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It's likely referring to the power generating capacity of the electrical generator. The steam turbine is likely done by another company rather than the electrical manufacturer.
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It's likely referring to the power generating capacity of the electrical generator. The steam turbine is likely done by another company rather than the electrical manufacturer.
Article is in Chinese and I don't exactly understand the whole article.
But apparently Chinese scientists have developed a laser camera capable of distinguish observed objects by resolving a single pixel image, using some sort of quantum theory where information gathered from that single pixel is used to infer details of the whole image.
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CHIP TECH
The '50-50' chip: Memory device of the future?
by Staff Writers
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 17, 2013
This is an image of the phase-change memory arrays. Credit: SIMIT/Xilin Zhou.
A new, environmentally-friendly electronic alloy consisting of 50 aluminum atoms bound to 50 atoms of antimony may be promising for building next-generation "phase-change" memory devices, which may be the data-storage technology of the future, according to a new paper published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, which is produced by AIP Publishing.
Phase-change memory is being actively pursued as an alternative to the ubiquitous flash memory for data storage applications, because flash memory is limited in its storage density and phase-change memory can operate much faster.
Phase-change memory relies on materials that change from a disordered, amorphous structure to a crystalline structure when an electrical pulse is applied. The material has high electrical resistance in its amorphous state and low resistance in its crystalline state -- corresponding to the 1 and 0 states of binary data.
Flash memory has problems when devices get smaller than 20 nanometers. But a phase-change memory device can be less than 10 nanometers -- allowing more memory to be squeezed into tinier spaces.
"That's the most important feature of this kind of memory," said Xilin Zhou of the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Data can also be written into phase-change memories very quickly and the devices would be relatively inexpensive, he added.
So far, the most popular material for phase-change memory devices contains germanium, antimony, and tellurium. But compounds with three elements are more difficult to work with, Zhou said.
"It's difficult to control the phase-change memory manufacturing process of ternary alloys such as the traditionally used germanium-antimony-tellurium material. Etching and polishing of the material with chalcogens can change the material's composition, due to the motion of the tellurium atoms," explained Zhou.
Zhou and his colleagues turned to a material with just two elements: aluminum and antimony. They studied the material's phase-changing properties, finding that it's more thermally stable than the Ge-Sb-Te compound.
The researchers discovered that Al50Sb50, in particular, has three distinct levels of resistance -- and thus the ability to store three bits of data in a single memory cell, instead of just two. This suggests that this material can be used for multilevel data storage.
"A two-step resistance drop during the crystallization of the material can be used for multilevel data storage (MLS) and, interestingly, three distinct resistance levels are achieved in the phase-change memory cells," Zhou says.
"So the aluminum-antimony material looks promising for use in high-density nonvolatile memory applications because of its good thermal stability and MLS capacity."
The researchers are now investigating the endurance or reversible electrical switching of the phase-change memory cell with MLS capacity.
The paper, "Phase-transition characteristics of Al-Sb phase change materials for phase change memory application," by Xilin Zhou, Liangcai Wu, Zhitang Song, Feng Rao, Kun Ren, Cheng Peng, Sannian Song, Bo Liu, Ling Xu, and Songlin Feng appears in the journal Applied Physics Letters.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
"Soon no one will be laughing when sargeant Wang calls on his platoon to ambush the enemy tanks with swords."
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
you see the Jet what you don't see is the power generator and gas compressor used to generate it.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I think everyone knows that. If anyone were ever to make any kind of lightsaber, I don't think it would be just a hilt from the start.
