News articles tagged with 'transistor'
Biocompatible graphene transistor array reads cellular signals
— 2 Dec 2011 10:47 | TechnologyResearchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a graphene-based transistor array that is compatible with living biological cells and capable of recording the electrical signals…
Self-cooling observed in graphene electronics
— 4 Apr 2011 17:49 | TechnologyWith the first observation of thermoelectric effects at graphene contacts, University of Illinois researchers found that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces…
Is space like a chessboard?
— 19 Mar 2011 14:14 | PhysicsPhysicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space…
New transistors: An alternative to silicon and better than graphene
— 30 Jan 2011 19:04 | TechnologySmaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. In an article appearing online January 30 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, EPFL's Laboratory…
New transistor for plastic electronics exhibits the best of both worlds
— 27 Jan 2011 17:56 | TechnologyIn the quest to develop flexible plastic electronics, one of the stumbling blocks has been creating transistors with enough stability for them to function in a variety of environments…
Ultrathin alternative to silicon for future electronics
— 23 Nov 2010 17:35 | TechnologyThere's good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and…
Nanoscale probe reveals interactions between surfaces and single molecules
— 18 Nov 2010 10:45 | ChemistryAs electronics become smaller and smaller the need to understand nanoscale phenomena becomes greater and greater. Because materials exhibit different properties at the nanoscale than…
All-optical transistor
— 12 Nov 2010 15:03 | TechnologyControlling and modulating the flow of light is essential in today's telecommunications-based society. Professor Tobias Kippenberg and his team in EPFL's Laboratory of Photonics and…
Water could hold answer to graphene nanoelectronics
— 27 Oct 2010 11:14 | TechnologyResearchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for using water to tune the band gap of the nanomaterial graphene, opening the door to new graphene-based transistors…
Triple-mode transistors show potential
— 14 Oct 2010 10:09 | TechnologyRice University research that capitalises on the wide-ranging capabilities of graphene could lead to circuit applications that are far more compact and versatile than what is now feasible…