Portland, Ore. – Semiconductor researchers have known since the 1950s that the quantum-confinement effects of tunnel diodes boost circuit speed and current handling while reducing component count and ...
Sean L. Rommel (IEEE Senior Member) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware. His Ph.D. work focused on the realization of a CMOS compatible ...
Australian semiconductor developer BluGlass has successfully demonstrated working tunnel junction laser diodes in a world-first proof-of-concept using its proprietary remote plasma chemical vapour ...
When you leaf through a basic electronics textbook, you’ll find chapters describing in detail the operation of the various components. Resistors, capacitors, inductors, and semiconductors. The latter ...
Quantum cybersecurity firm QuintessenceLabs (QLabs) has announced developing a full-entropy quantum random number generator (QRNG), by leveraging a "flaw" in diodes. QLabs said the flaw, a quantum ...
The tunnel diode may be making a comeback, following work at Ohio State University on silicon-based devices. A peak-to-valley current ratio of 4.0 has been achieved at room temperature in the SiGe ...
Some groups have coaxed modest numbers of electrons through plastics using quantum mechanical effects, but only by painstakingly manipulating individual molecules at cryogenic temperatures. But a ...