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A belief that solid interfaces are easier to understand than liquid ones shifted emphasis to the former but the subjects are not really separable, and the advances in the one are giving impetus to the other. There is increasing interest in films of biological and of liquid crystalline materials because of the importance of thin films in microcircuitry (computer chips ), there has been in recent years a surge of activity in the study of deposited mono- and multilayers. These Langmuir-Blodgett films are discussed in Section XV-7. 

Vendors such as SUN and MIPS introduced lines of computers based on RISC (reduced iastmction set computer) chips. These computers offered significant performance advantages over the CISC (complex iastmction set computer) minicomputers, at least for CPU-bound work. Although there are stiU active debates about what RISC and what CISC are, the essence of RISC is simplicity. 

Because of the possibility of focusing laser beams, tlrin films can be produced at precisely defined locations. Using a microscope train of lenses to focus a laser beam makes possible tire production of microregions suitable for application in computer chip production. The photolytic process produces islands of product nuclei, which act as preferential nucleation sites for further deposition, and tlrus to some unevenness in tire product film. This is because the subsuate is relatively cool, and therefore tire surface mobility of the deposited atoms is low. In pyrolytic decomposition, the region over which deposition occurs depends on the drermal conductivity of the substrate, being wider the lower the thermal conductivity. For example, the surface area of a deposit of silicon on silicon is nanower dran the deposition of silicon on silica, or on a surface-oxidized silicon sample, using the same beam geomeU y. 

Manufacturing the ultrathin circuitry on this computer chip depends on the organic chemical reactions of special polymers. 

Of course, with so many different final products mixed together, the problem is to identify them. What structure is linked to what bead Several approaches to this problem have been developed, all of which involve the attachment of encoding labels to each polymer bead to keep track of the chemistry each has undergone. Encoding labels used thus far have included proteins, nucleic acids, halogenated aromatic compounds, and even computer chips. 

Combinatorial library, 586 Complex carbohydrate, 974 Computer chip, manufacture of, 505-506... 

Kandilikar SG, Upadhye H (2005) Extending the heat flux limit with enhanced microchannels in direct single-phase cooling of computer chips. In Proceedings of 21st SemiTherm Symposium, San Jose, 15-17 March 2005, pp 8-15... 

Ultraviolet coatings for excimer lasers. These lasers are likely to play a large role in lithography of very high density computer chips,... 

The solid-liquid two-phase flow is widely applied in modern industry, such as chemical-mechanical polish (CMP), chemical engineering, medical engineering, bioengineering, and so on [80,81]. Many research works have been made focusing on the heat transfer or transportation of particles in the micro scale [82-88], In many applications, e.g., in CMP process of computer chips and computer hard disk, the size of solid particles in the two-phase flow becomes down to tens of nanometres from the micrometer scale, and a study on two-phase flow containing nano-particles is a new area apart from the classic hydrodynamics and traditional two-phase flow research. In such an area, the forces between particles and liquid are in micro or even to nano-Newton scale, which is far away from that in the traditional solid-liquid two-phase flow. 

This will extend, and partially replace, the traditional approach to biomedical research that is based on studying living cells or tissues in vitro, or on obtaining data from human volunteers in vivo, by introducing in silico experiments (a term, derived from the currently prevaihng sihcon-based computer chips). 

C04-0145. Silicon tetrachloride is used in the electronics industry to make elemental silicon for computer chips. Silicon tetrachloride is prepared from silicon dioxide, carbon graphite, and chlorine gas. 

Trains that run on frictionless tracks and computer chips smaller than those of the present generation yet faster and with much larger capacities—these are potential applications of room-temperature superconductors. Research groups around the world are developing new materials in hopes of reaching this spectacular goal. 

Silicon s atomic structure makes it an extremely important semiconductor. Highly purified silicon, doped with such elements as boron, phosphorus, and arsenic, is the basic material used in computer chips, transistors, sUicon diodes, and various other electronic circuits and electrical-current switching devices. Silicon of lesser purity is used in metallurgy as a reducing agent and as an alloying element in steel, brass, and bronze. 

Shredded circuit boards. Circuit boards are metal boards that hold computer chips, thermostats, batteries, and other electronic components. Circuit boards can be found in computers, televisions, radios, and other electronic equipment. When this equipment is thrown away, these boards can be removed and recycled. Whole circuit boards meet the definition of scrap metal, and are therefore exempt from hazardous waste regulation when recycled. On the other hand, some recycling processes involve shredding the board. Such shredded boards do not meet the exclusion for recycled scrap metal. In order to facilitate the recycling of such materials, U.S. EPA excluded recycled shredded circuit boards from the definition of solid waste, provided that they are stored in containers sufficient to prevent release to the environment, and are free of potentially dangerous components, such as mercury switches, mercury relays, nickel-cadmium batteries, and lithium batteries. 

The advent of computer chips and laser signal and controlling devices will permit more complex modifications to be carried out on an industrial scale. 

Because of the unique property of some of its compounds, gallium is able to translate a mechanical motion into electrical impulses. This makes it invaluable for manufacturing transistors, computer chips, semiconductors, and rectifiers. 

The elements Si and Ge of group 14 act as semiconductors. A semiconductor is an element that can, to some extent, conduct electricity and heat, meaning it has the properties of both metal and nonmetals. The abihty of semiconductors to transmit variable electrical currents can be enhanced by controlling the type and amount of impurities. This is what makes them act as on-ofF circuits to control electrical impulses. This property is valuable in the electronics industry for the production of transistors, computer chips, integrated circuits, and so on. In other words, how well a semiconductor conducts electricity is not entirely dependent on the pure element itself, but also depends on the degree of its impurities and how they are controlled. 

By far, the most common use for germanium is in the semiconductor and electronics industries. As a semiconductor, germanium can be used to make transistors, diodes, and numerous types of computer chips. It was the first element that could be designed to act as different types of semiconductors for a variety of applications just by adding variable amounts of impurities (doping) to the germanium crystals. 

As an inert gas, it is used as the atmosphere in which to grow sihcon crystals (computer chips). 

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