Recent Posts Tagged With 'electronics'

• Microwaves from CMOS Chips – Replace X-rays in Imaging Systems

  Posted on Saturday May 31st, 2008 at 11:08 in electronics, medical imaging, microwaves, x-ray, replace, medical gadget, cmos chip, medical imaging system, nonlinear constructive interference

  in a square lattice designed to create nonlinear interference, low-power signals from the bottom and side combine many wave peaks into one with a much higher amplitude. (Credit: Image courtesy of Cornell University) In medical imaging systems and sec...

• Graphene Nanoribbon Field effect Transistor - For Speedier Computer Chips

  Posted on Saturday May 31st, 2008 at 06:15 in electronics, nanotechnology, computer hardware, silicon, computer chip, graphene, field effect transistor, nanoribbon

  A schematic of graphene nanoribbon field-effect transistor with palladium contacts (S,D) on a 10 nm thick insulating silicon dioxide surface (purple). Beneath the Si02 layer is a highly conductive silicon layer (G). (Credit: Image courtesy of Dai Gro...

• Receive Radio Signals Using a Single Carbon Nanotube: Smallest Radio Receiver

  Posted on Monday May 26th, 2008 at 10:41 in electronics, nanotechnology, mobile technology, university of california, carbon nanotube, medical gadget, smallest of all, alex zettl, radio receiver, radio signal

  This nanotube radio is over nineteen orders-of-magnitude smaller than the Philco vacuum tube radio from the 1930s! (Courtesy Zettl Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley.) A group...

• GAN Transistors In, Silicon Transistors Out

  Posted on Saturday May 24th, 2008 at 08:00 in electronics, mosfet, gan transistor, replace silicon, silicon transistor, weixiao huang

  (Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Weixiao Huang, a doctoral student in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has recently come up with a brilliant invention that could almost alter the performance of each and every power electronics system in th...