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UCLA touts 300GHz graphene transistors

We know graphene is the best thing since sliced gallium arsenide to hit the electronics industry, thanks to the speed with which... Read more

7 September, 2010

Researchers generate flying qubits in semiconductors

...issue of Nature Nanotechnology. It describes how the researcher used high purity gallium arsenide crystal to split an electron on to two paths simultaneously â... Read more

28 March, 2012
ARPA-E innovators push clean energy

ARPA-E innovators push clean energy

...company has developed a chip (black box at right) made on a gallium arsenide substrate that is part of the electronics needed to switch from... Read more

10 March, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

Delft researchers put qubits in a nanowire spin

...the spin-orbit link is shorter than has been demonstrated before, using Gallium Arsenide, the fact that the researchers have used a nanowire makes the... Read more

25 December, 2010

Going ga-ga for GaAs

...tiny gaps between atoms. It sounds like something from Star Trek, but gallium arsenide -- GaAs to its friends -- is a racehorse among semiconductors. Electrons zip... Read more

5 September, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

IBM paves way to 100GHz chips

...world, but it does use standard production techniques -- other devices, such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) transistors, are swifter but need specialist design and production tools... Read more

25 June, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Motorola mixes up chip chemistry for faster circuits

...of very fast devices by up to ten times. The technology layers gallium arsenide (GaAs) on top of silicon, marrying the very high speed of... Read more

4 September, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

Intel claims quantum leap in fibre-optic detectors

...a technology predominately made with what we call exotic materials — indium phosphide, gallium arsenide, lithium molybdate — which involves expensive processing, very low volumes and, more... Read more

8 December, 2008 by Alex Serpo

IBM claims optical computing breakthrough

...components made in more exotic materials, such as indium phosphide (InP) and gallium arsenide (GaAs), IBM said. The final integrated package is only 3.25mm... Read more

29 March, 2007 by Colin Barker

Spinning electrons will speed up chips

...turn generates the radio signal. Nogaret said that although research would use gallium arsenide semiconductors, the idea would be applicable to standard silicon production processes... Read more

23 June, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

New wireless tech promises gigabits in the home

If you dream of a world of ultra-high-speed networking faster than standards yet unborn, IBM has the first of a new breed of chip Read more

6 February, 2006 by Michael Kanellos and Rupert Goodwins

Quantum dots lead to entanglement breakthrough

...clock signal, essential for many applications in quantum computing." Mostly made from gallium arsenide, a common semiconductor already widely used in fast logic and optoelectronics... Read more

11 January, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

Intel unveils next-gen transistor plans

...spokesman said. The experimental transistors right now rest on a substrate of gallium arsenide, an expensive material used in some communication chips. The company will... Read more

8 December, 2005 by Michael Kanellos

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...high risk strategy for number crunching. Seymour Cray bet the farm on gallium arsenide being so much faster than silicon that it would give him... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...high risk strategy for number crunching. Seymour Cray bet the farm on gallium arsenide being so much faster than silicon that it would give him... Read more

25 November, 2005

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