FET transistors Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:46:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Ten Times Longer Battery Life Thanks to New Semiconductor Material https://www.greenoptimistic.com/field-effect-transistor-battery-life-20130131/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/field-effect-transistor-battery-life-20130131/#respond Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:46:24 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32408 Novel methods and materials that can be used in building integrated circuits have the potential to reduce power, which would ultimately lead to extending battery life of mobile applications up to 10 times. This was demonstrated by a team of researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology, international semiconductor consortium SEMATECH and Texas State University. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/field-effect-transistor-battery-life-20130131/feed/ 0 32408 Reinventing The Transistor: TFET Technology Reaches New Efficiency Heights https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tfet-transistor-efficiency-20120327/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tfet-transistor-efficiency-20120327/#respond Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:35:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=23664 Tunneling Field Effect transistors (TFETs) have been worked on for many years as an alternative to today’s FETs, which are the transistors used in power electronics including electric cars. The main advantage of TFETs over simple FETs is efficiency by the fact that it produces less heat. Now, researchers from University of Notre Dame, ID […]

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