Researchers are closer to using tiny devices called semiconducting nanowires to create a new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Solid state chemistry routes to nanostructured materials such as semiconducting quantum structures, magnetic clusters, nanotubes, molecular magnets and optoelectronic devices. From Wordnik.com. [physicsworld.com: all content] Reference
"But they weren't used the way we'd use semiconducting materials.". From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
This fourth generation of polymers can exhibit semiconducting or even metallic properties. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Heeger - Banquet Speech] Reference
·Faster, denser semiconducting chips and "nanowires" for computers and electronic devices. From Wordnik.com. [Al Eisele: A New Silicon Valley on the Oklahoma Prairie?] Reference
This is not PV technology, in which semiconducting silicon converts light into electricity. From Wordnik.com. [Super Soaker Inventor Cuts Solar Power Costs « Isegoria] Reference
InVisage replaced silicon in the sensor with quantum dots, semiconducting crystals that are nanometers in size. From Wordnik.com. [The Winners, Category by Category] Reference
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden grew "nanotrees" out of semiconducting materials, Science News reports. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: May 23, 2004 - May 29, 2004 Archives] Reference
Titanium is a popular choice in solar hydrogen research because it has the right semiconducting properties and it's resistant to water. From Wordnik.com. [Hydrogen Fuel Closer to Fruition] Reference
U.S. QuantumFilm, an image sensor for digital cameras that uses semiconducting nanocrystals to capture far more light than traditional sensors. From Wordnik.com. [2010 Technology Innovation Winners] Reference
Phosphorous is then diffused onto one side to create an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-n junction where the two semiconducting surfaces meet. From Wordnik.com. [Photovoltaics] Reference
Dan dragged me into ultra-fast pulsed laser spectroscopy and into fast-transient photoconductivity as probes of the excited states of semiconducting polymers. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Heeger - Autobiography] Reference
Slowly and painfully, with miniature extensible waldos, Chanda searched out the tiny burns in the Brain's cortex and scraped away the charred semiconducting ash. From Wordnik.com. [Covergent Series]
With modern techniques it is possible to build up well-defined, thin-layered structures of different semiconducting materials, in direct contact with each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000] Reference
Dan continues in his efforts to resolve the remaining fundamental scientific issues in the field of semiconducting polymers with creativity and with determination. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Heeger - Autobiography] Reference
Nanoscale microprocessors could get a big performance boost from a technique that enables semiconducting materials to be doped with useful impurities one atom at a time. From Wordnik.com. [Nano-Electronics Boosted Atom by Atom | Impact Lab] Reference
The trick is to print layer upon layer of conducting and semiconducting polymers in such a way that the circuitry the device requires is built up as part of the bodywork. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 5, 2003 - January 11, 2003 Archives] Reference
The metal gallium, which along with indium is used to make indium gallium arsenide . . . is the semiconducting material at the heart of a new generation of solar cells. From Wordnik.com. [Photovoltaics: (some more) depressing news] Reference
Amorphous silicon (a glassy alloy of silicon and about 10 percent hydrogen) was regarded as an insulator until 1974, when it was demonstrated to be a semiconducting material. From Wordnik.com. [4 Photovoltaics] Reference
Photovoltaic cells are constructed of semiconducting materials, usually silicon. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Today they come out mixed with semiconducting tubes, and the two must be separated. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference
Melosh says each device would require about a six-inch wafer of semiconducting material. From Wordnik.com. [Blah, Blah! Technology] Reference
They use a nanoscale hall of metallic or semiconducting mirrors, which confine the photon. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
"It's one of the most successfully used semiconducting polymers on the planet," Sumpter said. From Wordnik.com. [ACM TechNews] Reference
The production of magnetic semiconducting nanowires has so far been basic research, as Quan Li emphasizes. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
Tightbinding calculations show that armchair type can be semiconducting or metallic depending on width (chirality). From Wordnik.com. [Haddock Links] Reference
The treated wafer is then immersed in a solution of semiconducting carbon nanotubes, which are attracted to its surface. From Wordnik.com. [Next Big Future] Reference
Using only chemical reactants, engineers transformed semiconducting nanowires into a variety of useful, nanoscale materials. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Embedded in the center of the towers are some 100 quantum dots made from the semiconducting material indium gallium arsenide. From Wordnik.com. [R&D Mag - News] Reference
He is also investigating doping techniques that will take the guesswork out of growing metallic (conducting) or semiconducting SWNTs. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
Scientists have since been developing techniques to grow graphene like other semiconducting materials, but with little success until now. From Wordnik.com. [The Engineer - News] Reference
Other research teams have previously made nanogenerators out of inorganic semiconducting materials, such as zinc oxide or barium titanate. From Wordnik.com. [D Mag - News] Reference
The pillars are coated first with metal, then with a thin layer of semiconducting material such as amorphous silicon, and then with a layer of transparent conductive oxide. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference
"Graphene is a very hot material right now," said Song, who had teamed with Ci to investigate doping graphene with various materials to determine its semiconducting properties. From Wordnik.com. [Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment] Reference
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