Researchers at the University of California at Riverside have received a $1.5 million grant to encode data as charge-density waves instead of electrical current, thereby cutting the power requirements for digital electronic devices.
Further Reading
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
#MATERIALS: "Make Waves, Not Electricity, to Save Power"
Today the crystalline structures in microchips conduct electricity that wastes power by generating heat from friction as the electrons burrow through semiconductors to perform computations. Charge-density waves, on the other hand, burn less power by encoding data on modulations in the semiconductor's crystalline lattice.
Researchers at the University of California at Riverside have received a $1.5 million grant to encode data as charge-density waves instead of electrical current, thereby cutting the power requirements for digital electronic devices.
Further Reading
Researchers at the University of California at Riverside have received a $1.5 million grant to encode data as charge-density waves instead of electrical current, thereby cutting the power requirements for digital electronic devices.
Further Reading
