Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD Ovonics) (Nasdaq: ENER) is releases a new device called the Ovonic Quantum Control, which has the potential to open a whole new field of semiconducting control devices. The Ovonic Quantum Control, based on Stan Ovshinsky’s invention of a unique proprietary all thin-film control device, is based on new physics and has multifunctionality beyond that of transistors. Its nanostructure size, great speed and very high current carrying capacity together with unusual modulation including gain, provide advantages over transistors.
Its multifunctional operational modes include the ability to be turned on by using a small pulse applied to a third terminal in either a latching or non-latching manner. This Ovonic device can scale to sizes smaller than a transistor. These unusual extra degrees of freedom make possible new generations of devices not based upon conventional crystalline physics.
“We believe the functionality of the Ovonic Quantum Control device will enable it to replace transistors and result in new circuitry. It will also be used in the Ovonic Cognitive processor, positioning it to augment and increase performance of today’s computers and potentially become the preferred computational system, either binary or nonbinary. It can also be used in combination with the Ovonic phase change memory, Ovonic threshold switch and the Ovonic cognitive computer device. Therefore all thin-film computers would be made possible,” Stan Ovshinsky said.
This Ovonic Quantum Control device has the potential of low cost through all thin-film fabrication, including using Ovonic roll to roll processes. Ovshinsky’s continuous web, triple junction, roll to roll Ovonic photovoltaic processor already makes 9 miles of thin-film, semiconducting photovoltaics in a single run.
Stan Ovshinsky and Dr. Iris Ovshinsky founded ECD Ovonics in January 1960 to work in energy and information, the twin pillars of the global economy. His premise is that information is encoded energy and both require new science, materials, mechanisms, inventions and technology to bring forth the industries that are needed to open new areas to meet the needs of our global economy. He created the field of amorphous and disordered materials in the middle 1950s and continues his leadership in the field.
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