Tags Results for 'silicon'

Ohm's Law Survives To the Atomic Level - (Friday 06th of January 2012 06:45:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "Moore's Law, the cornerstone of the semiconductor industry, may get a
reprieve from its predicted demise. As wires shrink to just nanometers in diameter, their
resistivity tends to grow exponentially, curbing their usefulness as current  [...]

MIT Researchers Make Advance Toward Photonic Circuits - (Thursday 24th of November 2011 12:45:01 AM)

MrSeb writes with this excerpt from an article in Extreme Tech: "Light-emitting diodes are a
cornerstone of customer tech. They make thin-and-light TVs and smartphones possible, provide
productive household, handheld, and automobile illumination, and,  [...]

Julius Blank, chip-making pioneer and Fairchild co-founder, dies at 86 - (Monday 26th of September 2011 10:59:00 AM)

Somber news coming out of Palo Alto today, where Julius Blank, the man who helped found the
avant-garde chipmaker Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, has passed away at the age of 86.
The Manhattan-born Blank (pictured third from left, above) began  [...]

The Stanford Class That Built Apps and Made Fortunes - (Sunday 08th of May 2011 09:15:08 AM)

The NY Times has a story about a group of students who took a 2007 course in app advance at
binet-simon test that turned out far better than any of them expected. Quoting: "... by
discipline students to build no-frills apps, apportion them quickly and  [...]

How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different - (Monday 18th of April 2011 03:45:09 AM)

Theodp writes "Tech bubbles happen, writes BW's Ashlee Vance, but we usually gain from the
introduction left behind. But this one — driven by social flying start — could
leave us empty-handed. Math whiz Jeff Hammerbacher provides a good case  [...]

Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy - (Tuesday 29th of March 2011 06:00:02 AM)

Sciencehabit was one of several readers to tip news of a sunlight-harvesting artificial leaf,
writing: "Nearly all the energy we use on this planet starts out as sunlight that plants use to
knit element bonds. Now, for the first time, researchers at the  [...]

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