
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Nobel laureate Alexander Fleming discovered that tears contain molecules called lysozymes, which act as disinfectants, destroying bacteria that are far larger in size. A group of investigators at the University of California in Irvine (UCI) was recently able to figure out precisely how tears are able to do that.
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20 January 2012
04:54 GMT |
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Rice University investigators – known for their leading role in studying graphene – propose a new use for the 2D, single-atom-thick carbon compound, this time as a free-standing wall placed on future generations of electronic devices.
Graphene wall arrays could be fashioned into ultrahigh d... |
27 September 2011
18:01 GMT |
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For many years, the power supply voltage required to store charge in a capacitor remained stuck at 1 volt. As computers improved, this limitation made transistors run at increasingly hot temperatures, reducing the machine's efficiency. Researchers in the United States now think they can change this.
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13 September 2011
03:43 GMT |
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Scientists at the Purdue University announce the development of graphene inverters that work at room temperature, a considerable improvement from the past generation of such materials. The latter needed temperature as low as minus 196 degrees Celsius (minus 320ºFahrenheit) to operate.
An inverter is a critic... |
7 September 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Electrical engineers working at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, recently announced they have created the world's first transistors and logical gates built using nano-diamond films, a breakthrough which could lead to the development of higher performing and more energy efficient computer chips.... |
10 August 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Florida announce the development of a new type of transistor that is made entirely out of carbon nanotubes (CNT). The innovation could be used to create an advanced generation of TV and computer screens, experts believe. The CNT-based transistor could become the next big thing in TV t... |
29 April 2011
08:19 GMT |
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For quite a while now graphene has been the object of many studies as scientists try to better understand this material and use it as a replacement for silicon in future computer chips, and a recent discovery comes to strengthen graphene's role in transistor manufacturing since researchers have just found out th... |
6 April 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Physicists at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have recently demonstrated the existence of a nanoscale cooling effect inside transistors made of graphene. These structures are apparently capable of reducing their own temperatures, the team reveals. These are the first observations of such thermoe... |
4 April 2011
02:48 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United Kingdom announce that they were able to use one of the newest materials in the world to develop a transistor that features an on/off switching ratio 1,000 times higher than any other currently available on the market.The team, based at the University of Southampton, used the 2... |
31 January 2011
19:31 GMT |
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French researchers with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) propose in a new article that using molybdenite instead of silicon or graphene could allow for the creation of smaller, cheaper, more energy-efficient electronic chips, and other electronic devices. The proposal is detail... |
31 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new discovery, a team of investigators managed to develop a new technique for producing graphene-based transistors and nanoelectronics, which relies on the use of simple water for tuning the material's band gap.Developing methods of doing this is of paramount importance for the electronics in... |
26 October 2010
10:26 GMT |
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Investigators have recently discovered that producing graphene-based circuits at a large scale has the potential to revolutionize the electronics industry, augmenting its capabilities beyond what is currently possible with silicon-based materials. If the new carbon compound starts being used on a large scale, it coul... |
14 October 2010
02:27 GMT |
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Scientists in the United States announce the development of a new type of electromechanical switches, that have twice the heat resistance of conventional electronic transistors.This means that the EMS can survive in the scorching temperatures that form in the wake of a jet engine, or perhaps even on the Sun-facing si... |
12 October 2010
04:46 GMT |
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Scientists have finally developed a method that allows them to integrate graphene-based transistors into existing electronic devices, such as cell phones, radios, computers, and laptops.Adding the innovative, one-atom-thick carbon compound holds great promise for the industry, which may develop considerably as a resu... |
3 September 2010
09:43 GMT |
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New advancements in science finally allowed investigators to create small transistors that can easily collect chemical and electrical readings from inside living cells. The biological probes (bioprobes) are basically biocompatible nanometer-scaled transistors that are extremely sensitive to the various signals consta... |
13 August 2010
10:04 GMT |
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Years ago, when Moore's Law first appeared, it predicted that the number of transistors that will be fitted on a computer microprocessor will be doubled once every couple of years. The trick is to do so inexpensively and constantly, and modern technology is beginning to reach the limits of transistor miniaturiza... |
8 June 2010
10:46 GMT |
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A group of experts at the Rice University in the United States announces the development of a new method for producing the famous field-effect transistors (FET), the basic units of integrated circuits that make advanced electronic devices possible. The scientists say that they used ink-jet printers to produce thin fi... |
26 May 2010
06:39 GMT |
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Ever since computers were invented and developed, numerous scientists and science-fiction authors alike have been fantasizing about connecting the two. We are not talking about cyborgs necessarily, but about allowing humans to interact with machines directly, at a cellular level, without the need for cumbersome perip... |
20 May 2010
09:50 GMT |
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In a finding that could bring the goal of constructing a quantum computer closer to reality, researchers have recently developed a new, single-atom-based system that they are calling a “quantum optical transistor.” The physics team, based at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, in Germany, and led ... |
18 May 2010
03:10 GMT |
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For many years, optical physicists have been trying to produce a class of advanced instruments known as electrically-pumped organic lasers, which could be used for a variety of applications. Over time, several groups attempted to use organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) to achieve this purpose, but the efficiency the... |
3 May 2010
07:06 GMT |
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The quest to construct computers that emulate the way the human mind works has been going on for quite some time now. However, progress has been slow due to the sheer complexity of the cortex, which is capable of many great feats, associations and recollections, at the same time. Now, scientists have taken an importa... |
16 February 2010
10:08 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking innovation that could see the widespread adoption of plastic-based bendable displays, researchers at a company called Phicot have managed to develop a new method of printing silicon transistors on flexible plastics. This could finally erase the obstacles plaguing the industry, the largest of which... |
1 February 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Graphene is widely believed to be the material of choice for tomorrow's electronic devices, with the sole factor that could get in the way being the fact that current production methods do not allow for its production on a large scale. But a group of experts announces the development of a new production method f... |
1 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Experts at NXP Semiconductors, in the Netherlands, announce that they have finally managed to achieve one of the most elusive goals of modern physics, namely to produce a heat engine that functions at the microscopic scale. Heat engines are among the most important devices our society and civilization rely upon. Thei... |
22 January 2010
14:01 GMT |
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The dream of a European research group, once thought to be something pertaining to science-fiction, may actually represent the basis of a new class of optoelectronic devices. According to experts, the innovation proposed by the team could result in massive improvements being brought to a wide array of research fields... |
4 January 2010
08:32 GMT |
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Scientists from the Yale University, in the United States, and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, in South Korea, have recently managed to demonstrate the first molecular transistor made out of a single molecule. The finding could have significant implications for the field of electronics research, as i... |
28 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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One of the main engines of our civilization as we know it is the miniaturization of the transistor, the main gateway inside microprocessors. Over the past couple of decades, the race has been on to produce the smallest, most efficient transistors, and also to fit as many of them as possible in a small space. But, at ... |
10 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Experts at the Helsinki University of Technology, in Finland, the University of New South Wales, in Australia, and the University of Melbourne announce the development of a single-atom transistor. The component works by sequentially channeling a flow of electrons through the same phosphorus atom, the team says. The a... |
7 December 2009
02:17 GMT |
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Since modern transistors appeared, they were hailed as one of the greatest inventions of our times. As their sizes got smaller, and more could be fit on a silicon chip, the power exhibited by computers increased considerably. But experts warned that, at one point, the miniaturization would reach a limit, under which ... |
5 December 2009
05:06 GMT |
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Scientists at the Stanford University announce the completion of a new class of electronic devices, fully biodegradable organic transistors. The materials hold great promise for the field of medicine, where they could be used to control temporary medical implants, before being harmlessly absorbed within the organism ... |
14 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) have recently come up with a new use for an existing electrical conductor, a material that allows electrical currents to flow through it. By changing its orientation inside devices, the material can now be turned into a thin-film isolator that blocks current, but that ... |
10 November 2009
06:37 GMT |
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Over recent years, the level of miniaturization in the electronics industry has increased considerably, with circuits now being printed in the millions on just a few square centimeters. With these advancements, researchers have also made headway in the field of implantable electronic devices, such as cochlear and ret... |
5 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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Semiconductor chips, which could be rightfully dubbed the “backbone” of modern society, are at the very foundation of a number of electronic devices including microchips and other circuits. They essentially keep the world moving today and are of invaluable use to humans in most aspects of life. In spite o... |
5 November 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Cincinnati have recently discovered an innovative, new method of controlling the spin orientation of electrons – an area of research known as spintronics – using nothing more than electrical means. This has long since been hypothesized as possible, but has never been scient... |
28 October 2009
04:23 GMT |
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Ithaca, New York-based company Orthogonal is currently working on an innovation that will allow organic electronics to be manufactured from the same equipment that currently produces silicon electronics. This line of research could bring about a new wave of innovation in the electronics industry, as organic semicondu... |
27 October 2009
09:39 GMT |
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Nanoscale sensors can be used for a wide variety of applications, in fields such as detecting dangerous molecules, or for sensing sounds in artificial ears. Their main drawback is the fact that they need to be integrated in larger devices, consisting of bulky power sources and integrated circuits, which considerably ... |
29 September 2009
06:40 GMT |
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Organic electronics, plastic electronics or polymer electronics are the names given to a new branch of electronic products that relies on polymers and molecules based on carbon for its traits. The carbon is the main chemical element that found life on the planet, hence the term “organic.” Experts say that... |
29 September 2009
04:50 GMT |
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According to an international science group, the now-renowned carbon compound known as graphene can be turned into a highly efficient semiconductor material through a simple tug. The experts, from the University of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, the Institute of Materials Science, in Madrid, Spain, and the Univer... |
28 September 2009
10:05 GMT |
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There is no doubt in any reasonable person's mind that the future of electronics will be entirely based on nanostructures, from wires to switches. Carbon nanotubes are one possible line of development, but their silicon-based counterparts are not far behind, as evidenced by the research conducted by IBM expert F... |
1 September 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the innovations that will make the computers and electronics of tomorrow run faster and better will consist of printed circuits. Experts have already devised organic circuits that are cheap, efficient and printable, but the trouble is that, unlike their inorganic counterparts, they require two mat... |
24 August 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFET) are among the latest developments of the relatively new plastic micro-electronics technology. These structures are constructed on organic materials, and also feature electronic components. Creating this type of transistors in a way that is both cost-effective... |
12 August 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Back in 2004, when a research group at the University of Manchester first discovered the amazing carbon compound graphene, the world of physics was in a state of shock. The new material had amazing and unbelievable properties, including one-atom thickness, super strength, and a high-efficiency electrical conductibili... |
1 August 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Over recent years, designing the best possible chip architecture – forcing as many transistors and connections on an ever-smaller microchip in an optimum manner – has become so complex, that many designers have simply outsourced their job to supercomputers. The machines browse through billions of arrangem... |
29 July 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Moore's Law has been the sacred rule of the computing hardware industry since its announcement in 1965. Basically, it states that the number of transistors in an average processor, for example, will increase exponentially, with the number doubling once every two years. However, it has been known that the pace of... |
24 July 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Optical computers have been envisioned for quite some time now, but creating one is not as easy as dreaming about it. There are a number of obstacles to be overcome in this endeavor, and one of the largest is the size of the transistors making it up. But this shortcoming may have been resolved, as researchers from ET... |
6 July 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Scientists at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have recently discovered a fundamental flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, which is a phenomenon that appears inside a transistor's on and off switch. The team that found the problem says that, unless solved, the iss... |
22 May 2009
10:57 GMT |
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