Posts Tagged ‘silicon’

Nanowires Pave Way For Nanodevices

Written on 4 Dec, 2009 at 15:28 in Research | viewed 393 times | 0 Comments

Silicon nanowires are attracting significant attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for ever-smaller electronic devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these future devices, and a wide array of additional applications, will depend on the... (Continue reading)

Tunable Semiconductors Are Possible With Hot New Material Called Graphene

Written on 11 Jun, 2009 at 10:59 in Research | viewed 683 times | 0 Comments

Today’s transistors and light emitting diodes (LED) are based on silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors, which have fixed electronic and optical properties. Now, University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown that a form of carbon called graphene has an electronic structure... (Continue reading)