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  • Mr. Young also asserted that Intel's technology is incompatible with conventional semiconductor-production processes, so it couldn't be used in a so-called wave-guide detector to work alongside other components on one piece of silicon.

    Intel Cites Advance in Using Silicon in Data Products; Claim Is Challenged 2008

  • Mr. Paniccia said Intel is developing a wave-guide version that could be integrated on a chip.

    Intel Cites Advance in Using Silicon in Data Products; Claim Is Challenged 2008

  • In a paper in the journal Optics Express, researchers from IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., described a device on a silicon chip that controls pulses of light through a device called a wave-guide.

    IBM Makes Chip-Speed Advance 2007

  • He carefully checked the quick-disconnect umbilicals through the docking latch to make sure there was an unbroken flow of gases, liquids, wave-guide energy, and data channels.

    The Best and The Brightest SUSAN WRIGHT 1998

  • From the forward hub reached, far and far, thin and bright as a laser ray, a lance, the wave-guide mast for the shielding force field.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • Low turtle-backed outlines, with long weapons jutting from their sloped forward plates, the barrels built up from coils or rings, some sort of wave-guide or electromagnetic launcher.

    The City Who Fought McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • But a couple of centuries later, they did a complicated wave-guide experiment that proved the jump actually lasted some small fraction of a nanosecond.

    The Forever War Haldeman, Joe 1975

  • And the wave-guide radar followed a large object which had come out of nowhere at all.

    Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935

  • The flickering, wavering, silver-plated wave-guide tube of the radar suddenly steadied.

    Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935

  • He told them, giving them the tape from the wave-guide radar and speaking with strict precision of every event up to the moment of his arrival at Gissell Bay with the children and their artifacts.

    Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935

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