News articles tagged with 'arsenide'
Rice physicists discover ultrasensitive microwave detector
— 9 Dec 2010 17:06 | PhysicsPhysicists from Rice University and Princeton University have discovered how to use one of the information technology industry's mainstay materials - gallium arsenide semiconductors…
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…
Advance made toward communication, computing at 'terahertz' speeds
— 20 Jul 2010 12:29 | TechnologyPhysicists in the United States and Germany have discovered a way to use a gallium arsenide nanodevice as a signal processor at 'terahertz' speeds, the first time it's been used for…
Semiconductor manufacturing technique holds promise for solar energy
— 20 May 2010 15:36 | TechnologyThanks to a new semiconductor manufacturing method pioneered at the University of Illinois, the future of solar energy just got brighter. Although silicon is the industry standard semiconductor…
MIT researchers build first germanium laser
— 7 Feb 2010 16:29 | TechnologyMIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can emit wavelengths of light useful for optical communications. It's also the first germanium laser to operate…
University of Cincinnati researchers create all-electric spintronics
— 28 Oct 2009 13:25 | TechnologyA multidisciplinary team of UC researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means…
Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other
— 16 Sep 2009 14:31 | TechnologyIt is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both eccentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and…
Self-assembled nanowires could make chips smaller and faster
— 21 Apr 2009 12:46 | TechnologyResearchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels…
Argonne scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds
— 9 Jan 2009 15:12 | TechnologyScientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors…
Findings suggest nanowires ideal for electronics manufacturing
— 14 Nov 2008 20:34 | TechnologyResearchers have discovered that tiny structures called silicon nanowires might be ideal for manufacturing in future computers and consumer electronics because they form the same way…