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... organic transponder chip which drives the modulation transistor between the on and off state with a 64bit code sequence. The foil ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2008 - 10:43pm - 1 attachment

... frequency. The nanodevice is essentially a single electron transistor which works as a simple single-electron turnstile. Its best ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2007 - 9:30am - 1 attachment

... (TKK) have developed and fabricated a nanoscale heat transistor, and simultaneously the smallest refrigerator ever made. The ... metal-superconductor structure enables its use as a heat transistor. For your six pack of atoms. Credit: N. Miller, A. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2007 - 4:17pm - 1 attachment

... – rocks! “When I was a young kid, I got a transistor radio as a gift and it was the greatest thing I could imagine - ... I was just as excited as I was when I first turned on that transistor radio as a kid.” The carbon nanotube radio consists of an ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2007 - 2:53pm - 0 attachments

A transistor containing quantum dots that can count individual photons (the ... 3 photons at least 83 percent of the time. It is the first transistor-based detector to count numbers of photons; most other types of ... of photons. NIST's modified field-effect transistor can count single photons, or particles of light. When light enters ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2007 - 11:16pm - 1 attachment

... units will be one thousandth the size of a transistor so many more could be packed into the same space. More logic gates ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2007 - 12:28pm - 0 attachments

... all of those big vacuum tubes and wires" Next came the transistor and finally the silicon chip, which dramatically revolutionized ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2007 - 5:10pm - 0 attachments

... today. It's not as fast as the time-scale you get for a transistor to switch." (A nanosecond is one-billionth of a second.) During that ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 16 2007 - 1:40pm - 1 attachment

... onto a greased platform. On the surface layer of a transistor, ICPs make good electrical conductors that provide the switch element for a transistor to turn on and off. But ICPs are by nature brittle. To counter this ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2007 - 1:27pm - 0 attachments

... practical for portable battery-powered devices. "In a transistor, you are trying to turn it off and on, like a switch," Janes said. "But unlike a wall switch in your house, a transistor never really turns completely off. There is always a little bit of ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2007 - 9:51pm - 0 attachments