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IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye |
Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Alexander Hellemans |
Nanowire Transistors Could Keep Moore's Law Alive Researchers are perfecting ways to produce gate-all-around devices |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa |
Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Gurnett & Adams |
Merging the Functionalities of Silicon, and III-Vs: Two Promising Approaches One of the least flexible rules in electronic design is the need to keep silicon devices, and compound semiconductor devices separate. Two new developments are now threatening to make this rule partly or entirely obsolete. |
CIO January 1, 2003 Matthew W. Beale |
Unseen Stripes Imagine a nanowire -- 10,000 times thinner than a human hair -- that can function as a transistor, a light-emitting diode, a biochemical sensor and many other devices, all along a single candy-striped strand. |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Gold Sets Nanowires Straight Mass-producing nanodevices may become a reality now that scientists in the US have demonstrated a new way of making millions of tiny electronic components at once. |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 |
Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors. |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 |
Nanowire Makes Standup Transistor Researchers have devised a simple way to make a set of vertical transistors from nanowires. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Harry Goldstein |
GaAsing Up Cellphones Gallium arsenide transistors could power tiny, blazingly fast multimedia handsets. |
Technology Research News June 16, 2004 |
Silicon Nanowires Grown in Place Researchers have found a way to grow nanowires between pairs of metal electrodes deposited on silicon wafers. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage |
Light at the End of the Chip IBM's low-power germanium photodetectors may bring optical interconnects to microprocessors |
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Neil Savage |
Silicon Nanowires Turn Heat to Electricity Thermoelectric converters could tap waste heat from power plants and microchips. |
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 |
Hybrid Nanowire Makes Transistor One challenge in making minuscule electronic devices from nanoscale components is wiring the components together. Researchers have found a way to transform sections of semiconducting silicon nanowires into metallic, or conducting, nickel silicide. |
Technology Research News July 16, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Cheaper optics-chip link on tap One of the best ways to speed up the Internet would be to extend all the way to the home the fiber-optic lines that make up the Net's backbone. One piece of the fiber-to-the-home puzzle is a low-cost way of converting light pulses to electrical signals. A new semiconductor may do the trick. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Wager & Hoffman |
Thin, Fast, and Flexible Semiconductors Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today's silicon standby. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al. |
The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s. |
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Getting the Dope on a Single Atom of Dopant Scientists have successfully probed the electronic and quantum mechanical properties of a single atom of dopant in a silicon transistor. The research could provide important information necessary for the development of quantum computers. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz |
Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Richard Stevenson |
Winner: NanoGaN's Crystal Method NanoGaN's substrates will grow better, cheaper lasers |
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 |
Process orders nanowire arrays Harvard University researchers have found a way to neatly layer and pattern rows of nanowires. |
Chemistry World November 19, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Colourful future for nanowires Dutch scientists have worked out how to fine tune the stripes of alternating crystal lattices that form in semi-conducting nanowires. |
Industrial Physicist Avouris & Appenzeller |
Electronics and Optoelectronics with Carbon Nanotubes Evaluating the potential of carbon nanotubes as the basis of a future nanoelectronics technology. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Sarah Adee |
Transistors Go Vertical The semiconductor industry fights silicon sprawl by building up, not out. Today's CMOS transistor is planar, but chip makers are exploring more power-efficient three-dimensional structures as well as a planar structure with two gates. |
InternetNews September 18, 2006 David Needle |
Intel Sees The Laser Light Intel announced its latest research designed to create a super-fast hybrid silicon processor capable of moving data at terabits-per-second speed. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl |
The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing |
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 |
Crystal structure tunes nanowires A new process that controls the crystal structure of nanowires made from specific semiconductors may enable electronic components, such as light-emitting diodes and laser diodes, with tunable properties. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Sally Adee |
The Fastest, the Smallest, and the Strangest at IEDM This year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, as usual, is largely a race to the bottom |
Scientific American August 2005 Steven Ashley |
Making Light of Silicon Scientists at UCLA and Intel have obtained coherent photons of light from silicon. This low cost alternative to "exotic" semiconductor materials currently used as lasers will pave the way for many technological advances. |
Wired October 2001 Wil McCarthy |
Ultimate Alchemy Research into artificial atoms could lead to one startling endpoint: programmable matter that changes its makeup at the flip of a switch... |
Chemistry World September 2, 2007 Lewis Brindley |
Nanoparticles Paint a Finer Picture Swiss scientists have developed a process that can print detailed images using nanoparticles as 'ink', while maintaining their catalytic and optical properties. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Samuel K. Moore |
Masters of Memory Swiss firm Innovative Silicon crams 5 megabytes of RAM into the space of one. Their chip is called called Z-RAM, and if it grabs even a little piece of the on-chip memory market, it will change the ground rules for microprocessor design and will quickly become a company to be reckoned with. |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 |
Nanowire Computer Circuits Debut Researchers have found a way to paint molecular-size circuitry onto glass. The method is potentially very low-cost, and could eventually be used to make computer chips that pack extremely tiny and thus powerful circuits. |
Chemistry World May 9, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Cracks break the rules of nanofabrication When it comes to nanofabrication, cracks are usually best avoided. But now researchers in South Korea have discovered that cracks aren't always bad - if harnessed, they can be used to make controlled patterns. |
Chemistry World November 18, 2014 Tim Wogan |
New silicon allotrope could revolutionize solar cells A new, direct band gap allotrope of silicon has been synthesized by researchers in the US. It could potentially revolutionize solar cells and light-emitting devices. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Laser on Silicon Scientists have managed to combine an indium-phosphide light emitter and a silicon chip to produce a hybrid laser that, years from now, could lead to cheap terabit-per-second connections within and around computers. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2010 James Urquhart |
Disilicate synthesis success A compound containing a stable silicon-silicon bond between two negatively charged pentacoordinated silicon atoms - silicates - has been synthesized and isolated for the first time by Japanese researchers. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Silicon Nanowire Boost for Rechargeable Batteries Scientists in the US have devised an easy way of using silicon nanowires to increase the capacity of lithium batteries. |
The Motley Fool October 11, 2005 Dan Bloom |
Intel's Optical Breakthrough The chipmaker may open new tech frontiers by teaching silicon and light to cooperate. |
Chemistry World January 9, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
A Silicon Surprise Two teams of US scientists have demonstrated silicon-based 'thermoelectric' materials that could convert waste heat back into electricity. |
InternetNews December 7, 2004 Michael Singer |
IBM Perks Up Memory, Transistors The company shrinks its SRAM and adds a dash of germanium fuel to its chips. |
Chemistry World July 3, 2012 Simon Perks |
Ultrafast transistors created in a vacuum Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, US, have come up with a new type of transistor that uses a vacuum to conduct electrons a hundred times faster than the conventional solid-state version. |
Technology Research News February 9, 2005 |
Silicon nanocrystal transistor shines A nanocrystal field-effect light-emitting device (FELED) could be used to integrate light sources on computer chips. This would allow the light sources and control circuits of display and communications device to be fabricated together, making for a faster, cheaper manufacturing process. |
Chemistry World September 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Artificial skin gets touchy New ways of incorporating pressure sensors into large, flexible surfaces which could one day provide robots or people fitted with artificial hands with a delicate sense of touch |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 |
Nanowires span silicon contacts One challenge in making electronics at the size-scale of molecules is finding ways to position and attach nanowires to the tiny components. Researchers from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories have succeeded in growning nanowires between electrodes. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2011 Ozpinec & Tolbert |
Silicon Carbide: Smaller, Faster, Tougher Meet the material that will supplant silicon in hybrid cars and the electric grid |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Silicon Chip Laser Goes Continuous Useful lasers made from silicon would make it possible to move data between and within computer chips using light rather than electricity. This would make for faster chips that could be more tightly integrated with optical communications equipment. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Neil Savage |
Cheaper LEDs Possible by Growing Gallium Nitride on Silicon Engineers take a step toward cheaper solid-state lighting. |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature. |
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Michael Singer |
HP Plots Its Nano Course Company believes in moving computing beyond silicon to the world of molecular-scale electronics. |