New Technology Fires Toshiba Screens
News Such technology is already used in smaller devices, including some handheld computers and cell phones, and offers higher quality images using fewer components--40 percent less, according to Toshiba--than its counterpart called amorphous silicon.
[October 9, 2001, 11:21]
Massive Parallel Processing For Low Cost A-SI Production
White Papers A large batch approach to the manufacturing of amorphous silicon photovoltaic modules is described. A cost analysis shows the cost of production to lie in the range $1-2/Wp depending largely on the labor content.
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Magnetised Protein Globules Talk In Binary Code
News Almost instantly, the silicon crystal beneath the probe becomes amorphous, and thus gets read as a 0. Molten silicon, designer molecules, and protein globules from a cow. A microscopic probe hovering above a piece of silicon quickly heats a point...
[July 26, 2004, 10:45]
Ovonic Memory A Reality At Last?
News The reflection will differ, depending on whether the molecules at that particular point are amorphous or arranged in a crystal. The challenge, however, has been in changing an amorphous bit to a crystalline one.
[March 17, 2005, 9:05]
IBM Changes Directions In Magnetic Memory
News Heating changes the crystalline material to amorphous. The difference on how the host computer interprets the crystalline and amorphous surfaces is registered as a 1 or a 0 in the computer. Grandis, a Silicon Valley start-up, is also trying to...
[August 20, 2007, 9:45]
Infineon And IBM In Ovonic Collaboration
News Phase change memory involves changing the underlying structure of a material, often by heating it rapidly, so that it's crystalline one moment and amorphous the next. By switching from making chips out of silicon, companies hope to reduce their...
[May 24, 2005, 15:45]
